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Kingston Hospital is an acute hospital in Kingston upon Thames, England. It is managed by the Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust . It has an Accident & Emergency Unit , a popular midwife-led Maternity unit, and an STD clinic known as the Wolverton Centre.
Kingston Hospital – Kingston upon Thames; Lister Hospital – Chelsea (independent) The London Clinic – Westminster (independent) Portland Hospital – Marylebone/Fitzrovia (independent) The Princess Grace Hospital – Marylebone (independent) Priory Hospital, Roehampton – Roehampton (independent) Queen Mary's Hospital – Roehampton
The directory is used by: NHS 111; Choose and Book; NHS Pathways; NHS Choices; In 2005 Peter Davies a former NHS head of communications set up a scheme enabling primary care trusts to provide directory-type information in the Yellow Pages directory. By setting up a national agreement with Yellow Pages he hoped to keep costs down and solve the ...
The Kingston General Hospital (KGH) site is an acute-care teaching hospital affiliated with Queen's University located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.Along with the Hotel Dieu Hospital (HDH) site, these hospitals form Kingston Health Sciences Centre which delivers health care services to more than 500,000 residents throughout southeastern Ontario; conducts health care research and trains future ...
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, established 1 November 1991 as Airedale NHS Trust, [2] authorised as a foundation trust on 1 June 2010. [3]Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, established 21 December 1990 as Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital and Community Services NHS Trust, [4] changed its name to The Royal Liverpool Children's National Health Service Trust on 15 March 1996, [5 ...
Hull Royal Infirmary is a tertiary teaching hospital and is one of the two main hospitals for Kingston upon Hull (the other being Castle Hill Hospital in nearby Cottingham). It is situated on Anlaby Road, just outside the city centre, and is run by Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust .
Octreotide is used for the treatment of growth hormone producing tumors (acromegaly and gigantism), when surgery is contraindicated, pituitary tumors that secrete thyroid-stimulating hormone (thyrotropinoma), [citation needed] diarrhea and flushing episodes associated with carcinoid syndrome, and diarrhea in people with vasoactive intestinal peptide-secreting tumors ().
Acromegaly is usually caused by the pituitary gland producing excess growth hormone. In more than 95% of cases, the excess production is due to a benign tumor, known as a pituitary adenoma. The condition is not inherited. Acromegaly is rarely due to a tumor in another part of the body.