The obesity epidemic raises important and complex issues for clinicians and policy-makers, such as what clinical and public health measures will be most effective and most ethically-sound. While Nir Eyal’s analysis of these issues is very helpful and while he correctly concludes that “conditioning the very aid that patients need in order to become healthier on success in becoming healthier” is ...

background: many of health system services are done in clinical counseling. a patient’s expectation of clinical consultation and physician office visits is to obtain diagnostic-remedial results, while such an expectation can be fulfilled only through an active relationship between the doctor and the patient. the aim of this study is to evaluate the quality of doctor- patient interaction in an e...

*Reader, Department of Conservative Dentistry & Endodontics, Rajarajeshwari Dental College& Hospital, Bangalore, Karnataka, India **Reader, Department of Public Health Dentistry, Rajarajeshwari Dental College & Hospital, Bangalore, Karnataka, India ***Reader, Department of Conservative Dentistry & Endodontics, Rajarajeshwari Dental College& Hospital, Bangalore, Karnataka, India †Senior Lecturer...

BACKGROUND In the FIRE-3 trial, overall survival (OS) was significantly longer in patients treated with FOLFIRI plus cetuximab (C-mab) than in those treated with FOLFIRI plus bevacizumab (Bev), but progression-free survival (PFS) was not significantly different. This may be associated with the deepness of response (DpR) in patients treated with FOLFIRI plus C-mab. We aimed to evaluate the relat...