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Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't
Research produces curious results about the relationship between stress and healthy eating habits.
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What Really Causes PTSD in Veterans?
Researchers want to know if it's not just the emotional toll of combat but an actual physical trauma sustained in battle that causes this neurological disorder.
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Wrong-patient Errors Can Lead to Death, But They Can Be Prevented
About 9% of the wrong-patient events studied for a just-released report led to temporary or permanent harm or, in some cases, death.
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Hospital Consult - October 2016
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Managing Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Part 1
MONOGRAPH: Covering sodium glucose co-transporter-2 inhibitors, incretin-based therapies, amylin analog, and dopamine receptor agonists.
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Hospital CMS CoPs Made Easy
Part 2Does your hospital have what it takes to comply with CMS Hospital CoPs? -
ED Push - October 2016 First Issue
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Close Ties Between Surgeons and Device Reps Raises Ethical Concerns
“I often felt like I’m driving up the costs of the healthcare system …We used to sell an implant that has 99% survivorship at 15 years, which is great, right? We were told to not ever market it to anybody … If a doctor asked for it by name, we would give it to him. We want to market the newer, the better technology. I’m not certain I ever thought the newer technology was better. There certainly wasn’t data on it … I was uncomfortable with those sorts of things.”
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People with Mental Illness Often Excluded from Clinical Trials
If a medication for major depression has a dangerous adverse interaction with a different medication that’s being studied in a clinical trial, will it be discovered by researchers and reported in the literature? Not likely, if no one enrolled in the study has major depression.
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Physicians Have New Guidance on Ethics of Telemedicine
A patient asks her physician, whom she’s never seen previously, a particularly sensitive medical question. How does this interaction differ if the patient is at home, viewing the doctor’s response on a computer screen?