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Vitamin fads come and go. Vitamins have been in the news lately for several reasons.
Read about what four experts do and what they recommend for you in the network’s Empowered Patient feature.
CNN
Source:  CNN,  November 13, 2008

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As the conclusion notes, not everyone makes health care decisions every year which call for quality information.
How often do you pick a doctor? A hospital? A health plan? Examining consumers’ use of quality comparisons for those purposes is the focus of this survey.
Kaiser Family Foundation
“The 2008 Update on Consumers’ Views of Patient Safety and […]

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If there is any aspect of food which is not highly charged, it is hard to think what it might be.
Because obesity has become a global problem, researchers are looking for unknown causes, interventions and preventive strategies which can help patients and their doctors.
BBC
“The brain’s response to food is linked to future weight gain […]

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued new standards for the lead particles in the air we breathe.
Associated Press
“EPA officials, under a federal court order to set a new standard by midnight Wednesday, said the limit would better protect public health, especially for children. They can inhale lead particles released from smelters, mines […]

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Journal of the American Medical Association
“Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is primarily a systems problem of local communities. It is important that clinicians advocate in their communities to establish an optimal response and treatment system for patients to have a reasonable chance of resuscitation. Survival is generally a reflection of the emergency medical services (EMS)and acute […]

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Public health doctors are ones who care for you but whom you never see.
They have just done so. There now is a fast influenza test which will enable public health officials to identify seasonal and avian (bird) flu patterns quickly.
Were there to be a pandemic, which refers to how many cases there are, knowing the […]

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The American Heart Association issued a new clinical guideline, which recommends depression screening for heart attack patients.
Untreated depression may contribute to a second heart attack.
The cause? Unknown at this time.
Reuters
“Heart patients should be screened routinely for depression, a common complication that can make a second heart attack more likely, according to guidelines released by […]

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Kids now are lucky enough to be able to take courses in how to study or how to learn.
Learning how to use health information will be a life-long process for most of us and, usually, we are in study hall all by ourselves when we are Googling away.
Information isn’t power if you can’t find […]

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The Government Accountability Office has released a report on its investigation into the Food and Drug Administration:
“While FDA has considered fresh produce safety a priority for many years, resource constraints and other work — including counterterrorism efforts and unplanned events such as foodborne illness outbreaks — have caused FDA to delay key produce […]

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A study of the lifestyle habits of the Amish by the University of Maryland confirms that exercise, not dieting, is the key to weight loss:
It’s no illusion that some people pack on the pounds more easily than others despite a similar diet and level of physical exertion. In recent years researchers have found […]