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Dr. Joyce Brothers dies at 85; popular TV psychologist
Fame was never her intent, Dr. Joyce Brothers often said. She was not yet 30, new to stay-at-home motherhood and struggling to help her husband stretch his pay as a medical resident when she came up with an ambitious plan: Transform herself into a...
Tags: Long Island, Philosophy, Cornell University, Entertainment, Medical Specialization
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Saying no to surgery
Thom McDaniels is no stranger to surgery. As a longtime athlete and high school football coach, he's spent years putting his knees through the wringer. After injuring his right knee again during football practice, he was told by an orthopedic surgeon that...
Tags: Insurance, Health and Medical Professionals, General Practitioners, Internal Medicine, Pathology
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Antidepressants: A help or hindrance to those facing surgery?
About 11% of Americans over age 12 take an antidepressant, making the drugs the most widely used medication in the United States. And with more than 51 million in-patient surgeries performed annually in the United States, a substantial overlap between the...
Tags: Internal Medicine, Lexapro (drug), Placebo, Chemical Industry, Depression
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Use of alertness drug modafinil takes off, spurred by untested uses
In up-all-night, work-work-work America, a prescription medication like modafinil was sure to make major inroads from the get-go. And, whether you call this novel stay-awake drug by its commercial names -- Provigil and Nuvigil -- or by its plain-Jane...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Lorazepam (drug), Security, Chemical Industry, Sleep Apnea
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After hospital care, the test begins
In 2011, my husband, Eric, a trial attorney, was felled by a brain stem stroke just before he was to board a flight at O'Hare in Chicago. He was just 53 years old with no prior health conditions or problems. From the outset, we knew his recovery and...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Pharmaceuticals, Hospitals and Clinics, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Grocery shopping on an empty stomach leads to dieting disaster
Attention dieters: If you want to maximize your chances of success, don’t go to the grocery store on an empty stomach. So says a new JAMA Internal Medicine study from two members of the Cornell University Food and Brand Lab, where researchers...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Science and Technology, Groceries, Internal Medicine, Services and Shopping
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A wife's Alzheimer's, a husband's obsession
Ken Chiate is a born problem-solver, and in the summer of 1961, when he was on break from college, his problem was a head-turning blond named Jeannette. He was head lifeguard at a public pool in Phoenix, where his father owned a liquor store. She worked...
Tags: University of California, Irvine, University of California, Los Angeles, Placebo, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Amgen Inc.
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Federal panel says everyone 15 to 65 should have HIV test
Citing recent evidence that HIV infections are best managed when treated early, an influential panel of medical experts has finalized its recommendation that all people ages 15 to 65 be screened for the virus that causes AIDS. The recommendation from...
Tags: Health and Safety at School, Internal Medicine, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, AIDS, Symptoms
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Letters: Doctors and nurses -- who will take care of us?
Re "Can't a nurse do that?," Editorial, April 21 To combat the impending physician shortage all across California, and the crisis already facing rural areas, state law absolutely must change to allow greater independence for non-physician medical...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, General Practitioners, Internal Medicine, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Nursing
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For Muslims, bad memories and new worries
There are few Muslims in the small northeast Ohio town where Karen lives with her Palestinian American husband and their five children. In a region where Amish and Mennonite women cover themselves, Karen and her 20-year-old daughter, Amanda, find the...
Tags: Internal Medicine, Crime, Law and Justice, Teachers, Philosophy, Islam
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In Boston bombing, Muslims hold their breath
Shereef Elnahal is a native of Virginia, a graduate of Harvard Medical School and a first-year internal medicine resident who helped triage explosion victims with ruptured eardrums and major limb injuries on Monday at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in...
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Al-Qaeda, Hospitals and Clinics, Internal Medicine, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
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Watch it live: The science of a healthful diet explained
As a student at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Timothy Harlan was often struck by how little the medical professionals around him seemed to know about healthful eating. Doctors would tell their patients what foods to avoid, but rarely did...
Tags: Dining and Drinking, Health and Medical Professionals, Coumadin (drug), Tulane University, Drugs and Medicines
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