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Exercise helps speed recovery for ICU patients
Booster ShotsThe wasting away of muscle tissue can be a serious problem for people who are hospitalized and confined to bed due to a critical illness. That lack of mobility and strength can ultimately affect recovery. But by putting patients through...... -
Extra pounds, and attitudes about them, can affect doctor-patient relationships
Booster ShotsDoctors can be fairly significant, one would think, in helping people combat obesity-related health problems. But a good working relationship usually begins with respect. And that might be a stumbling block. In a new study, researchers at Johns Hopkins... -
Rodent of the Week: New use for an old drug
Booster ShotsResearch can be serendipitous. Sometimes doctors will stumble on an effective medication or they will find a drug they expected to work on one condition actually helps another. Such is the case with a gonorrhea medication developed in the 1930s....... -
Rapid, irregular heartbeats while exercising may not spell doom
Booster ShotsThe feeling can be scary: While exercising, the heart begins to beat quickly and irregularly for a short period of time. No wonder, then, that many people who experience it stop working out, afraid that they might have a heart...... -
Dr. Arnall Patz dies at 89; helped eliminate major cause of blindness
Dr. Arnall Patz, a Johns Hopkins University physician who discovered and eliminated a major cause of blindness in children, died Thursday of heart disease at his home in Pikesville, Md. He was 89.
The director emeritus of the Wilmer Eye Institute at...Tags: Helen Keller, Death, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, World War II (1939-1945), Medical Research
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Advice through texting aims to reduce preterm births
Aiming to cut down on the high number of premature births across the nation, a new program will offer words of advice for pregnant women in a place that will be hard to miss: on their cellphones.
The free text messages will be sent every week and will...Tags: Medical Services, Corruption, Corporate Crime, Networking, Schools
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Martin Ernest Dannenberg dies at 94; found copy of Nuremberg Laws during WWII
Martin Ernest Dannenberg, who as a young World War II Army sergeant discovered a copy of the anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws, one of Nazi Germany's most infamous documents, died Aug. 18 in his sleep at his home in Guilford, Md. He was 94.
-------------------...Tags: Defense, Germany, Nazi Party, Guilford (Baltimore, Maryland), Crime, Law and Justice
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Frank C. Garland dies at 60; epidemiologist helped show importance of vitamin D
Frank C. Garland, the UC San Diego epidemiologist who, with his brother Cedric, was the first to demonstrate that vitamin D deficiencies play a role in cancer and other diseases, died Aug. 17 at UCSD Thornton Hospital. He was 60 and had been suffering for...Tags: University of California, San Diego, Medical Research, Health and Safety at School, Breast Cancer, Cancer
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Add 'assess surgeon's job satisfaction' to that presurgical check list
Booster ShotsA tired surgeon is one thing. But a burned-out surgeon ... now there's cause for concern. A survey conducted by researchers at Johns Hopkins University found that surgeons who were burned out and depressed were more likely to report major...... -
Needle sticks can be a job hazard for medical students
Booster ShotsAlmost every job has its hazards, but some have more than others. Case in point: medical students and needle-stick injuries. A new study finds that medical students often come in too-close contact with needles, possibly putting them at risk for...... -
Hermien Lee dies at 92; no-nonsense nutritionist to the stars
Hermien M. Lee, a Beverly Hills nutritionist who taught her no-nonsense approach to eating right to a variety of stars including Ann-Margret, Joan Lunden, Suzanne Somers and Robert Wagner, has died. She was 92. Lee died of heart failure June 18 in...Tags: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Children, Weight Loss, Death, Obituaries
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Henrietta Lacks' 'Immortal' roots
When a freak snowstorm shut down the Memphis, Tenn., airport late last month, Rebecca Skloot's flight to New York was canceled. So Skloot drove five hours to St. Louis to catch a plane from there. The science journalist had spent 10 years working on her...Tags: Amazon.com Inc., African Americans, Health and Safety at School, Cancer, Science and Technology
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