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		<title>Oral Contraceptives Are Safe&#8230;Users May Live Longer, Study Says</title>
		<link>http://www.thepatientreport.com/2010/03/11/oral-contraceptives-are-safe-users-may-live-longer-study-says/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheree Cleghorn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The main issue with assessing the impact of contraceptive pills on women&#8217;s health is that lifespans are longer.
The &#8220;Pill&#8221; is a product of the 1960s.
The first generation of 20-something users now are only in their 60s. Of course, women in their 30s and 40s used the Pill and would now be in their 70s and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food Safety Alert: Salmonella Product Recall Expanded</title>
		<link>http://www.thepatientreport.com/2010/03/11/food-safety-alert-salmonella-product-recall-expanded/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheree Cleghorn</dc:creator>
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&#8220;The Department of Agriculture has recalled 1.7 million pounds of ready-to-eat beef taquito and chicken quesadilla products that contain a flavoring ingredient probably tainted by salmonella , the Associated Press reports. The move comes a week after the Food and Drug Administration announced that hydrolyzed vegetable protein manufactured by Basic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can We Talk Honestly About Mistakes and Safety Problems? Of Course Not</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheree Cleghorn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first time I was a boss, I had to, of course, do a budget.
I liked everything else better. The budget, to be sure, was a necessity but boring. Nothing new or creative to be done there, I thought. We were trailblazing, or trying to, clinically. The clinical side was much more interesting.
The doctor who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Missing Voice of Patients in Drug Safety Reporting&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.thepatientreport.com/2010/03/11/the-missing-voice-of-patients-in-drug-safety-reporting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheree Cleghorn</dc:creator>
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This full free text article from The New England Journal of Medicine, by Ethan Basch, M.D., explains that clinicians&#8217; assess patients&#8217; responses in clinical trials.
Nobody&#8217;s asking the patients what they think they are feeling or experiencing.
This article says that getting information from patients could add valuable information. &#8220;Self-reports are more sensitive to underlying changes in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sex Lives of Older People Are Not What You May Think</title>
		<link>http://www.thepatientreport.com/2010/03/11/the-sex-lives-of-older-people-are-not-what-you-may-think/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheree Cleghorn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[How To Speak Doctor]]></category>

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This is another angle from a study just out which says healthier people have longer-lasting sex lives.
Here, the story focuses on male versus female interest in sexual activity as people get older.
A doctor friend of mine always has said, &#8220;Men will be interested in sex until the day they die. That is just how we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Baby Girls Are Not in Fashion, Then What?</title>
		<link>http://www.thepatientreport.com/2010/03/11/when-baby-girls-are-not-in-fashion-then-what/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:25:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheree Cleghorn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Friends & Families]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This report reminds us all that children are a source of labor in countries such as India and China.
Girls can be seen as an expense with the investment returns going to the families into which they marry.
Ultrasound scans can tell parents a baby&#8217;s gender. This story says that millions of couples have aborted a daughter, [...]]]></description>
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		<link>http://www.thepatientreport.com/2010/03/11/13330/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheree Cleghorn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new age of genetic coding to be used in clinical care is almost here, say various experts.
Even one leading critic, a Duke University geneticist, who has disagreed with current approaches in the field, agrees that over the next few years human genetics finally can be used to &#8220;systematically deliver clinically meaningful findings.&#8221;
The hope has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cancer Is &#8220;Not the Killer of 20 Years Ago&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.thepatientreport.com/2010/03/10/cancer-is-not-the-killer-of-20-years-ago/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepatientreport.com/2010/03/10/cancer-is-not-the-killer-of-20-years-ago/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheree Cleghorn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[News/Commentary
Cancer is many diseases but, in general, is associated with aging. Risks go up with time.
In a study of cancer deaths, taking age into account, cancer deaths declined among men by 21% since 1990. For women, cancer deaths are down 12% since 1991.
That is significant progress but there remains significantly more work to do. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Older Americans Who Report Good Health More Likely to Be Sexually Active&#8230;and Sexual Activity Offers Health Benefits, Study Says</title>
		<link>http://www.thepatientreport.com/2010/03/10/older-americans-who-report-good-health-more-likely-to-be-sexually-active-and-sexual-activity-offers-health-benefits-study-says/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheree Cleghorn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Focus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Healthier people are more likely to be sexually active as they get older, says this examination of two American studies on aging.
However, almost half of older, sexually active adults have at least one &#8220;bothersome&#8221; sexual problem and one-third report two problems. Physicians rarely address sexual concerns in older adults&#8212;particularly in women.
The reason physicians talk to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pandemic Flu Monitor: H1N1 Predicted to Be &#8220;Dominant&#8221; Flu Next Winter</title>
		<link>http://www.thepatientreport.com/2010/03/08/pandemic-flu-monitor-h1n1-predicted-to-be-dominant-flu-next-winter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thepatientreport.com/2010/03/08/pandemic-flu-monitor-h1n1-predicted-to-be-dominant-flu-next-winter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheree Cleghorn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[In Brief]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters
&#8220;The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said the H1N1 swine flu virus would probably spread at low levels during 2010&#8217;s spring and summer, and be the dominant and threatening strain in the winter flu season.
&#8220;It seems unlikely that there will be another spring/summer pandemic wave in Europe unless there are significant unrecognized [...]]]></description>
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