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Chevy Chase, MD, USA. The Endocrine Society has released a new clinical practice guideline on the diagnosis and treatment of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH). The guideline features a series of evidence-based clinical recommendations developed
09-08-10
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Washington, DC, USA. On Monday (Aug. 30), Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty rejected his state’s application for $850,000 under the new federal health care law to prevent teen pregnancies.
At the same time, he approved a state application for $500
09-04-10
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Geneva, Switzerland. A major humanitarian organization has performed close to 20,000 surgical procedures in resource-limited settings between 2001 and 2008 with an operative death rate of only 0.2 percent.
Of the 230 million major surgical proce
08-30-10
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Washington, DC, USA. In the past decade, prescription drug abuse has soared to new levels. A recent White House study found a 400 percent increase in abuse from 1998 to 2008. Other experts cite the doubling of prescription drug-related emergency r
08-25-10
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Boston, MA, USA. What are the risks and rewards involved if patients are invited to review their own medical records?
Technology has placed vast amounts of medical information literally a mouse click away. Yet what often may be central — a doct
07-28-10
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Sacramento, CA, USA. A shared decision-making process would assist doctors and parents who are facing the extraordinarily complex, challenging, and very controversial choices presented when infants are born with genetic or anatomical anomalies in s
07-24-10
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Jackson, MS, USA. Mental health policies in America have changed radically over the past 60 years. A one-time emphasis on caring for patients in large institutions shifted to treatment in outpatient community settings. The ways mental disorders are
07-21-10
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Boston, MA, USA. More than two billion people worldwide lack adequate access to surgical treatment, according to a new study from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). A substantial amount of the global burden comes from illnesses and disorde
07-04-10
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Montréal, Québec, Canada. Patients with their privacy and personal dignity exposed — i.e. forced to wear traditional and revealing hospital gowns — may soon bid adieu to peek-a-boo hospital garb.
Alumna Noémie Marquis and Denyse Roy, a prof
06-29-10
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Chevy Chase, MD, USA. Exposure to environmental levels of the industrial chemical bisphenol A (BPA) in a mother's womb during the early life of her male baby may cause long-lasting harm to adult testicular function, according to a new study.
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06-23-10
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Chicago, IL, USA. Findings from a survey of free clinics suggest that an estimated 1.8 million individuals make approximately 3.5 million medical and dental visits to free clinics annually, according to a report in the AMA Archives of Internal Medi
06-17-10
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New Haven, CT, USA. Researchers at the Yale School of Medicine have discovered a method to improve male fertility by selecting sperm with the highest DNA integrity. The method compares well to the egg's natural selection abilities, according to the
06-01-10
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Chicago, IL, USA. A study of patients undergoing elective facial plastic surgery suggests that older patients and those currently being treated for depression may be more likely to be satisfied with the results of their procedures, but overall opti
05-30-10
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Fairfax, VA, USA. A new study is the first to find that a high level of High-density lipoprotein (HDL), the supposedly good cholesterol, places a subgroup of patients at high risk for recurrent coronary events, such as chest pain, heart attack, and
05-29-10
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Tampa, FL, USA. The timing of umbilical cord clamping at birth should be delayed just a few minutes longer, suggest researchers.
At birth, the placenta and umbilical cord start contracting and pumping blood toward the newborn. After the blood equi
05-28-10
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Cologne, Germany. No one knows how many mothers' and babies' lives have been saved by the obstetrical forceps. This device has been part of the standard equipment of every maternity room for about 250 years.
However, a shadow lies over the success
05-26-10
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Fairfax, VA, USA. A study says rewarding primary care physicians for better patient care could end up widening medical disparities experienced by poorer people and those belonging to racial and ethnic minorities.
RAND researchers found that under
05-11-10
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Munich, Germany. Presentations at an international conference demonstrate how scientists are paying increased attention to prenatal stress during development. The long-term consequences for developmental and disease risk in later life are dramatica
05-11-10
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Philadelphia, PA, USA. General internists are the major providers of primary care to adults in the United States, currently facing a shortage of primary care physicians, but 1 in 6 them leaves practice by mid career compared to 1 in 25 departures b
05-08-10
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Stanford, CA, USA. For the first time, researchers have used a healthy person's complete genome sequence to predict his risk for dozens of diseases and how he will respond to several common medications. The risk analysis, from the Stanford Universi
05-01-10
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Fairfax, VA, USA. After Massachusetts started rolling out its 2006 law to ensure that nearly every one of its residents had health insurance, the sudden influx of newly insured patients created long waits to see primary care doctors.
Now, physicia
04-28-10
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Fairfax, VA, USA. Facelifts and other wrinkle-reducing procedures have long been sought by people wanting to ward off the signs of aging, but new research suggests that it takes more than tightening loose skin to restore a youthful look. A study by
04-24-10
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Baltimore, MD, USA. A new technique using tissue from those below-the-waist love handles improves cosmetic breast reconstruction in slim, athletic cancer patients without adequate fat sources elsewhere, a small Johns Hopkins study has found. The me
04-17-10
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Parkville, VIC, AUS. Endocrinologists typically limit their MtF transsexual patients to minimal "maintenance" dosages of estrogen more appropriate for post-menopausal women. They do this while often refusing to prescribe progesterone at a
04-14-10
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Boston, MA, USA. In a report that appears in Health Affairs, researchers from the Mongan Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) suggest that currently implemented health record systems have little effect on measures suc
04-07-10
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Nashville TN, USA. A new study argues for the potential benefits of the ability to make unprecedented links between genomic data and clinical medicine by exploiting rapidly accumulating databases of health care information.
