Sunday, October 2nd, 2011
Experts published in October's American Journal of Preventive Medicine (AJPM) supplement several pieces arguing that medical education must put greater emphasis on public health and prevention to ensure that future physicians can serve the changing health needs of patients and their communities in the best way possible...
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Wednesday, September 28th, 2011
New findings point to a possible role for manuka honey in the prevention of clinically significant radiation-induced dermatitis in breast cancer patients. The results, from a phase 2 study reported at the 2011 European Multidisciplinary Cancer Congress (EMCC), show that the product may also decrease the duration of dermatitis ...
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Saturday, September 17th, 2011
According to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, even though it's not often that children and teenagers die from flu-related causes, had the child been vaccinated against the flu several of these deaths could have been prevented. The report is published in the CDC's Morbidity and ...
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Friday, September 16th, 2011
Elevated blood cholesterol levels are regarded as a risk factor for heart attacks and other cardiovascular diseases. However, this does not necessarily mean that every cholesterol-lowering drug can also prevent heart attacks. For example, the benefit of the cholesterol-lowering drug ezetimibe is unclear. In particular, proof is lacking that patients ...
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Thursday, September 15th, 2011
Today it was announced, that the world's biggest and most comprehensive investigation of children with autism has uncovered the first biologically distinct subtypes of brain development in the condition. The discoveries are similar to those of the first biological subtypes of cancer in the 1960s, which provided access to ...
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