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Ethics guide for rural MDs
Nov 10, 2009 |
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With an eye to small-town health professionals as well as to the people training students to practice medicine beyond metropolitan settings, Dartmouth's Department of Community and Family Medicine is unveiling the Handbook ...
Repeat pregnancies among UK teenagers on the increase
Jan 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An expert in health services at The University of Nottingham is calling for urgent action to improve contraceptive advice and services to reduce the growing number of repeat teenage pregnancies in the United ...
MU fitness expert creates MyActivity Pyramid to help adults exercise (Video)
Feb 12, 2009 |
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The MyActivity Pyramid, a new fitness guide developed by a University of Missouri Extension fitness specialist, provides physical activity recommendations for adults in a fun and easy-to-understand format. ...
Bad medicine: Health care can cause harm when focus is on providing services instead of improving health
Jul 01, 2009 |
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Are individuals, families, communities and employers getting their money's worth from US healthcare? That's the big question in the news today, pushed further into the spotlight by the Obama administration.
Choosing a Low Radiation Cell Phone
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Sep 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An Environmental Working Group (EWG) team has released a consumer guide on the radiation levels emitted by over 1,000 cell phones sold in the U.S. The guide is the most comprehensive ever ...
New Web site promotes interoperable newborn screening data
Sep 15, 2009 |
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The National Library of Medicine (NLM) today launched the Newborn Screening Coding and Terminology Guide, an important step toward efficient electronic exchange of standard newborn screening data. The new Web site was created ...
Insurers shun those taking certain meds and secretly keep blacklist
Mar 30, 2009 |
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Trying to buy health insurance on your own and have gallstones? You'll automatically be denied coverage. Rheumatoid arthritis? Automatic denial. Severe acne? Probably denied. Do you take Metformin, a popular drug for diabetes? ...
Brown expert offers guide to end-of-life care
Feb 10, 2009 |
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Years ago, dying patients in most communities often had a single option if they needed hospice care. Now they have many more; competition reigns.
Guide on lung cancer in 'never-smokers': A different disease and different treatments
Sep 16, 2009 |
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A committee of scientists led by Johns Hopkins investigators has published a new guide to the biology, diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer in never-smokers, fortifying measures for what physicians have long known is a ...
New computer security guide can help safeguard your small business (w/ Video)
Oct 06, 2009 |
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Just in time for October's Cyber Security Awareness Month, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has published a guide to help small businesses and organizations understand how to provide basic security for their ...
New obesity staging system may help doctors measure up
Feb 10, 2009 |
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A new system proposed by Canadian and US obesity researchers may provide another weapon in the battle against obesity. University of Alberta obesity expert Dr. Arya Sharma, along with a researcher from Northwestern ...
Global health experts release new guidance on malaria elimination
Apr 24, 2009 |
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Countries and policy leaders gain new guidance today on how and when to eliminate malaria, paving the way for the potential global eradication of the deadly disease. The announcement is being made on behalf of the Malaria ...
Less than half of medical students understand health care system
Sep 30, 2009 |
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Less than half of graduating medical students in the U.S. say they received adequate training in understanding health care systems and the economics of practicing medicine, according to a study conducted by the University ...
As health goes awry, doctor-patient relationship more than a nicety
Jul 07, 2009 |
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The cornerstone of a good doctor-patient relationship begins with the doctor's ability to clarify a patient's preferences and values, especially during a difficult diagnosis, a commentary in the Journal of the American Me ...
Blood test helps guide treatment and can impact quality of life for breast cancer patients
Sep 14, 2009 |
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With the goal of tailoring cancer interventions for the individual, researchers at the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown have published the results of a prospective study that validates the use of a simple ...
