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Request cardiology specialist to provide details regarding Shone's Syndrome / Complex in details Partha 11:42, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
I would like to suggest that on amputation-related articles that are stubs, the stub should read "This amputation-related article is a stub", et cetera, et cetera. Not only will this be more accurate, it will also be quite humorous :) Jtrainor 11:39, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
Would someone competent in immunology please look at this article. It has a troublesome history. DGG (talk) 00:07, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
There is a discussion on Talk:Psychoactive_drug - a Venn diagram on Psychoactive_drug which some editors feel constitutes OR and is incorrect. Would be good to get some pharmacologists and or medicos in on it. cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 11:43, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
I just finished doing a cleanup on neurocardiology. I am not an expert, but I suspect this topic is more alternative medicine than medicine in general. I just wanted to let your project know since it is qualified as a stub class in your project so it can be categorized properly. DLPanther 15:35, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
((Osteopathic medicine)) I've created an infobox for the Osteopathic medicine articles, to help pull them together and ease navigation. I would appreciate any feedback on making this box as functional and well-formed as possible.
I redid the layout a bit, to improve the look. Feedback? TU Hopping T 22:08, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi can anyone tell me from what date coccygectomy became standard practise in the management of SCT? I know the Altmann typing of SCT began in 71/72 but when did total resection of the coccyx become regular protocol?Crinkles 23:23, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
I have not read much of the early literature, but the current standard of surgical treatment (including coccygectomy) is described in its entirety in a 1964 review article. So it must predate that article. --Una Smith 19:46, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
Can anyone give me details re coccygectomy in adults? --Una Smith 19:46, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
Hello. I was wondering if WikiProject Medicine would be interested in collaborating with the film project on Sicko (film). We really need as many experts as possible to keep this article honest and on topic. Please let me know if this is acceptable. Thank you. —Viriditas | Talk 10:04, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
Acidosis is long enough not to qualify as a stub, but I feel that we could still add quite a bit to the article on this basic medical concept. Thanks. -- 201.19.72.37 14:05, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
Eubulides, Colin, and Tim Vickers have substantially restored the de-featured autism article, and work has begun on Causes of autism and Heritability of autism. Additional help appreciated. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:50, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
The ATLS stub contains information I consider to be inacurate, although I might be wrong.
It states that ATLS is for paramedics and other advanced practitioners, where I thought it was for MD/DOs only, although other paramedic-level practitioners can AUDIT the course (ie attend but not get certified).
It states that BTLS is for EMT-Bs (going along with the first point above), where it is in fact for all EMTs (basics, intermediates/specialists, and paramedics).
I'm new to Wikipedia (and love it, BTW!), so sorry if I'm not completely protocol-compliant. I am, however, a paramedic and RN and think I have the above correct.
Sprender 16:37, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
I just added the Aortitis article, anyone with information is encouraged to visit. :) Navou banter 18:46, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
I just create a template for toxicology and poisoning: ((toxicology)). However, I am not exactly knowledgeable in the field, and would like someone competent to review for any obvious problems before I unleash it in articlespace. Circeus 00:32, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
The article Cephalometry is currently a stub. Anyone with a working knowledge, (and anyone else) nudged over there. By the way, from what I can tell, everyone is doing excellent work here. Navou banter 03:26, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
I'm looking for kind volunteers who could help me maintaining Portal:Medicine because I have no time to edit the articles because of the maintainance jobs. Thank you in advance! It'd be an easy task and I'd help a lot... NCurse work 19:04, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
Autism has gone through peer review, reached Good Article status, and is this week's selected article on the Medicine Portal. It is currently rated GA-Class in WikiProject Medicine. Can someone please check it and see whether it's A class? The plan is to nominate it as a featured article fairly soon, and other pairs of eyes before then would be appreciated. Thanks. Eubulides 20:23, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
Autism is getting very little feedback at FAC. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:52, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
Is this a page that we should consider looking over under the purview of WikiProject medicine? I'm asking because I'm not sure. On the one hand, psychic surgery is clearly not a medical procedure. On the other hand, however, an inquiring visitor may not know or understand this. Antelan talk 13:09, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
I came across the article Hand Hygiene and it looks like it could really use the attention of someone knowledgable. Would anyone here be able to lend a hand? Thanks. Deli nk 23:38, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
Hey all. Noticed on the recent Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Medicine articles by quality log that by adding med articles as a "list" class removes them from the med project (even though the actual med tag is still there!) see Talk:List of subjects in Gray's Anatomy: Alphabetical: Z as an example and then note how on the log it says that it was 'removed'. Anyone with more wiki/tech skills able to fix this problem? Thanks...petze 14:46, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
Here is a new one... Lymphocytic Interstitial Pneumonia. Regards, Navou banter 22:01, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
Just to get peoples attention... i added a comment on the anatomy wikiproject talk page regarding the ratting/tagging/ of anatomy type articles and if anyone happens to be intrested, you are all more than welcome to give ur opinions/comments/critisizm(sp?) about my opinion on anatomy classifying/rating... I figure I ask here as some people who might also be in the anatomy wikiproject, are also viewers of the medicine wikiproject but might not look at the anatomy wikiproject as often...Thanks for your time.petze 07:38, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
Further contributions required at the discussion of Morgellons disease. Thanks. Axl 09:13, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
Hello, this is slightly outside the scope of this WikiProject but any help would be appreciated. Category:Health risks has been proposed for deletion at WP:CFD, and the expertise of members of this project would be appreciated in the discussion of what the best action to take is. Thanks for any input, Kurieeto 16:12, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
The original version was fair-use and not free. If you can help at all in rewriting the article, please do so. Thank you! --Hemlock Martinis 18:56, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
Would someone be able to add (or find) a reference for some of these articles (unless one has already been added recently):
I was assessing them and noticed that they had no ref and thought it would be good (suggested from someone else ;) ) to post them here as someone from this wikiproject would be able to find refs for em easily... Thanks...petze 06:48, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi Folks, I hope this is the right place to ask. Balano-preputial lamina is a (rather perplexing) stub that cites no sources. As far as I can tell, the phrase is used by a handful of lobbyist websites, but only two reliable sources even use the term (both, oddly, are journal letters written by a lawyer on behalf of the same lobbyist group), and neither define it. Nor have I had any luck in textbooks. I'm trying to work out if the term actually exists in a meaningful sense - has anyone come across a reference anywhere? Jakew 22:44, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
I've begun working on articles related to pregnancy and childbirth, and have found that this is a topic sorely in need of additional editors' help. I would like to propose creating a task force for pregnancy-related articles within WP:MED. I envision the scope as encompassing clinical and preclinical subjects (assuming I understand those terms correctly), as well as what I call "experiential" subjects (for example, see this article) -- that is, subjects that are not strictly medical but which are nevertheless related to pregnancy and/or childbirth.
I have never been involved in the creation of a WikiProject or task force, so would appreciate any bureaucratic or technical help that might be offered, as well. --Ginkgo100talk 14:35, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
I initially suspected this article to be a POV fork. I have since worked with its author to resolve some of those issues, but the article still strikes me as a pro-osteopathic medicine fluff piece more suitable to a trade journal than to an encyclopedia. Even now, the original author is adding in details about osteopaths' practice rights in foreign countries (i.e., explicitly out of the scope of the title of the article in the United States). Beyond the first couple of sections with pro-osteopathic pronouncements by the AMA & AMSA and the discussion of the 1960s turf wars between osteo and traditional medicine, the remainder of the material doesn't even seem to fit with the subject of the article. I would appreciate it if others would take a look at this article and suggest ways to proceed. Thanks, Antelan talk 17:52, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
OK. You raise a valid point. However, I hope you will AGF here. In fact, my claim is correct though poorly sourced. The source I cited is one piece of a much broader conversation within the AMA about osteopathic/allopathic discrimination. The "fees for medical students" was one outcome of an investigation. It's not always easy to cite a source that is readily available on the web for AMA in-house policy documents / discussion. I'm trying. They are published and publicly available, but not always on the web.
The conversation expanded to discuss discrimination in general, and DO membership within the AMA. As indicated by "G-635.053 AMA Membership Strategy: Osteopathic Medicine", the AMA is now actively seeking DO membership. In "H-405.989 Physicians and Surgeons," the AMA demonstrates it advocates for equality between MDs&DOs in regards to the use of professional titles "physician" and "surgeon". Touro OsteopathicFreak T 23:05, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
"Osteopathic medical schools: After more than a century of often bitterly contentious relationships between the osteopathic and allopathic medical professions, we now find ourselves living at a time when osteopathic and allopathic graduates are both sought after by many of the same residency programs; are in most instances both licensed by the same licensing boards; are both privileged by many of the same hospitals; and are found in appreciable numbers on the faculties of each other's medical schools."
