Identification of psychosocial problems in pediatric primary care: do family attitudes make a difference?
Pediatricians'judgments about the presence of psychosocial problems in their young patients seem to be based on their own observations rather than on what parents report. Physician-parent communication about psychosocial problems will be increasingly important as primary care physicians assume their role as gatekeepers to more expensive services such as mental health interventions.
In a proportion of patients receiving an interferon-based therapy, IFN seems to influence the host's immune system, resulting in an increased CD4+/CD8+ ratio concomitantly with tumour regression. Changes in the CD4+/CD8+ ratio of patients with metastatic RCC receiving such therapy, may provide valuable prognostic information and a basis for future improvements of immunotherapy.