Right to bill may affect amount of tobacco counselling by MDs.

Aplastic anemia evolving to myelodysplastic syndrome and later to a lymphoproliferative malignancy in a treated case of carcinoma breast: A case report emphasizing the importance of PET-CT in cutaneous T cell lymphoma

Although aplastic anemia (AA) and myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) are separate entities with different management, distinction between the two can be difficult on morphological basis due to hypocellularity of bone marrow. MDS is one of the serious complications of AA. Karyotyping is definitive in the diagnosis of MDS. Better and robust investigations like 18F-Fluoro-deoxy-Glucose Posi...

Evaluation of the Patients, Doctors and Nurses View Points about Patient Bill of Rights in Rasht Public Hospitals

Background & Objective: With the aim to clarify the rights of the patients on the basis of medical ethic norms, Patient Bill of Rights in five categories was developed in Iran for the first time, during 2002. The main objective of this study was to determine the views of patients, physicians and nurses about this aspect of medical ethics and its necessary to comply in Rasht public hospitals. Ma...

Using radon risk to motivate smoking reduction: evaluation of written materials and brief telephone counselling.

OBJECTIVE Radon and cigarette smoking have synergistic effects on lung cancer, even when radon concentrations are relatively low. Working through an electric utility company, we sought to reach smoking households with low radon concentrations and motivate smoking cessation or prohibiting smoking in the home. DESIGN Eligible homes (n = 714) were randomised to receive: (1) the Environmental Pro...

Satisfying Patient's Rights according to Patient Bill of Rights in the Internal Medicine Departments of Ghaem & Imam Reza Hospitals, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

Introduction: This study was aimed to assess the rate of respecting patients’ rights according to Patient Bill of Rights among hospitalized patients in the internal departments of Ghaem & Imam Reza hospitals, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on patients admitted to the internal medicine wards of Ghaem and Imam Reza hospitals of Mashhad. ...

Human Rights and the Tobacco Industry: An Unsuitable Alliance