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Experts Call for Increased Neonatal Inclusion in Pediatric Drug Trials
October 25, 2012 Clinical drug trials are a vital part of pharmaceutical manufacturers gaining approval for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. A new commentary assesses the issues surrounding the lack of ... > full story -
Conscience Legislation Ignores Medical Providers Committed to Giving Patients All Necessary Care
October 25, 2012 Advances in medicine allow doctors to keep patients alive longer, tackle fertility problems and extend the viability of premature babies. They also lead to a growing number of moral questions for ... > full story -
Heart Attack Victims in Rich, White Neighborhoods Twice as Likely to Get CPR Than People Who Collapse in Poor, Black Neighborhoods
October 24, 2012 In the first study of its kind, researchers have found that those who suffer cardiac arrests in upper income, white neighborhoods are nearly twice as likely to get cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) ... > full story -
Survival of U.S. Affordable Care Act Assessed in New Commentaries
October 24, 2012 As the presidential candidates clash over the fate of the U.S. Affordable Care Act, a set of seven essays by leading legal experts, economists, and scholars examines the implications of the Supreme ... > full story -
Limitations to the 'Revolutionary' Findings of Online Studies
October 23, 2012 'Direct to consumer' research, using data obtained through increasingly popular online communities, has methodological limitations that are known to epidemiological studies, including selection bias, ... > full story -
Product Regulatory Systems in Low-and Middle-Income Countries Must Be Strengthened, Experts Argue
October 23, 2012 When regulatory systems for medical products in low-and middle-income countries work, people live but when such systems fail, people die, according to ... > full story -
Lives Could Be Saved by Removing Age Restrictions on Rotavirus Vaccination, Study Suggests
October 23, 2012 A new study, which suggests that the additional children's lives saved by removing the age restrictions for rotavirus vaccination in low- and middle-income countries would be much greater than any ... > full story -
Medical Recommendations Should Go Beyond Race, Scholar Says
October 23, 2012 Medical organizations that make race-based recommendations are misleading some patients about health risks while reinforcing harmful notions about race, a professor argues in a new ... > full story -
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Researchers Map Strategy for 'Choosing Wisely' on Low-Value Health Care Services
October 23, 2012 Cutting the expenses associated with "low-value" medical tests and treatments -- such as unnecessary imaging tests and antibiotics for viral infections that won't benefit from them -- will require a ... > full story -
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Amish Children Are Twice as Physically Active as Non-Amish Children Are, Study Finds
October 23, 2012 Old Order Amish children are much more physically active and three times less likely to be overweight than non-Amish children, which may provide them with some long-term protection against developing ... > full story
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