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S A Doxiadis

Publications and source records attributed to S A Doxiadis.

At least 19 recordsLinked to original sources
PubMed1990

Why medical ethics?

A brief summary is given of the factors which make knowledge of and sensitivity for medical ethics necessary for all health professionals today. It is then noted that most activities in this field are centered around diagnostic and therapeutic medicine, the one-to-one, doctor-to-patient relationship. Reasons are then given why ethical dilemmas in health promotion and preventive medicine are equally or more important than in therapeutic medicine.

Ethics, Medical↗
PubMed1985

Impact of a nationwide anti-smoking campaign.

An intensive anti-smoking campaign based mainly on messages on radio and television reduced to nearly 0 the 6% annual increase in tobacco consumption in Greece. When the campaign stopped the consumption rose again at the pre-campaign rate.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1980

Effectiveness and safety of prenatal phenobarbital for the prevention of neonatal jaundice.

The effect of 100 mg of phenobarbital (PB) at bedtime for the last few wk of pregnancy on the incidence and severity of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia was studied. No effect was observed in the newborns of mothers who took less than ten tablets. In the 1310 newborns of adequately treated mothers (PB greater than or equal to 1.0 g), the incidence of marked jaundice (bilirubin > 16.0 mg/dl) and the need to perform an exchange transfusion were reduced by a factor of six in relation to the incidence in 1553 control infants. A randomly selected group of 415 children (182 control, 233 PB) were reexamined at 61 to 82 months of age. There was no difference in the overall morbidity and mortality between the control and treatment group. A detailed neurologic assessment failed to reveal any differences between the two groups. In the VisuoMotor Integration test, the PB group scored significantly better than the control group. In the Draw-A-Woman and the Verbal Intelligence Test, the difference was in the same direction but was not statistically significant. The degree of jaundice was not found to significantly influence the performance in the neurological examination and the intelligence tests. Sensorineural hearing defect was significantly more common in the children with moderate or marked jaundice (bilirubin > 12 mg/dl) than in those with lesser degrees of jaundice. Prenatal PB is a practical, effective, and safe method for decreasing the incidence of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia.

Bilirubin↗