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I’ve read about hospital nurses dealing with violence at work, but I always told myself that was something that happened in the emergency room or the psych ward. In oncology, I reasoned, we have rel ationships...
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Docs, it's time to embrace online chat and texting with patients - FierceMobileHealthcare Of course it is time to open all channels of communication with our patients. When we reduce barriers to care we...
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Should companies be allowed to patent genes? They are right now, and an HHS-advisory committee has warned that such practices threaten medical progress and could drive critical bio-medical research ov erseas...
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There's been some talk "out there" that reconciliation is an undemocratic process, because it doesn't go through the regular legislative channels. While I am forced to ask how any process requiring a majority...
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By Bruce Goldman of
Scope
Mar 16, 10 04:10PM
An NPR report today points out an oddly ironic result of the embryonic-stem-cell policy shift announced by the Obama Administration last year. On August 9, 2001, then-President George W. Bush announce d...
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By Michelle Brandt of
Scope
Mar 16, 10 02:45PM
Could family size play a role in the long-term health of a parent? Results of a study of more than 1.5 million Norwegian men and women hint that the answer is yes. The Daily Mail has more on the...
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By Deb LeBel For the fourth year in a row, on March 20, many communities around our country will stop to observe National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NNHAAD). The National Native HIVAIDS Awareness Day...
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Sixty percent of adults in America are overweight, but when gender, race, income level, and age are taken into account that figure climbs even higher, according to a report [.pdf] released today from the...
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By Michelle Brandt of
Scope
Mar 16, 10 09:35AM
How can Twitter be used in medical practice? Calling tweeting a "valuable way to reach thousands of people at once," Case Western Reserve University breaks down the various ways on a Web site: ...Othe r...
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Year: 1998 Setting: Yi villages, Yunnan province, China Position: Medical mission leader It is about one week before Christmas and we have been working in various villages examining patients, providin g...
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