Tag: health
member name: jonathan H.
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May 22, 2007 08:48 PM EDT --
Genine,
I've posted your e-mail (see below) with my response without asking you. Let me know if I should delete this article.
I'm happy to comment on your health care examples, but I think you'd . . .
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August 12, 2007 01:10 PM EDT --
New data from a 32-year investigation indicate that obesity spreads contagiously among networks of friends and relatives. This may be due to permissive attitudes toward obesity among friends.
The . . .
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October 19, 2007 08:39 PM EDT --
I had the pleasure of using the medical library archives this week.
I performed an autopsy on a woman who was insensitive to thyroid hormone (her body acted as if she didn’t have a thyroid gland . . .
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May 24, 2008 05:28 PM EDT --
I'm reposting this articel from Medscape in case you missed it.
Prerna Mona Khanna, MD, MPH
Medscape J Med. 2008;10(5):113.
At this point, it really doesn't . . .
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June 09, 2008 07:04 PM EDT --
The US Environmental Protection Agency and the State of California have endorsed a meta-analysis of passive sun exposure and skin cancer published in the British Medical Journal.
Secondhand sun . . .
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November 14, 2009 10:31 AM EST --
(sorry, another re-post).
http://www.aafp.org/fpm/20080200/12anew.html
2008, Vol. 15, No. 2, pages 12-6
A New Model of Charitable Care: The Robin Hood Practice
This self-sustaining . . .
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August 06, 2009 01:24 PM EDT --
http://boards.medscape.com/forums?128@709.FcguauOhcl4@.29f5291b!comment=1
(Diet studies related to specific foods are always suspect)
Samuel Grief
Dr. Samuel N. Grief, MD, FCFP is associate . . .
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June 25, 2009 07:31 PM EDT --
I came across this fascinating study from University of Pittsburgh.
I’ll have to be careful the next time I tell a kid “you look just like your mom”-it might force to an awkward . . .
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February 28, 2009 10:34 AM EST --
Miranda Hitti - WebMD Health News 2009.
February 26, 2009 — About a third of common adult cancers may be preventable in the U.S. -- and that doesn't even count cancers that could be prevented . . .
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April 10, 2009 04:37 PM EDT --
I wanted to spotlight this news item from medscape.
I work on improving screening methods for ovarian cancer and face similar challenges.
Some of the main points are:
1) It is that . . .
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October 01, 2009 02:18 PM EDT --
I was throwing away some old medical texts and found this Monty-Python like image.
The giant finger and over-worded explanation made me laugh.
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March 22, 2009 10:47 AM EDT --
Evidence-Based Medicine: Do Clinical Practice Guidelines Contribute to Better Patient Care? -- An Expert Interview With Drs. Joseph O. Jacobson and Antonio C. Wolff
Joseph . . .
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July 27, 2007 09:31 PM EDT --
The New York State Department of Health has just come out with a plan for rationing ventilators in case of an influenza pandemic. The related discussions highlight the ethical dilemmas of withdrawing . . .
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May 01, 2007 07:19 AM EDT --
The laws regarding funding of FDA drug safety research/testing is up for renewal.
The New England Journal has posted a great debate on the issue.
I will include both the links and text of the articles . . .
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May 01, 2007 07:20 AM EDT --
The laws regarding funding of FDA drug safety research/testing is up for renewal.
The New England Journal has posted a great debate on the issue.
I will include both the links and text . . .
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March 11, 2008 07:41 PM EDT --
Finally, a great description of my job...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFb7smyVEyg
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December 01, 2007 02:47 PM EST --
Google has invested in a company offering a $1,000. genetic test that allows participants to trace their evolutionary ancestry and calculate the genetic risk of various diseases. The site ( 23and me.com . . .
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January 31, 2008 09:32 PM EST --
I've been thinking of Kotel Notes, the custom of placing prayers on scraps of paper into cracks of the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem.
(Nowadays, you can even pray by proxy by sending an e-mail to a . . .
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March 09, 2008 09:44 AM EDT --
I just returned from our Academy of Pathology meeting in Denver. Chris Fletcher from BWH delivered a pessimistic keynote lecture on the "future of academic pathology."
He sited . . .
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December 20, 2007 09:35 PM EST --
Background:
I recently attended a lecture by Dr. George Lundberg, the editor of MedGenMed, the largest online open-access (free) peer-reviewed medical journal. Lundberg is a bit of a crackpot, but very . . .
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