— President, Association of American Medical Colleges, 2005
The history of this conflict is real. People have written articles on these topics, including the specific details that you mention - Harvard's CME course as well as Harvard's non-CME OMM course for medical students (New Physician, Jan 2007), the changing attitude of the AMA towards osteopathic physicians and graduates, the new rules about fees is just one small example that illustrates the point. In both these cases, I have articles to cite, but they are not on the web. So, in the interest of verifiability I haven't cited them and have tried to steer towards web based sources whenever possible, but that has proved a bit limiting. This conversation seems hypercritical.Touro OsteopathicFreak T 04:29, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
I was inappropriately quoted by the author. OMM can be used in asthma (without medicines should not have been said). We will try to facilitate a printed correction (jbhattbhangra)
I am working on lung cancer with the intention of submitting it for "featured article" status soon. I can vouch for the factual accuracy of the content. I have checked every reference (most of which I inserted). However I require more assistance to improve the quality of the prose, i.e. to make it compelling. This is especially important in the lead section. I am grateful for your assistance. Axl 18:02, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Now that autism has been restored to status, I'm hoping a (third) featured article review of Asperger syndrome can be avoided. I've put some work into cleaning up references and restoring a summarizing lead (as in the featured version); it's come along enough that the cleanup tag could be removed), but the article still needs attention. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:01, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act recently achieved Good Article status. I've nominated it for featured article status - please see Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act. Comments would be welcomed. -- ChrisO 22:35, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
Is there any template for using when placing an article under the scope of this WikiProject? I couldn't find one Jennylen 20:47, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
In the spirit of the TrueOrigins ((histref)) template, I've created a Medicine ((Medref)) template for medically-related articles that are missing sources or verification. Please let me know if you think this is helpful; if it can be improved; or if it should be deleted. Thanks, Antelan talk 22:04, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
Great! JennyLen 22:13, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
Since my last post got no response awhile back, I'll give it ago again: psychic surgery - is it something we're concerned about? "... it is performed by psychic doctors or psychic surgeons" This strikes me as phrasing that makes the procedure sound medical. I tried to note that these are not medical professionals, but I was rebuffed with this edit summary: Insert this back if you have a source that say no "psychic" surgeons have medical degrees If Wikiproject:Medicine is OK with this article as it stands, I'll go ahead and unwatch it, but I'd like to see what you all think. Antelan talk 07:32, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
Hello, I am a member of the WikiProject Council. I wanted to know if you may consider placing the banner ((Inter-Project Cooperation)) on your project's page? You may include there projects you cooperate with on a routinely basis. By doing this you may be contributing to inter-project cooperation and understanding. Thank you Daoken 21:58, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
I wonder if it could be added some section in the project's page where members can find all the templates when they need them ? I don't know how to do it but I could like new members have access to those resources JennyLen 13:28, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Please, give me some feedback on this section. This is the first version. Should we describe how and when to use the templates or it's enough? Should we include infoboxes in a similar form, or just list them. It'll definitely be useful for beginners and experienced users as well. NCurse work 08:27, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
It's a Belgian psychiatrist. We are arguing currently in the French wiki if we should maintain him in the wiki.
The problem is that someone said that he was well known, and said that he was truly known in the english-speaking world like in Atlanta, Houston or Miami.
And I think that, this person is one of his friend or relative. So I wonder if people, here (in the english wiki) know him and can bring argument that his work as a psychiatrist is notorious and secondary sources have been produced from his work.
There is a strong suspection of fake. But we have no doubt that he is a psychiatrist and has made some publications. Most of the primary sources are not reliable because he has his own publishing house 'Socrates Promarex' and we can't find secondary sources about his work. And primary source seems to be Wikipedia.
Pppswing 10:56, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
I've nominated List of medical schools in the United Kingdom for featured list status here. Feel free to comment. CloudNine 11:14, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
I'm seeking consensus at MOSNUM talk for a change in the wording to allow contributors, by consensus only, to use unconverted metrics in scientific articles. Your opinions are invited. Tony 15:18, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
The article Necrotizing fasciitis could use a review by medical professionals for accuracy and professionalism. See also comments at Talk:Necrotizing_fasciitis. Thanks. -- 201.19.11.75 02:36, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
I would appreciate any input this project may have regarding the reliability of sources recently added to the water fluoridation article. The specific questions are found here: Talk:Water fluoridation#RfC. Thanks. · jersyko talk 13:29, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi! I was hoping someone at this WikiProject could help me with this question: What is the formal medical term for getting the wind knocked out of you? The article doesn't say. —Remember the dot (talk) 21:50, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
Searching the web, it appears to me that "temporary paralysis of the diaphragm" (already in the article) is the formal medical term. --Una Smith 20:00, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
I think these two articles should be merged. How would we go about that? Thanks. --Afromcbenny 07:02, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
This article needs serious review for NPOV and WP:V. Vaccine controversy is quickly becoming a soapbox against vaccination. Djma12 (talk) 23:36, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
I was just looking over MCV, MCH, and MCHC and was thinking about merging these three into one article called Red blood cell indices as they are all related stubs. I don't think there is much potential for expansion for these articles, and I doubt anyone would object to the merge. Whether or not these should be merged, there definitely should be an article specifically for the red blood cell indices. As I see it, there are 3 options: a disambiguation page for the 3 articles, an overview page with ((main)) links to the 3 articles, or a merged page. I prefer a merge, but wanted others' opinions on the matter before I took action. I haven't put merge tags on the pages, as I'm sure not many people are watching those pages, and those who are probably are watching this page too. --Scott Alter 06:03, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
The Surgery article seems to be woefully inadequate in describing even the fundamentals of modern surgery. Is anybody working on expanding this article? H Padleckas 09:48, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
I have improved a lot this article in the last month and I´m thinking of nominating it for good article. I have asked for a scientific peer review; but I would appreciate any comments on how to improve it both in contents and style. The discussion page for the peer review is: Wikipedia:Scientific peer review/Therapies for multiple sclerosis —Preceding unsigned comment added by Garrondo (talk • contribs) 08:48, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
WikiProject Pharmacology is in the organizing phase of starting a Pharmacology Collaboration of the Week, in an effort to improve the many drug and pharmacology-related articles on wikipedia. If you're interested in helping, please visit WP:RxCOTW! Dr. Cash 20:38, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
I am trying to gauge what the interest would be for a WP:ONCOLOGY category. This would be under the broader auspices of WP:MED, along the lines of WP:RENAL and WP:Rads. It would address standards of care and best practices in surgical, medical, and radiation oncology, along with maintaining and editing cancer related articles.
If this is something you are interested in, please sign underneath the relevant section at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals#Oncology
Djma12 (talk) 23:09, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
Hay Fever could a review by professionals. In particular, the section "Medication" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hay_fever#Medication makes various un-cited recommendations for treatment. -- 201.19.15.178 12:40, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
Be advised that there is an AfD for GPnotebook, which is "an online encyclopaedia of medicine that provides an immediate reference resource for clinicians worldwide". This a potentially worthy article, but lacking sufficient independent evidence of notability to satisfy WP:ORG. I have recomended that the article be redirected to Diagnosis, but you may wish to express an alternative opinion here. --Gavin Collins 21:23, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
User:Caesarjbsquitti, an editor with an strong interest in a variety of unorthodox ideas and medical theories, has made a number of apparently questionable edits to various articles about mental illness. Could someone please review these?
It might also be instructive, as part of this process, to read their user page to get a better idea of the full breadth and depth of their interests: according to this, they are, for example, also the "Wrighter, [sic] researcher who discovered a negative side to truth, anti-truths, and wrighter of (The Jesus Christ Code. The LIGHT: The Rainbow of Truth. to be released 2007 © ) expanding the definition of 'truth' , 'half-truth' and 'lie' together with a new philosophy "Thinking In Color©", "The third side of the coin" and the 'wave theory of truth'." (emphasis theirs) -- Karada 16:34, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
I am nominating Lung cancer for featured article status. Please leave your comments here. Thanks. Axl 17:18, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
I have nominated the article as a good article candidate. I would be thankful to anybody who who helped in the good article review (See: Wikipedia:Good article candidates If you have not contributed significantly to this article, feel free to evaluate it according to the good article criteria and then pass or fail the article as outlined on the candidates page. --Garrondo 13:27, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
I have a few article requests:
For detailed information about this topic, see: Isabella Kardys, Jan Kors, Irene van der Meer, Albert Hofman, Deirdre van der Kuip and Jacqueline Witteman, "Spatial QRS-T Angle Predicts Cardiac Death in a General Population," in European Heart J. (2003) 24:1357-1364. (Note that if I had understood the science of ECG interpretation, I would have written the Wikipædia articles myself – so please write the articles in language that is intelligible to laypeople.) 68.49.208.76 05:39, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
On Talk:List of health topics: Si-So, W.marsh has asked for those pages to be moved out of the main namespace space. Is this project able/willing to take the pages, or should I move it under WP:MISSING ? John Vandenberg 07:39, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
Sick building syndrome was an article I found while working on multiple chemical sensitivity and Clinical ecology. It currently requires a substantial amount of work, as its only citation is to an air-filtration company. Djma12 (talk) 00:06, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
As part of the Notability wikiproject, I am trying to sort out whether Windber Research Institute is notable enough for an own article. I would appreciate an expert opinion. For details, see the article's talk page. If you can spare some time, please add your comments there. Thanks! --B. Wolterding 17:50, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
Food Additives and Hyperactivity, Again! mentions the Feingold diet article. Please look into the concerns raised in that news article. Thanks. -- Jreferee (Talk) 05:23, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
I have created a new category, Oncology navigation templates, and populated it with the relevant templates I could find. I think it is time to create navigation templates for tumors by location, rather than try to put all the necessary cross-referencing into each and every tumor page. Please help! You don't have to know all about tumors; the tumor pages themselves provid an outline for the navigation templates. --Una Smith 16:14, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
I've noticed that this topic is very inadequate, and have started to update it.--File Éireann 20:23, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
The article sole (foot) has been tagged as part of this wikiproject, as well as part of anatomy - shouldn't it be only under anatomy? There's nothing medical in the article, as it is, it's simply about the body part. Kuronue | Talk 01:43, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
If an article such as homeopathy or chiropractic (samples only) were to become featured, what category would it go in at WP:FA? Right now, we have Biology and medicine; would they go there, or would another category be needed? If so, what would it be called? And would these kinds of articles be subject to WP:MEDMOS ? How do we define "Medicine" articles? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:32, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
Note: this has arisen out of a dispute over the placement of Parapsychology in the Wikipedia:Featured articles page. IMO, both of Sandy's examples would go under Medicine. There's a healer-patient relationship, regardless of whether one believes in the theory behind it. I do think it is time to take the knife to the "Biology, medicine and psychology" category. I know there's overlap, but there is no clean way of splitting everything. Someone just needs to make a few arbitrary decisions. Blue whales and Tourette syndrome. You wouldn't find them together in the library. Colin°Talk 22:14, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
Would someone please comment on this discussion. It appears to hinge on one reference in NEJM that has been added recently. Does that reference make this topic notable and hence kept? --Bduke 23:49, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
Needs discussing. David Ruben Talk 00:49, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
The veganism article is a low-importance medicine article, currently listed as a GA. The GA review made this suggestion:
Any efforts to review and consolidate material, place it in more appropriate articles, find new sources, etc, would be greatly appreciated. KellenT 11:13, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
A person is attempting to include, under the title of 'Ethnomedical Uses' claims that oleander extract, called "oleander soup" can be used to treat cancer, hepatitis-C, psoriasis, HIV and other conditions. I'm not sufficiently qualified to evaluate these claims professionally - can anyone help, please? WLDtalk|edits 12:05, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
Came across this article recently, which seems to have been largely created by User:Mcorazao as an annotated list of some papers related to Low-carbohydrate diets. As an outsider to what I'm sure is a heated debate, IMO it feels like this stuff should be spread among the History and References sections of the Lcd article. But I figured I'd take the coward's way out - tag it to this Project and point it out to you guys to debate :-) No doubt that WP:EFFORT might be considered a factor, but I'm instinctively wary of article names that are that long..... FlagSteward 18:48, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
There's a dispute going on over at talk:smoking where the user Nacaats is fiercly disputing the neutrality of the article by claiming that it misrepresents the health hazards of smoking in favor of the opinions of anti-smoking lobbyists. The sources cited are being challenged through fact-tagging, insertion of much vaguer wording and references to FORCES International Liberty News Network.
