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EHPnet: PAHO Communicable Disease Unit by Environmental Health Posted Sun 31 Aug 2008 9:00pm EHPnet: PAHO Communicable Disease Unit Formal Correction: This article has been formally corrected...: Dooley EE 2008. EHPnet: PAHO Communicable Disease Unit. Environ Health Perspect 116:A379-A379. doi:10.1289/ehp.116-a379b http://www.paho.org/english/ad/dpc/dpc Read on »

Alzheimer's Disease -- Communication Skills and Coping with Behavior (1) by Bob DeMarco Patient Expert

Posted Mon 13 Sep 2010 10:23am difficult to change your own behavior. It is not easy to develop the new communication skill set that is needed to deal effectively with Alzheimer's disease. It is necessary... on new coping strategies, and developing new "norms" of behavior in order to communicate effectively with a person that has Alzheimer's disease. When Alzheimer's caregivers Read on »

Learning How to Communicate with Someone Suffering From Alzheimer's Disease by Bob DeMarco Patient Expert

Posted Wed 19 Jan 2011 8:22pm As I thought about this I came to a simple conclusion. Instead of trying to change Alzheimer's World, instead of... Comment, share, react. Read on »

Recent News on Organ Donation Disease Transmission by Donate Life Illinois .. Healthy Living Professional

Posted Tue 26 Aug 2008 4:32pm provided through this medical/social history helps identify risk factors for potential disease transmission. These risk factors were communicated to those transplant centers... Network in response to the recent news regarding disease transmission from an organ donor . Official statement from Gift of Hope: Late last month, Gift of Hope Read on »

A molecular switch controls interspecies prion disease transmission in mice by Terry S. Patient Expert

Posted Mon 14 Jun 2010 11:47am disease transmission in mice Christina J. Sigurdson1,2,3, K. Peter R. Nilsson3, Simone Hornemann4, Giuseppe Manco3, Natalia Fernández-Borges5, Petra Schwarz3, Joaquín Castilla5,6... transmission Prion diseases are lethal neurodegenerative disorders that include Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE; commonly known Read on »

Alzheimer's Disease Tip Communication and Socialization (Part 1) by Bob DeMarco Patient Expert

Posted Wed 20 Oct 2010 12:48pm was doing before Alzheimer's disease.... By Bob DeMarco Alzheimer's Reading Room For us, communication and socialization go hand in hand. I am not using the clinical definition of socialization here. Instead, I am describing a continuing process that leads to the establishment of norms of behavior and communication in the Alzheimer's disease environment. I think Read on »

Did you Change the Way you Dealt with a Person with Alzheimer's Disease Over Time? – Communicating When They No Longer K by Bob DeMarco Patient Expert

Posted Tue 13 Jul 2010 9:37am knows we love her. She is happy. It doesn’t matter how or if we’re related. I changed the way I communicate with her. I was a constant reminder of what she could no longer Read on »

Alzheimer's Disease Tip Communication and Socialization (Part 2) by Bob DeMarco Patient Expert

Posted Fri 22 Oct 2010 6:44am Disease Tip Communication and Socialization (Part 1) , I started writing about how communication and socialization go hand in hand. For Dotty and me, I made a simple decision early on -- we would continue to live our life as we always had. This decision forced me to take an inventory of the activities that Dotty engaged in before Alzheimer's disease Read on »

An Infectious Disease Walks Into a Bar - Bartender Says We Don’t Serve Infectious Diseases here – You’re Not a by Medical Quack Patient Expert

Posted Sat 10 Apr 2010 1:47pm video. Good work on relating the terminology in a very funny way! BD “An infectious disease walks into a bar. The bartender says, ‘We don’t serve infectious diseases here,’ and the infectious disease says, ‘Well, you’re not a very good host.’” Ba-dum-chi. If you enjoyed that joke and fancy yourself a fellow science geek, you’ll love this funny video by science Read on »

Ontario Burden of Infectious Diseases Study by Jennifer J. Patient Expert

Posted Thu 16 Dec 2010 12:00am Do you wash your hands? In Canada, a new study on the burden of infectious diseases tells us that nearly 5,000 Ontarians die each year from these diseases. The impact to the healthcare system from infectious diseases is one-quarter that of all cancers. Dr. Jeff Kwong 2008-10 Ontario Burden of Infectious Diseases Study (ONBoIDS) The Top 10 Read on »