Pathology

... Pathology as a medical specialty Physicians who practice pathology diagnose and characterize disease in living patients by examining biopsies and ... Main article: Anatomical pathology Anatomical pathologists diagnose disease and gain other clinically significant information through the ...

Hematopathology

... looks at peripheral blood smears , bone marrow aspirates and biopsies , lymph nodes , and other tissues, and uses his/her expertise to diagnose diseases such as lymphomas and leukemias. The hematopathologist uses traditional microscopy to look at the specimen , but also relies on ...

Sutton's law

... Sutton's law states that in attempting to diagnose a problem, one should first do the experiment that can confirm the most likely diagnosis. It is taught in medical schools to guide new doctors in ...

Telephone Triage

... monitor blood pressures and weights for home health clients, uterine activity for high risk mothers and intermittent cardiac arrhythmias to identify, diagnose and treat some cardiac problems. Telehealth will subsume telephone triage, with the addition of visual display of patients from home, ...

Ultradian

... stress and other environmental factors. Researchers are working to understand the brain chemistry basis of mood states in an effort to better diagnose and treat Bipolar Disorder. This research shows the promise of finding biological determinants for Ultradian mood states. ["Acute, rapid-cycle ...