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Medicine, surgery, health
- Mixing chiropractic needs renaming and rewriting - not my area so I don't know how much of what's here is any use, but I suspect not a lot. Toby W 23:15, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)
- Sphygmomanometry - Optim 03:55, 21 Feb 2004 (UTC)
- Most of it is covered in sphygmomanometer, I'm trying to improve on Sphygmomanometry.
- Traditional medicine - essay needs complete overhaul Jwrosenzweig 22:50, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)
- Did minor editing. heidimo 03:53, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) - Delighted that there is material on this subject. This text, however, reflects the old convention that HRT was strictly applicable to females. The endrocronologists and others working in this field have expanded it to cover the treatment of males and even refer to the age problem of males as "andropause". There are now "andrologists" and others treating "andropause" with HRT. Need an expert to redo this subject.
- Eyeglass prescription could probably be shortened considerably. A lot of the actual content would seem more appropriate on corrective lens, lens (optics) and possibly eye. Rvollmert 13:45, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder -- mostly a sort of op-ed based on one web page. --Zero 06:54, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- The main entry for PTSD is post-traumatic stress disorder. This is unfortunate as the DSM-IV spells it posttraumatic stress disorder which, as you might see does not lead anywhere at the time of my writing this. I believe the contents of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder should be moved to the talk page of PTSD where some of it could be incorporated into the main article. A redirect from that page should then lead to the main article which should be moved to rename it in keeping with the DSM-IV spelling and the old main article page should be a redirect to the new spelling. I think I understand what I just wrote. --CloudSurfer 10:10, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Iron overload disorder, haemochromatosis - the former is crossreferenced to the latter, regarding topics which are not found in that article. Especially, dietary iron overload and parental iron overload are not covered. --Eequor 22:13, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Antiphospholipid antibody syndrome -- needs a thorough copyediting. Don't know if the current content is copyrighted or not. Alex.tan 08:10, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Endometriosis needs some TLC to make it sound like an encyclopedia article instead of a pamphlet. Alex.tan 10:04, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Diabetes mellitus - not up to the standard of scientific knowledge. Kpjas
- I've tried piecemeal changes in this and related pages. The structure here needs more help, and more tweaking. There is some question as to whether the focus should be on information for diabetics or the science (as known) about diabetes, or both. I suggest both as diabetics should certainly understand more than a little about the science. More detailed stuff (how to test for blood glucose, diabetic menus/cooking, ...) should probably go elsewhere. ww 20:12, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- Infantile spinal muscular atrophy - needs TLC --Graham :) | Talk 15:00, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)
- Done some work on this. Still needs more. Also might be better as Spinal Muscular Atrophy rather than infantile SMA. Thoughts anyone? Markalex 16:59, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- Cocaine#Forms_of_cocaine - as it is this section should have something other than crack and freebase] - it should also be noted that crack and freebase are one and the same - and this seems oriented towards abuse only including phrases like 'produces an exhilarating rush' etc... this article's POV is that of someone commenting on drug abuse, and recreational use, should be more clinical in tone IMO, and separate abusive/recreational aspects from the pharmacological/therapeutic/clinical aspects.Pedant 02:06, 2004 Oct 25 (UTC)
- Aortic aneurysm - there are new methods for treatment, should be added, i don't know them but i will try and talk someone into doing it haha. rhyax 06:00, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC) If this is added, attention should also be given to aneurysm of sinus of Valsalva.
- Trephinning in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica - incomplete, wandering. The article quickly dissolves into nonsense. --Eequor 21:58, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Other
- Corn syrup May be linked to diabetes, but current article is rather incoherent on this point, and I don't have the expertise. Web searches show definite media interest, but need someone with some qualifications to write something both NPOV and informative Gwimpey 04:07, Nov 4, 2004 (UTC)
- I'm new, but I'm pretty sure Gwimpey's requests have been met, and it can be removed from the 'needy list' although I still have it labeled as 'stub.' rmbh 21:55, Nov 19, 2004 (UTC)
- Forensics - big subject, currently just a list of see alsos. I'm going to lsit on WP:COTW. --[[User:Bodnotbod|bodnotbod » .....TALKQuietly)]] 18:34, Sep 14, 2004 (UTC)
- Childbirth... happened to most of us once... this article needs serious updating and massage. Where are all the mothers? Erich 19:44, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Human echolocation needs some review and I suspect it lacks NPOV. I am not an expert in this field, but this article seems to present as fact something that I understood to be just a theory. Also it is written and edited by a single, anon, user. Pasd 15:34, 14 Jun 2004 (UTC)
- Electrical quackery - needs a more sedate tone! - redcountess 23:41, Feb 24, 2004 (UTC)
- Nurse assistant skills - written by high school student, edited for language by non-medical person, needs professional review for content Dpbsmith 03:13, 31 Jan 2004 (UTC)