Though I haven't studied this issue in excuciating detail, my impression is that there is a widely held consensus about the general health hazards of inhaling the smoke of incompletely combusted substances in the medical community. Could someone who knows the issue better try to help resolve this conflict? Right now, the article is protected due to edit warring.
Peter Isotalo 08:58, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
Lung cancer has been languishing at FAC for weeks, with little input from medical folk. I guess Raul should go ahead and promote it as is. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:46, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi folks, I found this article to be a loose collection of topics, some of which require some leap of logic to assail against the profession as a whole. While each in of themselves is worthy of a (hopefully) balanced article, I believe tying them all together is not appropriate for WP on the basis of WP:NOT. cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 14:33, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
hello wikipedians! this is sairamnanda.i am a 2nd year medical student.i joined wiki to get my doubts clarified and get knowledge regarding the medical subjects..i am a new comer to wiki..so any pls suggest how to post doubts regarding a article..how to discuss a point... thanx a lot... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sairamnanda (talk • contribs) 06:56, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
Since there's a little bit of crossover in the topics between WP:PHARM and WP:MED, I thought I'd let y'all know that Paracetamol has recently been selected as the third Pharmacology Collaboration of the Week. It's currently already a featured article, but was promoted back in 2004, so it's probably well past due for a little refresher and improvement (else it goes to WP:FAR). If anyone wants to help out, please feel free.
Last week's collaboration was muscle relaxant, and was improved considerably. It currently awaits review for Good Article status.
Cheers! Dr. Cash 02:55, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
There's a disagreement at Talk:Muscle_contraction#Eccentric_redux, is anyone available and knowledgeable enough to put in a comment on the accuracy of the section and other changes? WLU 23:56, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
It has been mentioned that the content of the Cancer Cluster section of this article seems to rely entirely on one source. In fact, a recent article in a local newspaper here writes
"Arsenic in the water, tungsten in the air, polonium in wells, underground atomic testing to the east - all have been reported by the media. The entry for "Fallon, Nevada" on Wikipedia, a popular online encyclopedia, mentions the leukemia cluster. It's no wonder some outsiders unfortunately perceive our community as unhealthy."
If you have access to any further information regarding this subject which might be relevant to this article regarding this subject, such as perhaps contrary opinions and/or further research, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. John Carter 15:01, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
There is a deletion review of the deleted article Psychatric abuse at:
Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2007 October 5#Psychiatric abuse
cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 09:53, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
A great deal of information in the article "Tremor" was apparently taken from http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/tremor/tremor.htm -- The National Institute on Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
This source is never cited.
137.155.128.127 02:39, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
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If anyone has a lot of free time (he he) can you help out at Talk:Homeopathy? Thanks. ScienceApologist 16:22, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
Are articles like Hospital, or other medical institutions under the scope of this WikiProject? Because the article Private hospital seems inadequate. kawaputratorque 02:41, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
Could someone please look at this article? It's been written by a single author, who's clearly an expert in the subject but a newbie on Wikipedia. The article needs all kinds of style work. Thanks for looking into it. Shalom (Hello • Peace) 13:02, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
I've added project template to 2000+ articles by creating list from category pages and need help in assessing them. Instructions are detailed in asseessment page. Unassessed articles can be found here(quality) and here(priority). Bot generated assessment logs are available but there is a backlog of 3-4 days. Project template now has script for auto-stubbing (for bot and semibot operation). My guess is there are 10,000+ medicine related articles yet to be assessed and I am trying to find and tag them. --Countincr ( t@lk ) 20:49, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
In trying to clear some of these unassessed pages, I've run across a few that I'm not sure should be WPMED at all. Molera is the most recent one. It's a bit of anatomy on a dog. Does WPMED include everything that also belongs to 'WikiProject Veterinary medicine'? Or should we kill the WPMED tag on this one? WhatamIdoing 18:22, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
Would someone (or several someones) at this project take a look at the article assessments on Talk:Glossary of alternative medicine and Talk:Race please? It's not clear to me why these are top-level importance when things like Public health and Nurse and Poverty and Health care and Surgery aren't. WhatamIdoing 05:38, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
I just wanted to say that I definitely don't think these two articles should be merged. The issue of food fortification is independent of supplements as one is a public health policy while the other is a personal lifestyle choice! Emma. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.117.143.33 (talk) 10:45, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
I have nominated the article for featured article after working on it after it become a GA. anybody thinks the article is good enough please vote for it. Any comments for improvement will also be welcomed.Garrondo 14:01, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
Hello. I have come across an article about Neurorehabilitation while patrolling new pages for COI creations (this article appears to to have been created by the Guttmann Institute in Barcelona who specialise in neurorehabilitation). I have no idea whether this is a credible article or not. Would you have a look at it please. Thanks. --Malcolmxl5 11:29, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
I thing that an organized anatomy section is essential. I will be adding to this, hopefully some type of sub page can be created to quickly find all related info... Lou.kirk 18:39, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
I suggest that allopathic be merged or redirected into allopathic medicine. A discussion is [here]. Antelan talk 05:18, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
Mess of COI edits by involved parties (see WP:COI/N#Lipodissolve): needs some regular medical contributors. Gordonofcartoon 15:31, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
At Infertility (in this section) and Abortion (see footnote), a user claims that there is an established causal effect between induced abortions and subsequent infertility, risk of miscarriage, and sterility. I have found three references which state that there is not a causal link between abortion and infertility. I would appreciate it if interested parties with appropriate backgrounds would weigh in on this issue. Please visit Talk:Infertility#Abortion and infertility to join in the discussion. Thank you. Photouploaded 18:05, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
Check out this interactive clinical case with referenced case discussion I just created on Wikiversity. This is part of the Wikiversity School of Medicine. Everyone is invited to improve this learning module, of course.
--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 00:08, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
This Scientific Peer Review project can hardly be called successful. While there have been a steady but small flow of articles submitted for review, the actual reviews have been either non-existent or in no real way different from those done through the standard Wikipedia:Peer review process. Some editors will recall that the project was started with an enthusiastic discussion about identifying expert reviewers through an elected board. Unfortunately as time went by, it became clear there was no consensus on whether we had a board, or on how it was to be set up or on what it was supposed to do. There was also a lack of consensus on what "sciences" we were covering, and on many other aspects. In the end we sort of lapsed into a minimal review process which has staggered on for about 18 months. I think it is time we decided what to do about the project. Unless people can come up with a new way forward and enthusiastically implement it, I think we have to declare that this project be no longer active in any sense and that editors should ask for review at WP:PR. I am posting this on the talk pages of the major Science WikiProjects. Please feel free to publicize it elsewhere. Please add you comments at Wikipedia talk:Scientific peer review#Is this inactive?. --Bduke 01:51, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
On WT:CLINMED we are discussing the need for this WikiProject to be merged with WP:CLINMED. I strongly encourage everyone to participate in this discussion, as we are simultaneously discussing other important issues, like WP:MCOTW and so on. JFW | T@lk 20:35, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
I was wondering if someone with more knowledge of the subject could take a look at the gestational hypertension article. I am a student nurse and the facilities in our health authority have phased out the terms pre-eclampsia and eclampsia and the definition of PIH or GH being used includes proteinuria. I am told this is based on EB research. 198.166.58.153 (talk) 05:24, 19 November 2007 (UTC) katie
Is Black band disease really appropriate for WPMED? It's a disease that strikes coral in the ocean. If you have an opinion, please either rate the article on its talk page, or delete the WPMED template. WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:25, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
Please see Talk:Medical education for a question on use of case study. The question arises from a convergence in Law and Medicine education 100 years ago, and involves training in diagnosis.Rgdboer (talk) 01:59, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
Request cardiology specialist to provide details regarding Shone's Syndrome / Complex in details Partha 11:42, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
I would like to suggest that on amputation-related articles that are stubs, the stub should read "This amputation-related article is a stub", et cetera, et cetera. Not only will this be more accurate, it will also be quite humorous :) Jtrainor 11:39, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
Would someone competent in immunology please look at this article. It has a troublesome history. DGG (talk) 00:07, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
There is a discussion on Talk:Psychoactive_drug - a Venn diagram on Psychoactive_drug which some editors feel constitutes OR and is incorrect. Would be good to get some pharmacologists and or medicos in on it. cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 11:43, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
I just finished doing a cleanup on neurocardiology. I am not an expert, but I suspect this topic is more alternative medicine than medicine in general. I just wanted to let your project know since it is qualified as a stub class in your project so it can be categorized properly. DLPanther 15:35, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
((Osteopathic medicine)) I've created an infobox for the Osteopathic medicine articles, to help pull them together and ease navigation. I would appreciate any feedback on making this box as functional and well-formed as possible.
