Quality of life is a difficult concept to define and to measure. An hypothesis is proposed which
suggests that the quality of life measures the difference, or the gap, at a particular period of …

This somewhat belated review enables Risk Communication and Public Health to be located
in its historical setting. A fine collection of essays, it was a pioneering endeavor in the …

Anorexia is a common complaint of patients withcancer at all stages of their disease, 1 and
a random survey of 110 patients attending the department of clinical oncology at Gartnavel …

points Epidemiological techniques, and the data generated from cancer registration, are
powerful in identifying correlations between diseases and clinical outcomes. They do, however, …

In recent years doctors, nurses, and all health care professionals have become increasingly
aware of the complexity of the moral dilemmas that can be created by caring. The central …

The aim of this study was to determine whether a ketogenic diet could decrease nitrogen
losses in cachectic cancer patients and at the same time reduce the supply of glucose for tumor …

Whole body protein turnover and resting energy expenditure are measured simultaneously
in weight stable and weight losing patients with lung (n = 22) or colorectal cancer (n = 38). …

For something which matters so much to us all and is such an important consideration in
medicine it is odd that we have no common language for discussing the hazards of life. 1 2 An …

Three factors are relevant in such communication; the certainty of the risk (the evidence
base), the level of risk (high or low), and the effect of the risk on the individual or population. …

It seems timely to define the purpose of medicine and examine the concept of a profession.
This paper does so in the wider context of health, values, in society, and the need to involve …