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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, Orthopedic Surgery, Medical Procedures and Tests, Pathology, 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: Science and Technology, Services and Shopping, Cornell University, Groceries, Health and Medical Professionals
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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: Viral Diseases and Infections, Diseases and Illnesses, Symptoms, U.S. Congress, Health and Safety at School
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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: Heart Attack, Cardiologists, Medical Research, Diseases and Illnesses, Hospitals and Clinics
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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: Nursing, Health Care Reform (2009), General Practitioners, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Medical Specialization
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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: Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Religion and Belief, Justice and Rights, U.S. Department of Justice, Teachers
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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, Islam, Religion and Belief, Jihad, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
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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: Weight Loss, Medical Research, Hospitals and Clinics, Health Treatments, American Medical Association
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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: Starbucks Corp., MRI (imaging), Conservation, Health Treatments, Health and Medical Professionals
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Acupuncture helped allergies -- a little, study says
Acupuncture gave some relief to people suffering from seasonal allergies, but the improvements didn’t last much beyond treatment, researchers said. The researchers, from several institutions in the United States and Germany, studied seasonal...
Tags: Medical Research, Allergies, Science and Technology, Chemical Industry, Physical Conditions
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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: Yale School of Medicine, Students, General Practitioners, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Teaching and Learning
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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: Medical Research, Science and Technology, Lifestyle and Leisure, Demographics, Mary MacVean
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