#PWChat Recap: Diabetes Management in the Cardiovascular Outcome Trial Era
Physician’s Weekly co-hosted another installment of the #PWChat series on Monday, Nov. 27 to...
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Frequent Mouthwash Use Could Lead to Type 2 Diabetes
A new study from Harvard University claims that frequent mouthwash use is associated with a higher...
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Genetic Factors Linked to Acquired Narrowing of the Airway
Endotracheal intubation, in which a tube is inserted through the voice box (larynx) into the...
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New Research Reveals High-Intensity Exercise Boosts Memory
The health advantages of high-intensity exercise are widely known but new research from McMaster...
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Researchers Discover Key to Regenerating Blood Vessels
A new study led by researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP)...
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Promising New Treatment for Rare Pregnancy Cancer Leads to Remission in Patients
Three out of four patients with the cancerous forms of gestational trophoblastic disease (GTD)...
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Under New Guidelines, Half of Americans Have Unhealthy, High Blood Pressure
Nearly half of U.S. adults now have high blood pressure, thanks to a new definition of what...
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New Blood Test Developed to Diagnose Ovarian Cancer
Investigators from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute are...
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First Brain Training Exercise Positively Linked to Dementia Prevention Identified
Aging research specialists have identified, for the first time, a form of mental exercise that can...
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Some Cancer Therapies May Provide a New Way to Treat High Blood Pressure
Drugs designed to halt cancer growth may offer a new way to control high blood pressure...
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#PWChat Recap – Ketamine for Depression: Exciting but Controversial
Physician’s Weekly continued its #PWChat series on Thursday, Nov. 16, with Steven P. Levine,...
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Gut Microbes Can Protect Against High Blood Pressure
The MIT team, working with researchers in Germany, found that in both mice and humans, a high-salt...
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Know Your ICD-10 Code
ICD-10, which is the 10th revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and...
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FDA Approves Pill with Sensor that Digitally Tracks if Patients have Ingested their Medication
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the first drug in the U.S. with a digital...
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Exercise Increases Brain Size, New Study Shows
In a first of its kind international collaboration, researchers from Australia’s National...
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Breakthrough in Fibrotic Diseases that Cause Organ Failure
Researchers from Duke-NUS Medical School (Duke-NUS) and the National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS)...
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Engineering Non-Immune Cells to Kill Cancer Cells
Researchers have reprogrammed normal human cells to create designer immune cells capable of...
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Common Genetic Fusion Event May Be Associated with Low-Risk Prostate Cancer
Establishing the way in which a genetic alteration called a TMPRSS2-ERG gene fusion forms in a...
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Osteoporosis-Related Bone Fractures Linked to Air Pollution
Exposure to air pollution is associated with osteoporosis-related loss of bone mineral density and...
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Talking to Patients About High Quality and Potential Cost-Savings of Generic Medications
From 2005 to 2014, generic drugs saved the U.S. health care system 1.68 trillion dollars....
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