I redid the layout a bit, to improve the look. Feedback? TU Hopping T 22:08, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi can anyone tell me from what date coccygectomy became standard practise in the management of SCT? I know the Altmann typing of SCT began in 71/72 but when did total resection of the coccyx become regular protocol?Crinkles 23:23, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
I have not read much of the early literature, but the current standard of surgical treatment (including coccygectomy) is described in its entirety in a 1964 review article. So it must predate that article. --Una Smith 19:46, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
Can anyone give me details re coccygectomy in adults? --Una Smith 19:46, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
Hello. I was wondering if WikiProject Medicine would be interested in collaborating with the film project on Sicko (film). We really need as many experts as possible to keep this article honest and on topic. Please let me know if this is acceptable. Thank you. —Viriditas | Talk 10:04, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
Acidosis is long enough not to qualify as a stub, but I feel that we could still add quite a bit to the article on this basic medical concept. Thanks. -- 201.19.72.37 14:05, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
Eubulides, Colin, and Tim Vickers have substantially restored the de-featured autism article, and work has begun on Causes of autism and Heritability of autism. Additional help appreciated. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:50, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
The ATLS stub contains information I consider to be inacurate, although I might be wrong.
It states that ATLS is for paramedics and other advanced practitioners, where I thought it was for MD/DOs only, although other paramedic-level practitioners can AUDIT the course (ie attend but not get certified).
It states that BTLS is for EMT-Bs (going along with the first point above), where it is in fact for all EMTs (basics, intermediates/specialists, and paramedics).
I'm new to Wikipedia (and love it, BTW!), so sorry if I'm not completely protocol-compliant. I am, however, a paramedic and RN and think I have the above correct.
Sprender 16:37, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
I just added the Aortitis article, anyone with information is encouraged to visit. :) Navou banter 18:46, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
I just create a template for toxicology and poisoning: ((toxicology)). However, I am not exactly knowledgeable in the field, and would like someone competent to review for any obvious problems before I unleash it in articlespace. Circeus 00:32, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
The article Cephalometry is currently a stub. Anyone with a working knowledge, (and anyone else) nudged over there. By the way, from what I can tell, everyone is doing excellent work here. Navou banter 03:26, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
I'm looking for kind volunteers who could help me maintaining Portal:Medicine because I have no time to edit the articles because of the maintainance jobs. Thank you in advance! It'd be an easy task and I'd help a lot... NCurse work 19:04, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
Autism has gone through peer review, reached Good Article status, and is this week's selected article on the Medicine Portal. It is currently rated GA-Class in WikiProject Medicine. Can someone please check it and see whether it's A class? The plan is to nominate it as a featured article fairly soon, and other pairs of eyes before then would be appreciated. Thanks. Eubulides 20:23, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
Autism is getting very little feedback at FAC. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:52, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
Is this a page that we should consider looking over under the purview of WikiProject medicine? I'm asking because I'm not sure. On the one hand, psychic surgery is clearly not a medical procedure. On the other hand, however, an inquiring visitor may not know or understand this. Antelan talk 13:09, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
I came across the article Hand Hygiene and it looks like it could really use the attention of someone knowledgable. Would anyone here be able to lend a hand? Thanks. Deli nk 23:38, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
Hey all. Noticed on the recent Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Medicine articles by quality log that by adding med articles as a "list" class removes them from the med project (even though the actual med tag is still there!) see Talk:List of subjects in Gray's Anatomy: Alphabetical: Z as an example and then note how on the log it says that it was 'removed'. Anyone with more wiki/tech skills able to fix this problem? Thanks...petze 14:46, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
Here is a new one... Lymphocytic Interstitial Pneumonia. Regards, Navou banter 22:01, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
Just to get peoples attention... i added a comment on the anatomy wikiproject talk page regarding the ratting/tagging/ of anatomy type articles and if anyone happens to be intrested, you are all more than welcome to give ur opinions/comments/critisizm(sp?) about my opinion on anatomy classifying/rating... I figure I ask here as some people who might also be in the anatomy wikiproject, are also viewers of the medicine wikiproject but might not look at the anatomy wikiproject as often...Thanks for your time.petze 07:38, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
Further contributions required at the discussion of Morgellons disease. Thanks. Axl 09:13, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
Hello, this is slightly outside the scope of this WikiProject but any help would be appreciated. Category:Health risks has been proposed for deletion at WP:CFD, and the expertise of members of this project would be appreciated in the discussion of what the best action to take is. Thanks for any input, Kurieeto 16:12, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
The original version was fair-use and not free. If you can help at all in rewriting the article, please do so. Thank you! --Hemlock Martinis 18:56, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
Would someone be able to add (or find) a reference for some of these articles (unless one has already been added recently):
I was assessing them and noticed that they had no ref and thought it would be good (suggested from someone else ;) ) to post them here as someone from this wikiproject would be able to find refs for em easily... Thanks...petze 06:48, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi Folks, I hope this is the right place to ask. Balano-preputial lamina is a (rather perplexing) stub that cites no sources. As far as I can tell, the phrase is used by a handful of lobbyist websites, but only two reliable sources even use the term (both, oddly, are journal letters written by a lawyer on behalf of the same lobbyist group), and neither define it. Nor have I had any luck in textbooks. I'm trying to work out if the term actually exists in a meaningful sense - has anyone come across a reference anywhere? Jakew 22:44, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
I've begun working on articles related to pregnancy and childbirth, and have found that this is a topic sorely in need of additional editors' help. I would like to propose creating a task force for pregnancy-related articles within WP:MED. I envision the scope as encompassing clinical and preclinical subjects (assuming I understand those terms correctly), as well as what I call "experiential" subjects (for example, see this article) -- that is, subjects that are not strictly medical but which are nevertheless related to pregnancy and/or childbirth.
I have never been involved in the creation of a WikiProject or task force, so would appreciate any bureaucratic or technical help that might be offered, as well. --Ginkgo100talk 14:35, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
I initially suspected this article to be a POV fork. I have since worked with its author to resolve some of those issues, but the article still strikes me as a pro-osteopathic medicine fluff piece more suitable to a trade journal than to an encyclopedia. Even now, the original author is adding in details about osteopaths' practice rights in foreign countries (i.e., explicitly out of the scope of the title of the article in the United States). Beyond the first couple of sections with pro-osteopathic pronouncements by the AMA & AMSA and the discussion of the 1960s turf wars between osteo and traditional medicine, the remainder of the material doesn't even seem to fit with the subject of the article. I would appreciate it if others would take a look at this article and suggest ways to proceed. Thanks, Antelan talk 17:52, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
OK. You raise a valid point. However, I hope you will AGF here. In fact, my claim is correct though poorly sourced. The source I cited is one piece of a much broader conversation within the AMA about osteopathic/allopathic discrimination. The "fees for medical students" was one outcome of an investigation. It's not always easy to cite a source that is readily available on the web for AMA in-house policy documents / discussion. I'm trying. They are published and publicly available, but not always on the web.
The conversation expanded to discuss discrimination in general, and DO membership within the AMA. As indicated by "G-635.053 AMA Membership Strategy: Osteopathic Medicine", the AMA is now actively seeking DO membership. In "H-405.989 Physicians and Surgeons," the AMA demonstrates it advocates for equality between MDs&DOs in regards to the use of professional titles "physician" and "surgeon". Touro OsteopathicFreak T 23:05, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
"Osteopathic medical schools: After more than a century of often bitterly contentious relationships between the osteopathic and allopathic medical professions, we now find ourselves living at a time when osteopathic and allopathic graduates are both sought after by many of the same residency programs; are in most instances both licensed by the same licensing boards; are both privileged by many of the same hospitals; and are found in appreciable numbers on the faculties of each other's medical schools."
— President, Association of American Medical Colleges, 2005
The history of this conflict is real. People have written articles on these topics, including the specific details that you mention - Harvard's CME course as well as Harvard's non-CME OMM course for medical students (New Physician, Jan 2007), the changing attitude of the AMA towards osteopathic physicians and graduates, the new rules about fees is just one small example that illustrates the point. In both these cases, I have articles to cite, but they are not on the web. So, in the interest of verifiability I haven't cited them and have tried to steer towards web based sources whenever possible, but that has proved a bit limiting. This conversation seems hypercritical.Touro OsteopathicFreak T 04:29, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
I am working on lung cancer with the intention of submitting it for "featured article" status soon. I can vouch for the factual accuracy of the content. I have checked every reference (most of which I inserted). However I require more assistance to improve the quality of the prose, i.e. to make it compelling. This is especially important in the lead section. I am grateful for your assistance. Axl 18:02, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Now that autism has been restored to status, I'm hoping a (third) featured article review of Asperger syndrome can be avoided. I've put some work into cleaning up references and restoring a summarizing lead (as in the featured version); it's come along enough that the cleanup tag could be removed), but the article still needs attention. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 21:01, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act recently achieved Good Article status. I've nominated it for featured article status - please see Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act. Comments would be welcomed. -- ChrisO 22:35, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
Is there any template for using when placing an article under the scope of this WikiProject? I couldn't find one Jennylen 20:47, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
In the spirit of the TrueOrigins ((histref)) template, I've created a Medicine ((Medref)) template for medically-related articles that are missing sources or verification. Please let me know if you think this is helpful; if it can be improved; or if it should be deleted. Thanks, Antelan talk 22:04, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
Great! JennyLen 22:13, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
Since my last post got no response awhile back, I'll give it ago again: psychic surgery - is it something we're concerned about? "... it is performed by psychic doctors or psychic surgeons" This strikes me as phrasing that makes the procedure sound medical. I tried to note that these are not medical professionals, but I was rebuffed with this edit summary: Insert this back if you have a source that say no "psychic" surgeons have medical degrees If Wikiproject:Medicine is OK with this article as it stands, I'll go ahead and unwatch it, but I'd like to see what you all think. Antelan talk 07:32, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
Hello, I am a member of the WikiProject Council. I wanted to know if you may consider placing the banner ((Inter-Project Cooperation)) on your project's page? You may include there projects you cooperate with on a routinely basis. By doing this you may be contributing to inter-project cooperation and understanding. Thank you Daoken 21:58, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
I wonder if it could be added some section in the project's page where members can find all the templates when they need them ? I don't know how to do it but I could like new members have access to those resources JennyLen 13:28, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
Please, give me some feedback on this section. This is the first version. Should we describe how and when to use the templates or it's enough? Should we include infoboxes in a similar form, or just list them. It'll definitely be useful for beginners and experienced users as well. NCurse work 08:27, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
It's a Belgian psychiatrist. We are arguing currently in the French wiki if we should maintain him in the wiki.
