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Lowering the Blow
Aug 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Serving lower-alcohol drinks at public events can help reduce the number of people who need medical attention.
Probing question: What is 'Talk and Die' Syndrome?
Jun 25, 2009 |
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Ah, summer! Season of baseball, bike rides, barbecues -- and head injuries. There’s nothing like warm weather to get people outside and active, and nothing like activity to fill up an emergency room.
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Scientists discover neurons that 'mirror' the attention of others
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 18, 2009 |
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Whether a monkey is looking to the left or merely watching another monkey looking that way, the same neurons in his brain are firing, according to researchers at the Duke University Medical Center.
Seeing without looking
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
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Like a spotlight that illuminates an otherwise dark scene, attention brings to mind specific details of our environment while shutting others out. A new study by researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological ...
The blood detective
Dec 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) --UCI hematologist Dr. Jae Chang employs medical sleuthing skills to identify rare blood disorders.
Psychotherapy may improve course of medical disorders
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 22, 2009 |
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Somatic symptom disorders are common, disabling and costly. This meta-analysis indicates how short-term dynamic psychotherapy may be effective on physical symptoms, psychiatric symptoms and social adjustment, even in the ...
Increase in 'academic doping' could spark routine urine tests for exam students
Medicine & Health / Medications
Sep 30, 2009 |
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The increasing use of smart drugs or "nootropics," to boost academic performance, could mean that exam students will face routine doping tests in future, suggests an article in the Journal of Medical Ethics.
Research: Improving treatment of patients with heart attack
Jun 25, 2009 |
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When faced with patients suffering a heart attack, doctors have two choices: inject them with medication to dissolve the blood clot (fibrinolytic therapy) or insert a small balloon to open the blocked artery (primary percutaneous ...
Diagnoses of fatigue in primary care patients
Oct 26, 2009 |
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Patients who visit their family doctors for fatigue have a wide range of diagnoses yet the prevalence of serious illness was low, according to a Dutch study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).
Both distress and fatigue impact resident physician errors, study finds
Sep 22, 2009 |
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Mayo Clinic researchers report that distress and fatigue among medical residents are independent contributors to self-perceived medical errors. The findings appear today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) ...
Personality predicts success in medical school, says new study
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 03, 2009 |
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Personality characteristics play a major role in determining who succeeds in medical school, according to new research published in the November issue of the Journal of Applied Psychology. The study, co-authored by Univer ...
Poor attention in kindergarten predicts lower high school test scores
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 26, 2009 |
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As thousands of students nationwide prepare to leave high school, a UC Davis study appearing online today in the June issue of the medical journal Pediatrics shows a clear link between attention problems early in school — as ...
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