Mental Health & Diabetes
Studies have shown that patients living with diabetes are at increased risk for developing...
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Primary Care
Innovative Tool Enhances HIV Care
Recent research has shown that only about 30% of the 1.2 million people living with HIV in the...
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Comparing Incentive-Based Smoking Cessation Programs
Smoking cessation programs that offer rewards appear to be more commonly accepted than those...
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Gender & AMI Recovery
Women appear to have worse health than men after experiencing an acute myocardial infarction...
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The High Healthcare Costs of Smoking
Researchers in the United States estimate that nearly 9% of annual healthcare spending in 2010...
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Depression & Low Back Pain
Patients with symptoms of depression appear to have a higher risk of developing an episode of low...
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Predicting Risk in ACS Patients
Fasting triglyceride levels appear to help predict long- and short-term cardiovascular risk among...
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Sickle Cell Disease & Sleep
Patients with sickle cell disease who have shorter sleep duration, fragmented sleep, or...
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The Impact of Smoking Among the Elderly
Researchers have found that smoking appears to be a strong independent risk factor of...
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Reducing Pediatric Radiation Exposure
Using decision support systems in pediatric patients appears to help physicians select imaging...
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Statins Cost-Effective in Older Adults
Statins appear to be cost-effective for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in adults...
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Psychiatric Care Inaccessible
Recent estimates show that fewer than 40% of Americans who suffer from mental illness—or about 11...
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Defining Rx Opioid Overdose Risk
Patients who use multiple pharmacies concurrently and have overlapping opioid prescriptions appear...
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Calif. Vaccine Bill Bans Personal, Religious Exemptions
In the US, we eradicated measles. The 20th century brought one of the greatest weapons ever to...
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Medscape’s 2015 Physician Compensation Report
Nearly 20,000 physicians across 25 specialties responded to Medscape’s 2015 Compensation Survey....
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The 2015 Immunization Schedule for Adults
Based on three changes in the area of adult immunizations that occurred recently, the CDC’s...
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The Burden of COPD & Symptom Severity
In 2000, the first “Confronting COPD International Survey” found that many patients with diagnosed...
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Addressing Cultural Differences in Diabetes
Patients often remain strongly influenced by their cultural background, even if they’ve been in...
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Is Marcus Welby Medicine Dead?
The patient was an elderly priest who had been awake all night vomiting. He was too sick to come...
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