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Impressive additions to the Pregnancy article. Once we unprotect Abortion I'd love to get your input over there. Good luck and feel free to drop a line on user talk:tznkai if you have any questions or comments.--Tznkai 18:12, 24 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Likewise, welcome, and thanks for your additions to pregnancy. As a matter of style and form, I'd suggest making vertical lists into two-colums (easier to read, saves space), and moving lists down below toward the middle. The reason being is that definitions arent always prerequisites for the average end user, and in fact, we can make it a footer, with each entry dynamically linked from the article. I would do it now, but Im done for today. Sinreg, and happy editing, SV|t 19:08, 26 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for expanding that article. Please note that boldface is only really used in the intro for the article title, and emphasis otherwise is made with italics. See the manual of style for details. PS have you joined WikiProject Clinical medicine. JFW | T@lk 07:00, 29 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Welcome to wikipedia. I reverted a couple of your contributions related to puberty. If you look carefully at the restorations you will see that the original versions corresponded more closely and accurately to our current understanding of puberty and terminology usage. If you still need explanation of the differences or think something can be made clearer tell me what parts you thought needed to be changed and I would be happy to explain in more detail or revise. A pediatric endocrinology text would be a good starting point for honing your understanding of puberty. I've taught this topic to medical students for many years. alteripse 02:46, 16 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi I wasn't aware that they had renamed the MEN2 syndromes. Do you have a reference for this? Ta Ianmc 21:16, 26 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Im not sure why your user page isn't valid, but anyhow, I didnt change the naming convention on that wiki page, just the contents under each listing. Current naming convention is MEN 1, MEN 2A, and MEN 2B and not MEN 1, 2, 3.

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I agree that diabetes mellitus is particularly messy. I don't think everything should be in that article. It would be too long, and the details would distract from the main flow. I have outlined on Talk:Diabetes mellitus how I thought the article and its subarticles should be organised. So far I have not had the time to make that article better.

Pneumonia is a good example of a general-purpose article with subarticles. JFW | T@lk 07:18, 29 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, there's already an article on pericarditis. Would it be cool if I merge your article into it and leave a redirect? Thx. -- Samir (the scope) 23:24, 30 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, makes sense now... Constrictive pericarditis is all over the internal medicine textbooks because of the unique hemodynamics and P/E findings, but my understanding is that it's quite rare. Go ahead with the two articles, I'm sure you'll improve things, and then we can sort out the redirects -- Samir (the scope) 01:20, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Congrats! You're doing a great job with the article! I'm looking to see if I kept an ECG of acute pericarditis -- Samir (the scope) 04:13, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I like the changes you made! I'm going to copyedit a bit. Couldn't find my pericarditis ECG, have to scour the office. -- Samir (the scope) 02:03, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, sorry to get back to you so late, I've been so busy it's stupid. Sure, I have no problem with the merge, but did you discuss it with others on the talk page of one of the pages first? That way if anyone else has a problem with it it can be discussed. You can also use the {{mergeto|X}} and {{mergefrom|Y}} templates to suggest the merge. Thanks for your hard work! Peace, delldot | talk 14:45, 6 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I like the changes that you made to the treatment -- kudos for that! As a gastroenterologist, there's a few changes that you made to the UC article that are not exactly legit... C Diff toxin IS part of the initial management of UC, IV cyclosporine is almost NEVER used in the era of ACT-2, UC is a systemic inflammatory disease, clubbing is caused by UC, C Diff can cause rectal bleeding, AXR is routine in management of the first UC patient, even though ACG guidelines suggest not surveying L sided colitis for cancer, AGA, ASGE, CAG, European guideliens suggest it, and you should always cannulate the TI if it can be done safely in order to distinguish UC from CD. Do you have refs for your diffs? Thanks. -- Samir (the scope) 03:55, 11 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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And you're invited to help out. Please check out WikiProject Gastroenterology when you get a chance. Cheers -- Samir धर्म 08:18, 31 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I was looking through your category of neglected diseases and I was wondering is there any references (ie from the WHO or CDC categorizing these listed diseases as being neglected? It seems that those diseases affect the neglected and the poor, which is why they are named as such, but I'm not sure if that term is generally accepted by international standards since there are so many other diseases that can affect the neglected. thanks. Andrewr47 02:21, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure who defined the 13 neglected diseases, but the list can be found in various/many places on the net. They were probably defined by the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi). The diseases are not diseases of neglected people, but diseases which are neglected by drug companies' R&D departments. —Pengo ^{talk · contribs} 02:30, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. Please see the main article on Neglected Diseases instead of just the category. —Pengo ^{talk · contribs} 02:32, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Aspirin has been selected as this week's Pharmacology Collaboration of the Week! Please help us bring this article up to featured standards during the week. The goal is to nominate this at WP:FAC on September 10, 2007.

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Here's a brief update in some of the recent developments of WikiProject Pharmacology!

• Aspirin has just completed its two week run as the first Collaboration of the Week! Many thanks to those editors that contributed; the article got a lot of good work accomplished, and in particular, much work was done in fixing up the history section. It's still not quite "done" yet (is a wikipedia article really ever done?), but after two weeks I think it's more important to push onwards with the development of the new collaboration of the week program. I will be fixing up Aspirin in the next few days and possibly nominating it for either GA or FA status.

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• Anabolic steroid is the wikiproject's newest Featured Article, having been promoted on October 8, 2007.

• Theobromine was delisted as a Good Article. The Peer review and GA reassessment discussions provide suggestions on improvement. Muscle relaxant was recently reviewed for Good Article status, but not promoted. Please see the full review full review here for details.

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Hello Andrewr47,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Platelet transfusion for deletion, because it doesn't appear to contain any encyclopedic content. Take a look at our suggestions for essential content in short articles to learn what should be included.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can , but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. NeedAGoodUsername (talk) 16:25, 21 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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