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Societal Control of Sugar Essential to Ease Public Health Burden, Experts Urge
Sugar should be controlled
like alcohol and tobacco to
protect public health,
according to a team of
researchers, who maintain in
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Legionnaires' Disease Outbreak Linked to Hospital's Decorative Fountain
A 2010 outbreak of
Legionnaires' disease in
Wisconsin has been linked to
a decorative fountain in a
hospital lobby, according to
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Dementia Patients Face Burdensome Transitions in Last 90 Days
Health-care transitions,
such as moves from the
nursing home to the
hospital, can result in
medical errors, lack of care
coordination, and for
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Financial Burden of Prescription Drugs Is Dropping, U.S. Study Finds
February 8, 2012 — The financial challenge Americans face paying out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs has declined, but the costs remain a burden to many families, according to a new study. Despite the ... > full story -
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Knee Replacement May Lower a Patient's Risk for Mortality and Heart Failure, Study Suggests
February 7, 2012 — New research highlights the benefits of total knee ... > full story -
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Medical Debt Keeps Rising, New Report Shows
February 6, 2012 — A comprehensive new report on health insurance shows the so-called Great Recession caused hundreds of thousands of Californians to lose coverage and acquire medical ... > full story -
The Butterfly Effect in Nanotech Medical Diagnostics
February 6, 2012 — Tiny metallic nanoparticles that shimmer in the light like the scales on a butterfly's wing are set to become the color-change components of a revolutionary new approach to point-of-care medical ... > full story -
Combined Approach to Global Health Has Benefits
February 6, 2012 — A new analysis demonstrates that confronting several diseases at once is a viable way to make the most of thinly stretched donor dollars and national health care budgets, and help save more ... > full story -
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Mind Over Matter: Patients' Perceptions of Illness Make a Difference
January 27, 2012 — Whenever we fall ill, there are many different factors that come together to influence the course of our illness. Additional medical conditions, stress levels, and social support all have an impact ... > full story -
Obesity
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Physician’s Weight May Influence Obesity Diagnosis and Care
January 26, 2012 — New research suggests obesity practices and beliefs differ by physician body mass ... > full story -
More on Legal Remedies for Ghostwriting
January 24, 2012 — In an essay that expands on a previous proposal to use the courts to prosecute those involved in ghostwriting on the basis of it being legal fraud, Xavier Bosch from the University of Barcelona, ... > full story -
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Children With ADHD Benefit from Healthy Lifestyle Options as First-Line Treatment
January 24, 2012 — Every year between 3 and 10 percent of school-age children in this country are diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Increasingly, families are using natural or ... > full story -
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Study Examines Research on Overuse of Health Care Services
January 23, 2012 — The overuse of health care services in the United States appears to be an understudied problem with research literature limited to a few services and rates of overuse varying widely, according to a ... > full story
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