Malaria Infection Depends on Number of Parasites, Not Number of Mosquito Bites
For the first time, researchers have shown that the number of parasites each mosquito carries...
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Emergency Medicine
Why Lyme Disease is Common in the North, Rare in the South
Heat and the humidity play an important role with Lyme Disease. Lyme disease sickens an estimated...
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Infographic: Best & Worst Cities for an Active Lifestyle
With “lose weight and get fit” being both the most popular and most commonly broken New Year’s...
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Public Unaware of Alarming Levels of High Blood Pressure
Study: 50% of Canadians unaware they suffer from hypertension. A new study published in the...
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CDC: 2016-2017 Flu Activity Now Widespread in 8 States
Influenza activity increased in the United States from Dec. 18 to Dec. 24 with eight states and...
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Initial Opioid Use & Long-Term Risks
As opioid prescribing has increased over the past two decades, the United States healthcare system...
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Linking Concussions to the Brain’s Ability to Process Sound
The secret to reliably diagnosing concussions lies in the brain’s ability to process sound,...
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Oral vaccine against Salmonella developed
A vaccine against salmonella poisoning, designed to be taken by mouth, has now been developed by...
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Who Has Grit? Cutting Resident Attrition Rates
What is grit? In an article in The Guardian, Angela Duckworth, a psychologist often called the...
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CDC 2016 Rundown of Health Threats, New and Old
The health threats of 2016 came in all sizes, ranging from drug-resistant superbugs to...
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Physician’s Weekly, LLC, Announces Partnership to Create First-Ever Facebook CME/CE
Basking Ridge, NJ; (November 13, 2016) – Physician’s Weekly announces the launch of the first-ever...
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Conference Highlights: WISC 2016
Assessing Asthma Exacerbation Susceptibility Previous research indicates that 50% of patients with...
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How One Minute Could Prevent Unnecessary Hospitalization, Tests for Patients with Low-Risk Chest Pains
Using a shared decision-making aid to involve patients more in their own care decisions can...
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CDC Report: Core Elements of Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship
The Core Elements of Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship provides a framework for antibiotic...
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Missing 1-2 hours of sleep same as driving over legal alcohol limit
Drivers who miss between one to two hours of the recommended seven hours of sleep in a 24-hour...
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Benefiting from Pulmonary Embolism Response Teams
Patients with massive or sub-massive pulmonary embolisms (PEs) often face poor survival odds—not...
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Why wounds heal more slowly with age
Older bodies need longer to mend. This reality of aging has been documented since World War I,...
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President-Elect Trump & What Lies Ahead for the U.S. Healthcare System
Following the election of Donald Trump as the next U.S. president, Physician’s Weekly Managing...
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Trump & The Unlacing of the Affordable Care Act
Harvard analysts ponder changes across the American and global landscapes. After a grueling...
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A tube misconnection and a death: a medical whodunit
Here’s what we know. In September 2016, a 72-year-old former member of the Australian...
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