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Early Menopause Is “Potential” Risk Factor for Heart Disease
The full Reuters story quotes the lead researcher as saying that this study does not show causality—early menopause directly causes heart events.
It does show that early menopause is a potential risk factor for heart disease.
Women who had an early menopause, in this study set at age 46, and their doctors should discuss ways to reduce [...]
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DB’s Medical Rants
“… If you tried to create the most illogical payment system with the most unintended consequences, then you would likely not create anything quite this bad.
“Outpatient medicine will not succeed until physicians abandon the insurance model. The current insurance model increases overhead, encourages shorter visits, discourages phone [...]
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It’s a Beginning…$250 Million to Expand Training for Primary Care Doctors, Graduate Nurses and Physicians’ Assistants
The primary care shortage is only going to get worse as physicians retire, the population has more Medicare beneficiaries and the combined effects of younger people with chronic diseases mean more patients than ever need care. The Prevention and Public Health Fund has released $250 million to be spent over the next five years to produce more primary care-givers—doctors, nurses and physicians’ assistants.
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“Humanism” Is An Expanding Movement in Medical Education
A new movement in medical education is seeking to restore “humanism,” the ideals which bring young people into medicine in the first place. Everything is working against this goal.
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What Will Health Care Cost You? Some Companies Are Trying to Help You “Shop”
Some companies are starting to develop health care cost comparison data so that people can “shop” for hospitals and doctors. This will not happen quickly or simply but it is important enough to start reading about now.
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Vitamin D Is Known as “Sunshine” Vitamin … Study Shows Sunshine Is Not a Reliable Source
Get out in the sunshine! It’s summer. You need it so that your Vitamin D levels are right. Wait. This study looked at how much sunshine is enough sunshine for this purpose.
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Brain Scans Scanned Long-Lasting, Still Romantic Marriages
In a study, 17 men and women who were passionately in love agreed to undergo scans to determine what lasting romantic love looks like in the brain.
Topics: Friends & Families
People Still Use the Term, Nervous Breakdown, for a Reason
Psychiatrists dismissed the notion of a “nervous breakdown” decades ago. Now nervous breakdown may be enjoying a revival as a diagnosis. European researchers are leading the way on this topic.
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New Teaching Hospital Residents May Mean More Serious Medical Errors for Patients, Study Says
Don’t go to a teaching hospital in July has been a running joke for years. A new study points to the possibility that this turn-over in July could be the cause of serious or fatal drug errors on the part of residents. Read tips about what you can do to help a patient stay safer.
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Where You Live May Determine Where You Die If You Have Heart Attack
Your neighborhood or the neighborhood of your workplace may determine whether you survive a heart attack.
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