Heart Attack Risk 17-Times More Likely Following Respiratory Infections
The risk of having a heart attack is 17 times higher in the seven days following a respiratory...
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Infectious Disease
Less Than Half of Americans Can Recognize Anxiety
Most people don’t know what to do about depression even when they spot it. And nearly 8 in...
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Common Antibiotics Linked to Increased Risk of Miscarriage
Many classes of common antibiotics, such as macrolides, quinolones, tetracyclines, sulfonamides...
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Urine Drug Tests: Effective for Uncovering Opioid Misuse But Easy To Cheat On
With America facing an opioid epidemic, the most effective diagnostic tool for uncovering misuse...
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New CDC Guidelines on SSI Infection
The CDC published its long-awaited update on recommendations for the prevention of surgical site...
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2017 Top 10 Medical Inventions & Innovations
Lasers that induce human dental stem cells to regenerate dentin, a tiny camera that can be...
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Conference Highlights: ACOG 2017
PTSD in Women With HIV Studies indicate that PTSD is common in women living with HIV and...
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Trending: Jimmy Kimmel Reveals Details of His Son’s Birth & Heart Disease
Jimmy and his wife Molly welcomed their second child together, William “Billy” Kimmel. At three...
Read MoreA doctor’s case for medical marijuana
Physician David Casarett was tired of hearing hype and half-truths around medical marijuana, so he put on his skeptic’s hat and investigated on his own. He comes back with a fascinating report on what we know and what we...
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Infographic: 2017’s Best & Worst States for Nurses
Wallethub compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia across 18 key metrics that...
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TweetChat: A Look at the U.S. Opioid Epidemic
Join us Wednesday, May 10 at 9:00pm ET / 6:00pm PT for a live, interactive tweetchat with Linda...
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Transgastric appendectomy: The answer to a question no one is asking
No one really wants to know if taking out an inflamed appendix using an endoscope passed...
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Analyzing Pain Coping Strategies
“When compared with white patients, black individuals tend to report higher levels of pain for a...
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Infographic: Our Growing Resistance to Antibiotics
Antibiotic resistance is a growing threat and limits our ability to prevent and treat an...
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Assessing Injection Drug Use-Related Infective Endocarditis
In recent years, clinicians have seen an uptick in viruses like HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV)...
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Each State’s Predicted Nursing Demand
NURSING@GEORGETOWN The demand for health care professionals — especially those who work in...
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Universal Chlamydia Screening
Rates of chlamydia trachomatis infection, the most common sexually transmitted infection (STI) in...
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Will robots ever be able to perform surgery independently?
Will robots ever be able to perform surgery independently? And if they can, should they? In my...
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New Study Highlights Fatal Risks of Sepsis
The study, published online in March in Lancet Infectious Diseases, is one the most comprehensive...
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The 20 Fattest Cities in America: 2017
March is National Nutrition Month, and with healthy lifestyles and diets in mind, WalletHub has...
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