Re-registration for The Practitioner website
The Practitioner website went live on this new platform on 31 December 2009. Throughout February 2010 the site will be undergoing checks and refinement of the content.
'Registered users' on the old site will need to "reset your password" as passwords were not transferred to the new site.
'Paid-up subscribers' to the journal should also "reset your password". Note that the 'subscriber-only' icon will not open to you until after you insert your Web Id, and this will not be possible until at least the 9 February, when the Web ID slot will be on the website's registration form.
Symposium
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Care of the elderly: Diagnosing joint pain in older people
20 Jan 2010
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Care of the elderly: Normal cognitive decline or dementia?
16 Jan 2010
Brain ageing is generally thought of as atrophy, leading to cognitive deficits and functional impairment. However, there are also physiological reductions in cell numbers, connectivity and brain plasticity during the life span that may play an important role in the adjustment of brain function to the changing roles of the individual.
SPECIAL REPORT
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Tackling depression in patients with chronic conditions
15 Jan 2010
For patients with a chronic condition and depression the prognosis is thought to be worse. Comorbid depression is associated with increased pain, greater functional impairment and reduced quality of life. Depressed patients may lack the confidence to self-manage their condition, increasing the risk of long-term complications.
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Identifying patients with the metabolic syndrome
27 Aug 2009
The age-adjusted prevalence of metabolic syndrome was approximately 25% of the US adult population in a national survey published in 2002. In a community-based study in the US, the relative risk of developing diabetes over 11 years among obese patients was increased 10-fold in those with the syndrome, and the risk of developing CVD was increased 2-fold. The prevalence of the syndrome in adults in the UK is of the order of 15-20%.
Editorial
Alcohol consumption decreases risk of BPH
15 Dec 2009
'An association between BPH and metabolic dysfunction has been postulated ...suggesting links between factors that increase the risk of CVD with the risk of BPH.'
Clinical Reviews
This month's CME exercise
CPD exercise December 2009
15 Dec 2009
PHOTOGUIDE
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End of year photo quiz
15 Dec 2009
Test your diagnostic skills - and check the answers by clicking the thumbnail pictures.
HASLAM
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Reading between the lines to make a diagnosis
15 Dec 2009
'He could have looked cross. Instead he just looked through me into the middle distance as his eyes very slowly filled with tears'
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Haslam's view: Our view of lives from the cradle to the grave
27 Aug 2009
'When, 20 years later, I saw him happy and healthy then I knew that particularly stressful day’s work had really been worthwhile.'
100 Years ago
On being tired
15 Dec 2009
'...in this kneeling position, he wrote all his works, the blood having thus to travel to his brain in a horizontal line, instead of upwards against the force of gravity as it would have had to do in the sitting position.'
Pasteur, science and medicine
15 Dec 2009
'The death of his children, the loss of the many brave young heroes in the ambulance tents during the war, the epidemics he had witnessed, all this human suffering weighed upon him and determined him to do his utmost to solve the problems which medical men, working alone, seemed unable to fathom.'
