People who want to use the service come in and give a sample of their drugs to staff. They put it in a machine that can usually show the main components of the drug and the potential risks in minutes.
It’s part of a long-term trend toward studying whether doing less—less surgery, less chemotherapy or less radiation—can help patients live longer and feel better.
We try to create processes in the office to help prevent common bottlenecks that affect access to care for our patients. The one pattern that I can’t seem to mitigate is the fear of vaginal estrogen.
Our team discovered that changes in the morphology of motor neurons in the brain occur early in the disease process. This happens even before any changes in motor function have been seen.
Dr. Jean Seely, head of the breast imaging section at the Ottawa Hospital, called the task force advice ‘bad news’ that will lead to confusion for women in Canada.