The problem is that someone said that he was well known, and said that he was truly known in the english-speaking world like in Atlanta, Houston or Miami.
And I think that, this person is one of his friend or relative. So I wonder if people, here (in the english wiki) know him and can bring argument that his work as a psychiatrist is notorious and secondary sources have been produced from his work.
There is a strong suspection of fake. But we have no doubt that he is a psychiatrist and has made some publications. Most of the primary sources are not reliable because he has his own publishing house 'Socrates Promarex' and we can't find secondary sources about his work. And primary source seems to be Wikipedia.
Pppswing 10:56, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
I've nominated List of medical schools in the United Kingdom for featured list status here. Feel free to comment. CloudNine 11:14, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
I'm seeking consensus at MOSNUM talk for a change in the wording to allow contributors, by consensus only, to use unconverted metrics in scientific articles. Your opinions are invited. Tony 15:18, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
The article Necrotizing fasciitis could use a review by medical professionals for accuracy and professionalism. See also comments at Talk:Necrotizing_fasciitis. Thanks. -- 201.19.11.75 02:36, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
I would appreciate any input this project may have regarding the reliability of sources recently added to the water fluoridation article. The specific questions are found here: Talk:Water fluoridation#RfC. Thanks. · jersyko talk 13:29, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
Hi! I was hoping someone at this WikiProject could help me with this question: What is the formal medical term for getting the wind knocked out of you? The article doesn't say. —Remember the dot (talk) 21:50, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
Searching the web, it appears to me that "temporary paralysis of the diaphragm" (already in the article) is the formal medical term. --Una Smith 20:00, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
I think these two articles should be merged. How would we go about that? Thanks. --Afromcbenny 07:02, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
This article needs serious review for NPOV and WP:V. Vaccine controversy is quickly becoming a soapbox against vaccination. Djma12 (talk) 23:36, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
I was just looking over MCV, MCH, and MCHC and was thinking about merging these three into one article called Red blood cell indices as they are all related stubs. I don't think there is much potential for expansion for these articles, and I doubt anyone would object to the merge. Whether or not these should be merged, there definitely should be an article specifically for the red blood cell indices. As I see it, there are 3 options: a disambiguation page for the 3 articles, an overview page with ((main)) links to the 3 articles, or a merged page. I prefer a merge, but wanted others' opinions on the matter before I took action. I haven't put merge tags on the pages, as I'm sure not many people are watching those pages, and those who are probably are watching this page too. --Scott Alter 06:03, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
The Surgery article seems to be woefully inadequate in describing even the fundamentals of modern surgery. Is anybody working on expanding this article? H Padleckas 09:48, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
I have improved a lot this article in the last month and I´m thinking of nominating it for good article. I have asked for a scientific peer review; but I would appreciate any comments on how to improve it both in contents and style. The discussion page for the peer review is: Wikipedia:Scientific peer review/Therapies for multiple sclerosis —Preceding unsigned comment added by Garrondo (talk • contribs) 08:48, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
WikiProject Pharmacology is in the organizing phase of starting a Pharmacology Collaboration of the Week, in an effort to improve the many drug and pharmacology-related articles on wikipedia. If you're interested in helping, please visit WP:RxCOTW! Dr. Cash 20:38, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
I am trying to gauge what the interest would be for a WP:ONCOLOGY category. This would be under the broader auspices of WP:MED, along the lines of WP:RENAL and WP:Rads. It would address standards of care and best practices in surgical, medical, and radiation oncology, along with maintaining and editing cancer related articles.
If this is something you are interested in, please sign underneath the relevant section at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals#Oncology
Djma12 (talk) 23:09, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
Hay Fever could a review by professionals. In particular, the section "Medication" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hay_fever#Medication makes various un-cited recommendations for treatment. -- 201.19.15.178 12:40, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
Be advised that there is an AfD for GPnotebook, which is "an online encyclopaedia of medicine that provides an immediate reference resource for clinicians worldwide". This a potentially worthy article, but lacking sufficient independent evidence of notability to satisfy WP:ORG. I have recomended that the article be redirected to Diagnosis, but you may wish to express an alternative opinion here. --Gavin Collins 21:23, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
User:Caesarjbsquitti, an editor with an strong interest in a variety of unorthodox ideas and medical theories, has made a number of apparently questionable edits to various articles about mental illness. Could someone please review these?
It might also be instructive, as part of this process, to read their user page to get a better idea of the full breadth and depth of their interests: according to this, they are, for example, also the "Wrighter, [sic] researcher who discovered a negative side to truth, anti-truths, and wrighter of (The Jesus Christ Code. The LIGHT: The Rainbow of Truth. to be released 2007 © ) expanding the definition of 'truth' , 'half-truth' and 'lie' together with a new philosophy "Thinking In Color©", "The third side of the coin" and the 'wave theory of truth'." (emphasis theirs) -- Karada 16:34, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
I am nominating Lung cancer for featured article status. Please leave your comments here. Thanks. Axl 17:18, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
I have nominated the article as a good article candidate. I would be thankful to anybody who who helped in the good article review (See: Wikipedia:Good article candidates If you have not contributed significantly to this article, feel free to evaluate it according to the good article criteria and then pass or fail the article as outlined on the candidates page. --Garrondo 13:27, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
I have a few article requests:
For detailed information about this topic, see: Isabella Kardys, Jan Kors, Irene van der Meer, Albert Hofman, Deirdre van der Kuip and Jacqueline Witteman, "Spatial QRS-T Angle Predicts Cardiac Death in a General Population," in European Heart J. (2003) 24:1357-1364. (Note that if I had understood the science of ECG interpretation, I would have written the Wikipædia articles myself – so please write the articles in language that is intelligible to laypeople.) 68.49.208.76 05:39, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
On Talk:List of health topics: Si-So, W.marsh has asked for those pages to be moved out of the main namespace space. Is this project able/willing to take the pages, or should I move it under WP:MISSING ? John Vandenberg 07:39, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
Sick building syndrome was an article I found while working on multiple chemical sensitivity and Clinical ecology. It currently requires a substantial amount of work, as its only citation is to an air-filtration company. Djma12 (talk) 00:06, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
As part of the Notability wikiproject, I am trying to sort out whether Windber Research Institute is notable enough for an own article. I would appreciate an expert opinion. For details, see the article's talk page. If you can spare some time, please add your comments there. Thanks! --B. Wolterding 17:50, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
Food Additives and Hyperactivity, Again! mentions the Feingold diet article. Please look into the concerns raised in that news article. Thanks. -- Jreferee (Talk) 05:23, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
I have created a new category, Oncology navigation templates, and populated it with the relevant templates I could find. I think it is time to create navigation templates for tumors by location, rather than try to put all the necessary cross-referencing into each and every tumor page. Please help! You don't have to know all about tumors; the tumor pages themselves provid an outline for the navigation templates. --Una Smith 16:14, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
I've noticed that this topic is very inadequate, and have started to update it.--File Éireann 20:23, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
The article sole (foot) has been tagged as part of this wikiproject, as well as part of anatomy - shouldn't it be only under anatomy? There's nothing medical in the article, as it is, it's simply about the body part. Kuronue | Talk 01:43, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
If an article such as homeopathy or chiropractic (samples only) were to become featured, what category would it go in at WP:FA? Right now, we have Biology and medicine; would they go there, or would another category be needed? If so, what would it be called? And would these kinds of articles be subject to WP:MEDMOS ? How do we define "Medicine" articles? SandyGeorgia (Talk) 18:32, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
Note: this has arisen out of a dispute over the placement of Parapsychology in the Wikipedia:Featured articles page. IMO, both of Sandy's examples would go under Medicine. There's a healer-patient relationship, regardless of whether one believes in the theory behind it. I do think it is time to take the knife to the "Biology, medicine and psychology" category. I know there's overlap, but there is no clean way of splitting everything. Someone just needs to make a few arbitrary decisions. Blue whales and Tourette syndrome. You wouldn't find them together in the library. Colin°Talk 22:14, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
Would someone please comment on this discussion. It appears to hinge on one reference in NEJM that has been added recently. Does that reference make this topic notable and hence kept? --Bduke 23:49, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
Needs discussing. David Ruben Talk 00:49, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
The veganism article is a low-importance medicine article, currently listed as a GA. The GA review made this suggestion:
Any efforts to review and consolidate material, place it in more appropriate articles, find new sources, etc, would be greatly appreciated. KellenT 11:13, 17 September 2007 (UTC)
A person is attempting to include, under the title of 'Ethnomedical Uses' claims that oleander extract, called "oleander soup" can be used to treat cancer, hepatitis-C, psoriasis, HIV and other conditions. I'm not sufficiently qualified to evaluate these claims professionally - can anyone help, please? WLDtalk|edits 12:05, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
Came across this article recently, which seems to have been largely created by User:Mcorazao as an annotated list of some papers related to Low-carbohydrate diets. As an outsider to what I'm sure is a heated debate, IMO it feels like this stuff should be spread among the History and References sections of the Lcd article. But I figured I'd take the coward's way out - tag it to this Project and point it out to you guys to debate :-) No doubt that WP:EFFORT might be considered a factor, but I'm instinctively wary of article names that are that long..... FlagSteward 18:48, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
There's a dispute going on over at talk:smoking where the user Nacaats is fiercly disputing the neutrality of the article by claiming that it misrepresents the health hazards of smoking in favor of the opinions of anti-smoking lobbyists. The sources cited are being challenged through fact-tagging, insertion of much vaguer wording and references to FORCES International Liberty News Network.
