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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: Lexapro (drug), Heart Disease, Health and Medical Professionals, Pharmaceuticals, Chemical Industry
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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: Pathology, Insurance, Internists, Medical Procedures and Tests, General Practitioners
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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: Cornell University, Internists, Health and Medical Professionals, Services and Shopping, Science and Technology
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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: Symptoms, HIV, Retroviruses, Health and Medical Professionals, Viral Diseases and Infections
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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: Internists, General Practitioners, Health and Medical Professionals, Health Care Reform (2009), 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: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Philosophy, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice and Rights
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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: Hospitals and Clinics, Religion and Belief, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Internists, Islam
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More gun laws reduce violent deaths. Or do they?
Research on gun violence is staging a roaring comeback in the nation's leading medical journals, with a study published this week linking the strength of states' gun laws to varying rates of gun violence across the United States. The new study,...
Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Laws, Crime, Law and Justice, Book, Criminal Laws
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Cash for pounds makes cents in greenback diet
What's a pound of flesh worth? Dieters at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota apparently think it's worth at least five bucks. A yearlong study of incentives in dieting found that the majority of 100 obese participants met a goal of losing four pounds per...
Tags: Mayo Clinic, Hospitals and Clinics, Internists, Health and Medical Professionals, Weight
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The Starbucks syndrome in healthcare
"In Scotland, death is considered imminent; in Canada, it's considered inevitable. In California, death is considered optional." Ian Morrison, a Scottish-born futurist and healthcare consultant, was joking when he said those words. But not entirely....
Tags: Physical Therapy, Health and Medical Professionals, Environmental Issues, Health Treatments, Conservation
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Match Day 2013 results are good for future internal-medicine patients
America’s future doctors are increasingly interested in become primary-care physicians -- good news for America’s future patients. Friday was “Match Day,” the day when fourth-year medical students find out where they’ll...
Tags: Students, Internists, Health and Medical Professionals, General Practitioners, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Study finds association between processed meat and disease
Another study has found an association between eating meat and premature death, this time linking the consumption of bacon, sausage and other processed meats with cardiovascular disease and cancer in a study of nearly a half-million Europeans. "Overall,...
Tags: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Mary MacVean, Heart Disease, Health and Medical Professionals, Sausages
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