The research in the sup
04-05-10
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Camden, New Jersey, USA. Americans consume large quantities of medication, but only one pill is known as simply “the pill”.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of oral contraception, an innovative collaboration between Gregory Pincus and Jo
03-31-10
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Baltimore, MD, USA. A medical student and faculty directors from the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics analyzed depictions of bioethical issues and professionalism over a full season of two popular medical dramas — Grey's Anatomy and Ho
03-28-10
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Springfield, IL, USA. In a closely watched case, Illinois’ highest court Thursday determined that a not-for-profit hospital had to pay property taxes, because it didn’t offer enough charity care to qualify for a tax exemption.
The decision is
03-20-10
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Washington, DC, USA. If and when President Obama signs legislation revamping the nation’s health care system, several Republican-led states appear likely to fight a key provision of the new law in court.
Idaho Governor C.L. “Butch” Otter on
03-19-10
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Washington, DC, USA. The recession is forcing more Americans to turn to Medicaid, the vast state-federal health insurance program for the poor.
But as states struggle to meet the rising demand, doctors and other health care providers are being pai
03-17-10
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Portland, OR. Anyone in Oregon who wants to buy tablets of Sudafed or Claritin D must have a doctor’s prescription to do so.
Those who live in Oklahoma must submit to an instant online screening before they can walk out of a pharmacy with those
03-16-10
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Chicago, IL, USA. Outgoing hospital physicians hand off important information to their replacements in a brief shift change meeting. A new study of this process says the most important information is not fully conveyed in a majority of cases, even
03-15-10
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Washington, DC, USA. The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) has launched an online tool to help educators teach the next generation of nurses and physician assistants about genetics and genomics. NHGRI is a part of the US National Ins
03-13-10
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Vancouver, BC, CAN. People undergoing severe stress can resort to the use of anti-depressant drugs, but some of the same medications are associated with an increased chance of developing cataracts, according to a new statistical study by researcher
03-10-10
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Gothenburg, Sweden. There is a link between repeated anaesthesia in children and memory impairment, though physical activity can help to form new cells that improve memory, reveals new research in the Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow &
Metaboli
03-09-10
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Fairfax, VA, USA. A study in the journal Radiology finds that annual breast cancer screening with both mammography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is likely to be a cost-effective way to improve life expectancy in women with an increased risk
03-01-10
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Indianapolis, IN, USA. The most frequent error in medicine seems to occur nearly one out of three times a patient is referred to a specialist. A new study found that nearly a third of patients age 65 and older referred to a specialist are not sched
02-28-10
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Washington, DC, USA. Sharp rate hikes by health insurer Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield caused ripples in many states amid a well-publicized company plan to increase premiums by as much as 39 percent in California. The firm insures hundreds of th
02-27-10
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Philadelphia, PA, USA. The American College of Physicians (ACP) has issued a report that tells tells President Obama and Congress there is an urgent need to move forward on essential reforms.
"The unfortunate truth is that by many measures,
02-22-10
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Edmonton, Canada. Nurses who provide telephone advice services for patients have a provably difficult assignment. They have to balance the conflicting demands of providing appropriate medical advice and acting as a gatekeeper to the provision of li
02-19-10
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Philadelphia, PA, USA. Fetal and neonatal surgeries are particularly sensitive topics among people with a transsexual or intersex history. The documented instances of ill-conceived interventions based on non-scientific notions of sex and gender wer
02-18-10
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Fairfax, VA, USA. Do physicians provide more services to Medicare patients to make up for lower Medicare fees? With almost 42 million people enrolled in Medicare in the United States in 2008, it’s a question that could have a very costly answer.
02-12-10
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Durham, NC, USA. Three years after blood banking industry in the United States issued recommendations that discourage transfusing plasma from female donors because of a potential antibody reaction, researchers discovered that female plasma actually
02-12-10
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Houston, TX, USA. Healthcare providers are pushing toward electronic health records but it is hard to tell how well these complex health information technology systems are implemented and used, writes a health informatics researcher in an American
02-07-10
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Seattle, WA, USA. Genital herpes, caused by a reactivation of herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2), is generally treated as a lesion in one specific area of the genital region.However, an important new finding is that the virus can frequently reacti
02-01-10
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Ghent, Belgium. Despite high complication rates, implantation of a hydraulic erectile prosthesis remains the best option for achieving the possibility of sexual intercourse in female-to-male transsexuals, says a new clinical report. The article is
01-20-10
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Washington, DC, USA. As Democrats in Congress work to meld separate House and Senate health care bills into a single blueprint for an historic overhaul of America’s health care system, state leaders brace for potential costs they say could devast
01-19-10
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Colchester, UK. Scientists at the University of Essex have submitted a worldwide patent for engineered hemoglobin, joining a global quest for a viable blood alternative.
Over 75 million units of donated blood are given to people worldwide for hosp
01-18-10
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Philadelphia, PA, USA. The American College of Physicians (ACP) has issued a position paper to guide ethical relationships among patients, physicians, and caregivers.
More than 30 million family caregivers play major role in maximizing the health
01-13-10
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