Though I haven't studied this issue in excuciating detail, my impression is that there is a widely held consensus about the general health hazards of inhaling the smoke of incompletely combusted substances in the medical community. Could someone who knows the issue better try to help resolve this conflict? Right now, the article is protected due to edit warring.
Peter Isotalo 08:58, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
Lung cancer has been languishing at FAC for weeks, with little input from medical folk. I guess Raul should go ahead and promote it as is. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:46, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
Hi folks, I found this article to be a loose collection of topics, some of which require some leap of logic to assail against the profession as a whole. While each in of themselves is worthy of a (hopefully) balanced article, I believe tying them all together is not appropriate for WP on the basis of WP:NOT. cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 14:33, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
hello wikipedians! this is sairamnanda.i am a 2nd year medical student.i joined wiki to get my doubts clarified and get knowledge regarding the medical subjects..i am a new comer to wiki..so any pls suggest how to post doubts regarding a article..how to discuss a point... thanx a lot... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sairamnanda (talk • contribs) 06:56, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
Since there's a little bit of crossover in the topics between WP:PHARM and WP:MED, I thought I'd let y'all know that Paracetamol has recently been selected as the third Pharmacology Collaboration of the Week. It's currently already a featured article, but was promoted back in 2004, so it's probably well past due for a little refresher and improvement (else it goes to WP:FAR). If anyone wants to help out, please feel free.
Last week's collaboration was muscle relaxant, and was improved considerably. It currently awaits review for Good Article status.
Cheers! Dr. Cash 02:55, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
There's a disagreement at Talk:Muscle_contraction#Eccentric_redux, is anyone available and knowledgeable enough to put in a comment on the accuracy of the section and other changes? WLU 23:56, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
It has been mentioned that the content of the Cancer Cluster section of this article seems to rely entirely on one source. In fact, a recent article in a local newspaper here writes
"Arsenic in the water, tungsten in the air, polonium in wells, underground atomic testing to the east - all have been reported by the media. The entry for "Fallon, Nevada" on Wikipedia, a popular online encyclopedia, mentions the leukemia cluster. It's no wonder some outsiders unfortunately perceive our community as unhealthy."
If you have access to any further information regarding this subject which might be relevant to this article regarding this subject, such as perhaps contrary opinions and/or further research, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. John Carter 15:01, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
There is a deletion review of the deleted article Psychatric abuse at:
Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2007 October 5#Psychiatric abuse
cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 09:53, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
A great deal of information in the article "Tremor" was apparently taken from http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/tremor/tremor.htm -- The National Institute on Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
This source is never cited.
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If anyone has a lot of free time (he he) can you help out at Talk:Homeopathy? Thanks. ScienceApologist 16:22, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
Are articles like Hospital, or other medical institutions under the scope of this WikiProject? Because the article Private hospital seems inadequate. kawaputratorque 02:41, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
Could someone please look at this article? It's been written by a single author, who's clearly an expert in the subject but a newbie on Wikipedia. The article needs all kinds of style work. Thanks for looking into it. Shalom (Hello • Peace) 13:02, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
I've added project template to 2000+ articles by creating list from category pages and need help in assessing them. Instructions are detailed in asseessment page. Unassessed articles can be found here(quality) and here(priority). Bot generated assessment logs are available but there is a backlog of 3-4 days. Project template now has script for auto-stubbing (for bot and semibot operation). My guess is there are 10,000+ medicine related articles yet to be assessed and I am trying to find and tag them. --Countincr ( t@lk ) 20:49, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
In trying to clear some of these unassessed pages, I've run across a few that I'm not sure should be WPMED at all. Molera is the most recent one. It's a bit of anatomy on a dog. Does WPMED include everything that also belongs to 'WikiProject Veterinary medicine'? Or should we kill the WPMED tag on this one? WhatamIdoing 18:22, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
Would someone (or several someones) at this project take a look at the article assessments on Talk:Glossary of alternative medicine and Talk:Race please? It's not clear to me why these are top-level importance when things like Public health and Nurse and Poverty and Health care and Surgery aren't. WhatamIdoing 05:38, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
I just wanted to say that I definitely don't think these two articles should be merged. The issue of food fortification is independent of supplements as one is a public health policy while the other is a personal lifestyle choice! Emma. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.117.143.33 (talk) 10:45, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
I have nominated the article for featured article after working on it after it become a GA. anybody thinks the article is good enough please vote for it. Any comments for improvement will also be welcomed.Garrondo 14:01, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
Hello. I have come across an article about Neurorehabilitation while patrolling new pages for COI creations (this article appears to to have been created by the Guttmann Institute in Barcelona who specialise in neurorehabilitation). I have no idea whether this is a credible article or not. Would you have a look at it please. Thanks. --Malcolmxl5 11:29, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
I thing that an organized anatomy section is essential. I will be adding to this, hopefully some type of sub page can be created to quickly find all related info... Lou.kirk 18:39, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
I suggest that allopathic be merged or redirected into allopathic medicine. A discussion is [here]. Antelan talk 05:18, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
Mess of COI edits by involved parties (see WP:COI/N#Lipodissolve): needs some regular medical contributors. Gordonofcartoon 15:31, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
At Infertility (in this section) and Abortion (see footnote), a user claims that there is an established causal effect between induced abortions and subsequent infertility, risk of miscarriage, and sterility. I have found three references which state that there is not a causal link between abortion and infertility. I would appreciate it if interested parties with appropriate backgrounds would weigh in on this issue. Please visit Talk:Infertility#Abortion and infertility to join in the discussion. Thank you. Photouploaded 18:05, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
Check out this interactive clinical case with referenced case discussion I just created on Wikiversity. This is part of the Wikiversity School of Medicine. Everyone is invited to improve this learning module, of course.
--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 00:08, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
This Scientific Peer Review project can hardly be called successful. While there have been a steady but small flow of articles submitted for review, the actual reviews have been either non-existent or in no real way different from those done through the standard Wikipedia:Peer review process. Some editors will recall that the project was started with an enthusiastic discussion about identifying expert reviewers through an elected board. Unfortunately as time went by, it became clear there was no consensus on whether we had a board, or on how it was to be set up or on what it was supposed to do. There was also a lack of consensus on what "sciences" we were covering, and on many other aspects. In the end we sort of lapsed into a minimal review process which has staggered on for about 18 months. I think it is time we decided what to do about the project. Unless people can come up with a new way forward and enthusiastically implement it, I think we have to declare that this project be no longer active in any sense and that editors should ask for review at WP:PR. I am posting this on the talk pages of the major Science WikiProjects. Please feel free to publicize it elsewhere. Please add you comments at Wikipedia talk:Scientific peer review#Is this inactive?. --Bduke 01:51, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
On WT:CLINMED we are discussing the need for this WikiProject to be merged with WP:CLINMED. I strongly encourage everyone to participate in this discussion, as we are simultaneously discussing other important issues, like WP:MCOTW and so on. JFW | T@lk 20:35, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
I was wondering if someone with more knowledge of the subject could take a look at the gestational hypertension article. I am a student nurse and the facilities in our health authority have phased out the terms pre-eclampsia and eclampsia and the definition of PIH or GH being used includes proteinuria. I am told this is based on EB research. 198.166.58.153 (talk) 05:24, 19 November 2007 (UTC) katie
Is Black band disease really appropriate for WPMED? It's a disease that strikes coral in the ocean. If you have an opinion, please either rate the article on its talk page, or delete the WPMED template. WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:25, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
Please see Talk:Medical education for a question on use of case study. The question arises from a convergence in Law and Medicine education 100 years ago, and involves training in diagnosis.Rgdboer (talk) 01:59, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
– — … ° ≈ ≠ ≤ ≥ ± − × ÷ ← → · § Can anyone identify research that shows ongoing effects of Pink Disease (Acrodynia) where origina; exposure was severe. I am aware of the research of Dr Linda Jones on the effect of mercury poisoning in dental workers after 30 (?) years time lapse but there seems to be nothing showing the same effects on children.Williamjireh (talk) 07:16, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
Are you asking about late effects (in adulthood) of severe mercury poisoning in children? Have you searched PubMed? --Una Smith (talk) 17:59, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
Yes. I have a relative who had severe Pink Disease as a child. I believe, from research I have been able to do, that some of the emotional/mental things she experiences now are reflective of the impact of mercury poisoning, such as are described as neurotoxicity, but want to know if there has been any difinitive research which suggest this is possible. I have looked at PubMed but can't find anything.Williamjireh (talk) 03:33, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
The article Ambulance, in the scope of WikiProject Medicine has been nominated for Featured Article status. If you have interest in this topic, please comment at the featured article page here. Regards, Owain.davies (talk) 18:52, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
Hi all,
User:Danny has launched another contest to improve core articles called Wikipedia:The Core Contest: the authors of the 5 most improved articles in two weeks (Nov 25 - Dec 9) will win $100 each. I'd love to collaborate with some of you die hards out there to get a medical article in the top 5. Some medical articles on the list which desperately need improving, and look to me as perfect candidates for us to jump on, are:
...
