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A physician, medical practitioner, doctor of medicine, doctor of osteopathic medicine, or medical doctor practices medicine, and is concerned with maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease and injury. This is accomplished through a detailed knowledge of anatomy, physiology, diseases and treatment — the science of medicine — and its applied practice — the art or craft of medicine.

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Physicians knowledge of childhood food allergies needs room for improvement

Medicine & Health / Health

created 13 hours ago | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

With an estimated four to six percent of children in the U.S. suffering from food allergies, a new study shows that pediatricians and family physicians aren't always confident they have the ability to diagnose or treat food ...


A virtual physician's conference

A virtual physician's conference

Technology / Software

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Telemedicine facilitates communication between family physicians, hospitals and nursing services -- yet current solutions lack flexibility and are consequently very expensive. A new software program is now ...


Most primary-care physician practices appear too small to adequately measure quality

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Most primary care physicians active in the Medicare program work in practices with too few patients to reliably measure significant differences in common measures of quality and cost performance, according to a study in the ...





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Disagreement Over Mammography Task Force Study

Disagreement Over Mammography Task Force Study

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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When a government-appointed panel of experts released new guidelines last month calling for fewer routine mammograms, they were met with public confusion, political outrage, and a media storm that left women ...


Santa is ready to ride! (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Other

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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of UNC medical experts say that Santa is tanned, rested and ready for the big ride he has coming up.


The blood detective

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) --UCI hematologist Dr. Jae Chang employs medical sleuthing skills to identify rare blood disorders.


Rapid cardiac biomarker testing system developed by Singapore scientists

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists at Singapore's Institute of Microelectronics (IME) have developed a rapid and sensitive integrated system to test simultaneously for specific cardiac biomarkers in finger prick amount of blood.


Brain imaging shows kids' PTSD symptoms linked to poor hippocampus function

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Psychological trauma leaves a trail of damage in a child's brain, say scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital. Their new study gives the first direct evidence that children ...


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Coffee Consumption Associated with Reduced Risk of Advanced Prostate Cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- While it is too early for physicians to start advising their male patients to take up the habit of regular coffee drinking, data presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Frontiers ...


Higher risk for heart disease and diabetes associated with androgen deprivation therapy

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Men of all ages treated for prostate cancer with androgen deprivation therapy, specifically with gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonists (GnRH), have an increased risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease, according to ...


Not all parents place their babies 'back to sleep,' research finds

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Placing infants on their backs for sleep can help reduce the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). But a study by Yale School of Medicine researchers and their colleagues shows that while the practice helped reduce ...


Coin tosses can be easily rigged: study

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (8) | comments 12

The ubiquitous coin toss is not so random after all, and can easily be manipulated to turn up heads, or tails, a Canadian study has found.


With amino acid diet, mice improve after brain injury

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Neurology researchers have shown that feeding amino acids to brain-injured animals restores their cognitive abilities and may set the stage for the first effective treatment for cognitive impairments suffered by people with ...



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