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How Can a Doctor Choose Medications for Patients Without Data Comparing New Ones to Existing Ones? Half of the Time, They Don’t Have That
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Which Medical Schools Produce the “Best” Doctors?
This is from the Doctor and Patient column by Pauline W. Chen, M.D. Her topic is about a hot debate in medical education and which schools produce the “best” doctors.
The New York Times
Source: New York Times, June 18, 2010
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Coffee or Tea Daily May Reduce Heart Disease risk
The study says that drinking coffee or tea daily can help lower cardiac disease risk by 20% to 33%, depending on the amount consumed.
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SpaghettiOs with Meatballs Recalled by Campbell Soup
“Campbell Soup Co. is recalling 15 million pounds of SpaghettiOs with meatballs after a cooker malfunctioned at one of the company’s plants in Texas and left the meat undercooked,” reports the AP.
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Benadryl and Tylenol Recall Expanded
This recall, the full CNN story says, is due to an odor which permeated bottles and pills.
CNN
“The maker of Benadryl and Tylenol has added five lots of the popular over-the-counter drugs to its growing list of recalled products, McNeil Consumer Healthcare announced Wednesday in a written statement.
“Saying the drugs were “inadvertently omitted [...]
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Are You A Hard Worker? A Work Addict? Want to Find Out? Now’s Your Chance
The Wall Street Journal
Rate yourself on the Work Addiction Risk Test, which is part of a story about people who go on vacation and can’t relax or work so much people do not know they are away.
Source: Wall Street Journal, June 16, 2010
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More Than 15% of Americans Have No Health Insurance
The CDC released a survey today which described who has health insurance, who doesn’t and what the trends are. The bad news is that 15% of adults don’t have coverage. The good news is that more children are covered.
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Four More Foods Which Help You Lower Risk of Type 2 Diabetes
Yesterday’s news was that mixing whole grains with white rice in a single serving could reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes risk by 16%. If the serving is composed of all whole grains, the benefits are even higher.
Today, this news magazine offers information about four more foods which can help bring down this disease [...]
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Seven Alzheimer’s Risks to Consider…What Can You Do About Them?
A recent “state of the science” report on what is known about Alzheimer’s disease was as discouraging as it gets.
This is a clear explanation of that report. You will read what is known and why.
Then you can make your own choices about what you think may help you protect brain function.
U. S. News and World [...]
“What The New Health Law Means for You”
This is an excellent source of information about a wide variety of health care topics, including tools you can use to estimate the impact of health care reform on you based on a number of factors.
This is an update of the original summary of the impact of this legislation on individuals.
Right now, employee health benefit [...]
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BP Pressured to Set Aside Billions to Pay Spill Claims
No one can put a price on the cost of the health care consequences for workers and residents in this area yet. No one can even predict all of the medical problems which are on the possible list. This is unprecedented. We should expect unprecedented medical issues.
NPR
“The financial ramifications of the disaster in the Gulf [...]
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