Well I only got to the letter I, but there are good candidates here. Anybody up for it? --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 00:26, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
I found these two articles while trying to unravel a disambig on schizophrenia - surely this is a no-brainer for a merge but I thought listing it here was prudent.cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 02:17, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
Hello, I would like to request that someone please add a description to Image:Cn3nucleus.png, explaining what kind of section this is (coronal?), and roughly where in the head those structures are. The picture is used in several articles on brain anatomy. Thanks, AxelBoldt (talk) 01:22, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
Sanjpatel1 (talk · contribs) (who runs http://www.asktheneurologist.com) has offered a link for consideration on Talk:Frontal release sign. The page contains a video of the palmomental reflex, which he unfortunately cannot upload directly to Wikipedia. I was wondering what people's views were vis a vis WP:EL. JFW | T@lk 20:50, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
After rather intensive discussion on WT:CLINMED, I can only conclude that MCOTW in its present form needs an overhaul. Rather than having articles run for 1 or 2 weeks, there are calls for a more informal but equally collaborative process. Some feel that articles should be collaborated on for 4 weeks. Others feel that articles can be "worked on" simultaneously as long as one or two enthusiastic editors take the lead (as is commonly the case anyway). JFW | T@lk 23:47, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
I would like to propose the following:
Please let me know your considerations here. After the somewhat disappointing experiences on meningitis and allergy I'm convinced that the system I've outlined above will make for better medicine articles. JFW | T@lk 23:47, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
Collaborations will definitely be simultaneous. The presence of an article on the "collaboration list" simply means that an article has been flagged for collaborative work. The sky is the limit, although in practice we should try to limit the number of active collaborations to 5-6, if at all possible. JFW | T@lk 01:26, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
One model to consider following is Wiktionary's requests for verification page. I really like the bottom-up, unsupervised, collective approach. In fact, we could use a similar approach here, to flag medical articles that, for example, need references to medical literature (as opposed to websites). --Una Smith (talk) 17:55, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
Okay, let's make a list of the kinds of contributions (tasks) we might want to request:
We might request a lot more. In the past, MCOTW produced featured articles. JFW | T@lk 06:39, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
I was indeed suggesting that the cyclic improvement drive was not going to work, because topics are rather specialised. Rather, we will have a number of articles simultaneously marked for improvement. As Una Smith and myself have indicated, articles can be nominated for various reasons, from GA/FA status to sources/NPOV.
My original suggestion was that nominators should monitor progress on articles they have nominated, and Berci & myself would only remove articles if the nominator does not do that. The nominator is not necessarily the same person as the "responsible editor" I was thinking about.
I know that in this model some things sound less ideal than others, but on the whole I think it is a format that is most likely to achieve results. Needless to say, it is down to the numbers in some aspects. JFW | T@lk 12:41, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
In the past, MCOTW produced featured articles. Please recall goal, objective, strategy, tactic, task. GA or FA article quality is a goal, or perhaps an objective toward some other, larger goal. MCOTW (a tactic) was intended to recruit editors (a strategy) to do work (tasks), but we all agree the MCOTW tactic does not work well. (I tried it myself, I did not like the result, and I want nothing more to do with it.) There are many possible tactics. I suggest we adopt a new tactic that focuses attention on identifying what tasks are really needed at a given time. It is helpful to focus on tasks because some (many) editors specialize in certain tasks. Information about an article's importance and current quality would be useful statements to make when requesting help with specific tasks. --Una Smith (talk) 16:53, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
My final point above concerns the merge of MCOTW and open tasks, and the fact that present open tasks should be grandfathered into the new system. As I was trying to explain, lists of open tasks alone do not achieve enough because there is no guarantee that anyone will actually focus on that task. JFW | T@lk 23:20, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
I have been working my way through the several thousand WPMED-tagged articles that Countincr found a while ago. Today I noticed that User:Doczilla has recently tagged a bunch of categories as being part of the WPMED project. See this list for a handful of examples.
Do you all want categories to be tagged with the WPMED template? My current thought is that the WPMED template belongs only on articles, but I'm open to comments. WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:20, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
Putting this template on categories looks a little weird to me because the template actually says, "This article is within the scope of WikiProject Medicine."
On the broader question, what do you think the major point behind the tag is? Is it primarily a stamp of ownership (in which case, including categories may be sensible)? Is it a way of making all the medicine-related articles easy for a reader to find and browse? Is it a way to prioritize articles for improving (in which case, including categories may be irrelevant)? WhatamIdoing (talk) 17:41, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
"Tagging categories would let a potential editor know that WikiProject Medicine is involved in the maintenance of the category, and not to make big changes without consulting us here." Please don't even think that thought! I tag pages to make it just a little easier for me and others to find them again. I certainly do not expect (nor want!) to be consulted before another editor does work. Please do nothing to discourage or inhibit editors who want to make big changes.
--Una Smith (talk) 02:04, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
Hello everybody. I've done a lot of work on this article and it has now been awarded GA. Does it have any FA potential? I would appreciate any feedback. Best wishes. GrahamColmTalk 20:26, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
We need a paediatrician to get a good opinion on this, although I will also have a look. Perhaps a quick email to Alteripse (talk · contribs) will help. JFW | T@lk 22:48, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
Stop me if this has bee discussed before, but I feel that there should be clear links on the portal to all the medical specialities, I think that would be a nice way to organize the information. So then after clicking on Urology for example, one may have several urology topics to choose from. I suppose eventually each specialty could have it's won portal/ front page. Is this a good way to think about it?
Expo512 (talk) 09:53, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
My sense is that most encyclopedia readers don't access information by specialty. Also, access by specialty is provided via the category pages. Expo512, what do you have in mind to improve on this? --Una Smith 17:00, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
With the merge of the medicine, preclinical medicine and clinical medicine wikiprojects, this might be a good moment to redesign the project page to be more useful. I created a mockup based on the WP:MCB project page which can be found here. Tell me what you think about it. Also feel free to make any changes to it to improve it. --WS (talk) 19:55, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
There is a mess in articles concerning drug abuse. For instance, there is an article on Addiction, one on Drug addiction, one on Substance abuse and one on Drug abuse, all saying much the same thing. We need to integrate them in order not to confuse readers where they differ from each other.
First, we need to define from what definitions of drug abuse to make the layout of the articles. For instance, some definitions include Physical dependence in Drug addiction and some do not, and it's important to define what standpoint Wikipedia has in order to organize the articles. The other standpoints can still be presented within the articles.
The following definitions of drug abuse are given:
There might be more of them, so please fill them in if you find any.
Personally, I prefer the layout presented e.g. in Drug addiction (the 2001 definitions), differing the following terms (and articles):
The article Addiction presents some other aspects than Drug addiction, and should just contain a large summary of Drug addiction and a link to Drug addiction. On the other hand, Substance abuse and Drug abuse really don't contribute with anything more than terminology, and should also be merged. All these terminology and definitions can then be merged into one section in Drug addiction (probably needing a separate article forked from it). Pseudoaddiction, although by definition distinct, might also be a section in Drug addiction, since there isn't much about that subject yet.
Thus, the layout is following:
I further suggest a Template is created with the definitions and differences, and then placed in each article. Mikael Häggström (talk) 08:44, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
All in all Drug abuse seems to be the highest article, not in importance in any way, but as the article to fork other articles from. Then future contributors know where to attach further information regarding drug abuse, not really fitting into more specialized subjects.
Regarding Recreational drug use vs. Drug abuse, all standpoints are probably sufficiently explained in all those definitions. Yet, it's a good idea to have a separate section e.g. "Recreational use vs abuse" in the article, with link to Recreational drug use.
It's much the same thing with illegal drug use vs. drug abuse. I think the article politics of drug abuse serves that purpose. To make the distinction even more clear, a section e.g. consitent with the recreational one, e.g. " Illegal use vs. drug abuse " may be created.
So, with this in mind, a proper outline would be:
Mikael Häggström (talk) 07:13, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
To anyone who knows anything about Aase-Smith: Would you please look at this stub? It's the bit about "red blood cells (anemia), which help fight infection" that has me doubting the accuracy of the text. WhatamIdoing 03:52, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
I know nothing, but I can look things up. Aase-Smith is a redirect to Aase-Smith syndrome, which needs to be merged with (or disentangled from) Aase syndrome and perhaps also Diamond Blackfan anemia. On PubMed, searching for "Aase syndrome" gets several hundred hits to Diamond Blackfan anemia, while searching for "Aase-Smith syndrome" gets several hundred other hits, many with "Aase-Smith syndrome" in the title. --Una Smith 05:23, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
Adding a sig here so the bot can date and remove this section. --Una Smith 14:52, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
Adding sig date stamp so bot can remove. --Una Smith 15:17, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
Adding a sig here so the bot can date and remove this section. --Una Smith 14:50, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
Asperger syndrome has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here.
For the record, Asperger syndrome passed its third FA review in September 2007. --Una Smith 15:21, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
Why does the Borders section of the article on the Frontal Bone talk about the squama temporalis? It just doesn't seem right.
