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Health sites too complex, full of cliches: study
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The importance of health literacy hit home for Lisa Gualtieri when a Cambodian refugee diagnosed with cancer asked her to act as a patient advocate. She played the role of a "salty tongue," a Cambodian expression that paints...Tags: Aneurysm, Health and Medical Professionals, American Medical Association, Internists, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Pricey radiation no better post prostatectomy: study
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Men who get an older and less costly form of radiation after their cancerous prostates are removed fare just as well as men who get a new and expensive type of radiation, according to a new study. "What we demonstrate is...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Radiation Therapy, Health and Medical Professionals, Internists, Medical Specialization
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Does prostate cancer treatment help older, sick men?
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Older men with other illnesses may not live long enough to benefit from aggressive prostate cancer treatments, such as prostate removal or radiation, and they'd have to live with their side effects, says a new study. "If you'...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Death, Internists, Medical Procedures and Tests, Vanderbilt University
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1936-2013: OSU doctor top thyroid cancer expert
The Columbus DispatchDr. Ernest L. Mazzaferri Sr. became the first in his family to attend high school, going on to become a renowned expert in thyroid cancer treatment at the Ohio State University College of Medicine during the 1980s and '90s. Mazzaferri, 76, who was...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Armed Forces, Colleges and Universities, Internists, Drugs and Medicines
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Your Health: Gut symptoms can be a signal of multiple disorders
Richmond Times-DispatchThis week's column is the second part of a two-part answer to a reader's question about irritable bowel syndrome. The reader wrote: Have you ever heard of a condition called mucous colitis? I am 88 and began to have attacks of this painful condition...Tags: Dietary Supplements, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Health and Medical Professionals, Ulcerative Colitis, Internists
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Warning didn't change for-profit dialysis drug use
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite a strong warning from U.S. regulators in 2007, for-profit dialysis centers still gave their kidney failure patients more of a certain anemia drug than non-profit centers in 2008, says a new study. The researchers write...Tags: Anemia, Health and Medical Professionals, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Death
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Dr. Frederick L. Brancati, expert on diabetes
Dr. Frederick L. Brancati, an internationally known expert on the epidemiology and prevention of type 2 diabetes who was director of the Division of General Internal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, died Tuesday of...
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Doctor opens office at Mill Road Square in Shamokin
The News-Item, Shamokin, Pa.After seven years at the Ressler Center on the Geisinger-Shamokin Area Community Hospital campus, Dr. Sanjay Sen has moved his private practice to Mill Road Square. The new doctor's office now completely fills all the suites at the facility. "I wanted...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Sundance Film Festival, Rental Service, Internists
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Misdiagnosis: More Common Than Drug Errors or Wrong-Site Surgery
The Hartford CourantUntil it happened to him, Itzhak Brook, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Georgetown University School of Medicine, didn't think much about the problem of misdiagnosis. That was before doctors at a Maryland hospital repeatedly told Brook his...Tags: Breast Cancer, Durham (Durham, North Carolina), Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Heart Failure, Malpractice
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Doctors discuss pain-pill abuse in Duluth forum
Duluth News TribuneThe problem of prescription drug abuse is stark, Carol Falkowski said. "We have a prescription opiate problem in this country and in this state, the likes of which we have never seen," Falkowski told health professionals gathered for a Minnesota Medical...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Prescription Drugs, Internists, Behavioral Conditions, Substance Abuse
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Voice of the People, May. 18
Mental-health medicines This is in response to "Psychologists seek prescription power; Health professionals split over contentious bill now up to House" (News, May 12) and "Rx: Slow down; Psychologists and mental health medicines" (Editorial, May 13)....Tags: Psychologists, Malpractice, Tour Operations Industry, Internists, Chemical Industry
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Fayetteville teen accused of promising local jihad not connected with Hoke County mosque
The Fayetteville Observer, N.C.A teenager who reportedly threatened to rob and kill people who did not share his radical Islamic beliefs had no affiliation with a Hoke County mosque, its board members said Wednesday. A criminal complaint filed by the FBI in U.S. District Court says a...Tags: Religion and Belief, Justice System, Islam, Health and Medical Professionals, Internists
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