Development of an evidence-based decision aid on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and pain for parents of children with cancer.

Purpose: To develop an evidence-based decision aid for parents of children with cancer and to help guide them in the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) for cancer care.

Methods: This study had a mixed research design. The needs of parents were investigated by survey and focus group.

The usefulness of an oral calcium tolerance test in the choice of management of patients with idiopathic hypercalciuria.

We studied 40 patients with calcium urolithiasis and idiopathic hypercalciuria in an attempt to identify patients with an absorptive or renal type of hypercalciuria. An oral calcium tolerance test was performed in all patients, resulting in a rise in serum calcium in all cases (2.35 +/- 0.

[HIV-2 infection in a Portuguese woman with an AIDS-dementia complex living in The Netherlands].

The case history is presented of the first patient with a fatal HIV-2 infection in The Netherlands, a Portuguese woman aged 51 yr. The infection resulted in AIDS, the AIDS-dementia complex and death. Her partner, a retired Cape Verde sailor, also proved to be infected with HIV-2.

Aggravation of hypoglycemia in insulinoma patients by the long-acting somatostatin analogue octreotide (Sandostatin).

Recently somatostatin analogues were successfully used to control insulin-induced hypoglycemia in patients with insulinoma. We observed a transient decrease in glucose levels and symptomatic hypoglycemia after administration of the long-acting somatostatin-analogue octreotide (Sandostatin) in two insulinoma patients. We studied the acute effects of octreotide (administered before breakfast) on blood glucose and gluco-regulatory hormones in these patients.