I have copied this query to Talk:Frontal bone. --Una Smith 14:47, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
I hope everyone will please read through this entire discussion as it relates to the use of Wiki sister projects to further a conflict of interest. I suggest we need to be much more vigilant about links to Wiki sister projects; perhaps it was only me, but it has never occurred to me before that they needed to be checked according to the same criterion we'd use for any other external link. It's also worth noting that Slp1 was all alone on this issue until I happened to bring this article to FAR, at which point the issues came to the light of day before a broader audience. (And will someone please review Ambulance at FAC?) SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:51, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
The following discussion is from Template talk:Medicine:
Why not merge the Physician specialties and Medical specialties? They include the same list - just that Physician specialties links to their codes. Mikael Häggström (talk) 13:08, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
If you are going to be merging these articles, I recommend merging all of the articles listed on the left side of the template. There is a lot of duplicated content between Physician specialties, Medical specialty, Surgical specialties, and Medical specialist. I recommend creating one big table of the specialties, with each row containing the specialty, surgical or medical, specialty code, annual salary, parent specialty (if sub-specialty), and a brief description of the field. You might want to place ((mergeto)) and ((mergefrom)) tags on the pages and move this discussion to one of these 4 articles' talk pages. --Scott Alter 15:46, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
Is the content of Physician specialty codes even encyclopedic? I have my doubts... JFW | T@lk 22:11, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
This article is an absolute disgrace. It includes as "health effects" really only "health benefits" of tobacco smoking. As a doctor I am particularly apalled that this is the case. This article either needs urgent review or to be merged into another article which is less biased. I've started adding in some brief information about health RISKS, though I'm having problems with working out how to cite articles to put citations in there at the moment. I think I do need some help fixing that article up... help! Snipergirl (talk) 14:26, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
Well done Snipergirl. Don't hesitate to tag the page ((POV)) if you can't fix it on your own. I have renamed the page tobacco and health, which is a more inclusive title that would allow the page to cover more controversial issues such as the health risks of Snus. Be aware that passive smoking contains much relevant material, and that you may want to summarise its conclusions in a separate paragraph with the ((main)) at the top to avoid duplication.
We will obviously help out as much as possible, but I believe MastCell (talk · contribs) has recently spent a lot of time trying to knock passive smoking into shape. JFW | T@lk 15:25, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
Thanks dudes! Will start doing too :) Snipergirl (talk) 16:10, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
It looks like the original writers of this article did quite a valiant effort while they could. I have completely rewritten the article with some structural changes with some help from the coronary heart disease article. It does also need some more padding out but it's a start. Snipergirl (talk) 16:21, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
It seems there is a current debate (in the archived version of this talk page) about which articles should be joined. Some of the articles in question are not solely related to drug abuse and many of them do not fall within the topic of drug abuse at all.
In particular, drug dependence, drug tolerance etc are biological processes that have litle to do with drug abuse. Patients routinely become physiologically dependent on and tolerant to drug effects without abusing them. This is especially relevant in cases where the drug in question has no psychological addiction potential whatsoever, and there are many cases where this is true. One would never refer to a patient who has become tolerant to antibiotics as a drug abuser, or an addict, nor is that patient dependent on the drug, IE if one discontinues the antibiotic course there is not likely to be a set of withdrawal symptoms. One would also not refer to a patient who is dependent on anti-depressants as an addict even if discontinuation of the drug would cause withdrawal symptoms.
In addition, one can become tolerant to drugs like morphine or valium without abusing them, cancer patients routinely become tolerant and physiologically dependent on opiates despite the fact that they are using them for legitimate purposes, but one would never refer to a cancer patient as a drug addict simply because of tolerance or physical dependence on the medication. These specific conditions are entirely separate and lumping them together is incorrect.
To clarify my position, it would be highly improper to pull all these topics under the drug abuse subject simply because they are related in some way, and they have more to differentiate them than they have in common. Mrsteveman1 (talk) 22:51, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
Hi,my name is Shirley Free,and my son Phillip Thompson has cystinosis.He was diagnosed with Fanconi Syndrome a littel over a year old.This may he turned 6 years old,and in june an eye Dr. found out it was cystinosis.I was terrified.He is currently on the Cystagon (for 4 months now)and goes to Arkansas Children'Hospital tomorrow to see if the treatment is working.I also have an 18 month old daughter,Tori, who will be tested tomorrow to see if she has cystinosis.I guess I just wanted to tell someone so they know they are not alone. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.95.123.144 (talk) 19:57, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
Herpes zoster is on WP:FAC. Please comment at Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Herpes zoster and help Orangemarlin (talk · contribs) in getting this featured. JFW | T@lk 22:20, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
Dear Wikimedians,
This is a (belated) announcement that requests are now being taken for illustrations to be created for the Philip Greenspun illustration project (PGIP).
The aim of the project is to create and improve illustrations on Wikimedia projects. You can help by identifying which important articles or concepts are missing illustrations (diagrams) that could make them a lot easier to understand. Requests should be made on this page: Philip_Greenspun_illustration_project/Requests
If there's a topic area you know a lot about or are involved with as a Wikiproject, why not conduct a review to see which illustrations are missing and needed for that topic? Existing content can be checked by using Mayflower to search Wikimedia Commons, or use the Free Image Search Tool to quickly check for images of a given topic in other-language projects.
The community suggestions will be used to shape the final list, which will be finalised to 50 specific requests for Round 1, due to start in January. People will be able to make suggestions for the duration of the project, not just in the lead-up to Round 1.
thanks, pfctdayelise (talk) 13:12, 13 December 2007 (UTC) (Project coordinator)
The treatment section of the Scabies pages has been flagged for its potential bias and 'how-to,' but I'm not entirely clear why (I have a guess, 'tho, and have been working to improve it.) Any suggestions?Rick lightburn (talk) 17:30, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
There have been to changes to the symptoms list for this condition by anonymous users recently. Are these changes correct? (change upper/lower GI and 73% blistering) Rmhermen (talk) 02:58, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
When an anonymous user adds hard numerical data ("a recent study shows that 29% are associated with vitamin B2 (riboflavin) deficiency") that cannot easily be traced I usually remove it with an edit summary explaining that WP:V applies.
I have started expanding the HSP article. Any help is appreciated. JFW | T@lk 13:16, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
Category:Eponymous diseases was deleted based on this discussion: Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_April_11#Eponymous_medical_terms, anyone else thinks that's not consensus? --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 19:01, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
Mitochondrion (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) is on WP:FAC - see Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Mitochondrion. While this is technically an MCB article, it contains a section on mitochondrial disease that could - as well as the relevant subarticle - benefit from some medical help. JFW | T@lk 21:09, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
I created a little article about loin pain hematuria syndrome. Check it out if you have a few moments. Nephron T|C 01:49, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
Needs attention: intro and much of article presumes accepted existence, adn cites only partisan unreliable sources. 86.145.94.23 (talk) 04:21, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
User:Emmanuelm shortened Neoplasia and Tumor on the grounds that the Cancer article is much more exciting, so people should really just go to that article instead. I've reverted the edits to Neoplasia, primarily because I was (and am) irritated by the consensus-free style on display, but also because it seems really undesirable to "soft-redirect" a woman with benign uterine fibroids (to name one common non-cancerous neoplasm) to the cancer article. I don't normally keep track of Tumor and don't want to intrude if its usual shepherds agree with the changes. Would someone else (or several someone elses) please take a look at both of these articles and make rational decisions about them? WhatamIdoing (talk) 02:53, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
Can we get an MD or two to look at the Andropause article? It is a complete mess and needs to be totally re-written. As one unsigned visitor noted, the article looks as if it was written by a barely literate self-help guru. It may also need to be tagged as controversial. Thanks, Invertzoo (talk) 18:25, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joint fasciitis needs some help from someone who knows something about the subject. The question at hand is whether this is a synonym for Necrotizing fasciitis or not. Thanks for any enlightenment! --Fabrictramp (talk) 17:18, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
Please see my comment at Talk:Squamous cell carcinoma. Could someone have a look at the point I'm making regarding the number of cases. Thanks. 81.109.216.245 (talk) 21:15, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
Some medical billing manuals define "late effect" as a residual effect or sequela of an acute condition. But in the medical research literature "late effect" refers to a condition that occurs (or presents) after (sometimes long after) the causative condition has resolved. In clinical medicine, is "late effect" just a synonym for sequela? And how do these terms relate to complication (medicine)? All these pages need improvement. (Also, improvement now would be helpful in resolving some difficulties with Herpes zoster.) Please take a look at them. --Una Smith (talk) 05:01, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
The section on Ciliary muscle movements in the Lens article seems to contain information that conflicts with other (more referenced) articles. Specifically, the Lens article says that ciliary muscles contract to make lens flat, whereas ciliary muscle and Accommodation both say that the ciliary muscle contraction results in lens becoming more spherical due to the relaxation of zonular fibers.
Can someone verify one or the other, or provide an explanation? Quartertone (talk) 18:30, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
Periosteal reaction is currently listed as an article which needs to be Wikified. [24] Could you folks from WikiProject Medicine please take a look at it? Thanks. -- 201.37.229.117 (talk) 21:27, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
Is anyone watching Da Costa's syndrome these days? I did some formatting and sourcing work when I ran across it today, and I'd like to have someone else look at the 'History' section, and then at the personal webpage listed at the very end (particularly the bit that starts "Why I wrote this theory"). I'm highly suspicious of a WP:OR violation, but parts of the history are probably accurate -- although I'm not sure that they're worth saving. What do you think? WhatamIdoing (talk) 22:05, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
What a title! And typically for us, we don't have Wrong operation. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 17:24, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
Given that we have no Wikipedia radiologist, I was rather impressed with the hard work that Glitzy_queen00 (talk · contribs) has been putting into the radiology content on Wikipedia, including copious image uploads and useful content. Sadly, this user has now departed, has not registered an email address, and has not responded to a message I left on their talkpage on 8 December.
Does anyone know contributors who could help out with our radiology pages? Today I found myself improving CT pulmonary angiogram, and would love some peer review. JFW | T@lk 16:21, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
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