Two Types of Skin Cancer are on the Rise
New diagnoses for two types of skin cancer increased in recent years, according to a Mayo...
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Physicians Practice: Is Your Patient Telling the Truth?
The author of this article is Martin Merritt, JD, a Dallas-based health lawyer with the firm of...
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Mayo Clinic Provides Answers on Life Expectancy for People with Parkinson’s Disease, Lewy Body Dementia
A new Mayo Clinic study in today’s JAMA Neurology has some answers for patients with...
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Hundreds of Thousands of Strokes May Be Preventable Each Year
Many patients with an irregular heartbeat, known as atrial fibrillation, are not receiving...
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Bariatric Surgery & Long-Term Weight Loss
Bariatric surgery has become one of the most effective interventions for inducing weight loss...
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Team Discovers How to Overcome Gram-Negative Bacterial Defenses
Scientists report that they now know how to build a molecular Trojan horse that can penetrate...
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Common Antibiotics Linked to Increased Risk of Miscarriage
Many classes of common antibiotics, such as macrolides, quinolones, tetracyclines, sulfonamides...
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Acute Treatments for Pediatric Migraine
According to recent estimates, about 250,000 children and adolescents present to the ED each year...
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Helping Clinicians Through Traumatic Events Also Helps the Bottom Line, Analysis Shows
A peer-support program launched six years ago at Johns Hopkins Medicine to help doctors and nurses...
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Half of All Seniors Who Went to Doctor for Common Cold Prescribed Unnecessary Antibiotics
Nearly one in two seniors in Ontario who visited a family doctor for a non-bacterial infection...
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The COPD-Anxiety Connection
Despite being the third leading cause of death in the United States, COPD is the focus of far...
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Low-Sodium Diet Might Not Lower Blood Pressure
Lynn L. Moore, DSc, associate professor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine, will...
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#PWChat Recap: A Look at the U.S. Opioid Epidemic
Physician’s Weekly and Dr. Linda Girgis hosted their continuing series of live TweetChats on...
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Widespread Vitamin D Deficiency Likely Due to Sunscreen Use, Increase of Chronic Diseases
Results from a clinical review published in The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association...
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Guideline Update for Heart Failure Treatment
According to data from the Heart Failure Society of America (HFSA), heart failure (HF) is a common...
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Comparing Back Pain Management Strategies
Chronic low back pain ranks as a leading cause of functional disability among adults in the United...
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One in Three American Adults May Have Had a Warning Stroke
About one in three American adults experienced a symptom consistent with a warning or...
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Time Allocation Among Physicians
More than half of physicians practicing in the United States have some sign of burnout, according...
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Personalized Psychiatry Matches Therapy to Specific Patients with Depression
Examining new personalized and precision psychiatry approaches, a new study in Personalized...
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Atrial Fibrillation Ablation & Anticoagulant Use
“The prevailing consensus is that oral anticoagulation should be continued for at least 2 to 3...
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