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How to determine what medical screening is necessary
There has been a lot of news about medical tests lately. Physicians are coming out against unnecessary testing and screenings to save patients time, money and health risks. As a senior, how do you know which tests or screenings you should have done, and...
Tags: Breast Cancer, Hearing Impairment, X-rays, Medical Procedures and Tests, Cataracts
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Doctors order fewer tests when they know prices: study
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Doctors order fewer laboratory tests during a patient's hospital stay if they know how much the tests cost, according to a new study. Researchers found that doctors at one U.S. hospital ordered about 9 percent fewer lab...Tags: Internists, Indiana University, Mount Sinai, Medical Research, Health
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In Boston bombing, Muslims hold their breath
Shereef Elnahal is a native of Virginia, a graduate of Harvard Medical School and a first-year internal medicine resident who helped triage explosion victims with ruptured eardrums and major limb injuries on Monday at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in...
Tags: Internists, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Harvard Medical School, Sports, Religion and Belief
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Computer tool may not boost mammograms' accuracy
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Using a computer tool to help doctors analyze mammography images increases the number of early, non-invasive breast cancers that are caught, but also means more women without cancer have to undergo follow-up ultrasounds and...Tags: Breast Cancer, Internists, Government Health Care, Medical Research, Biopsy
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6 arrested in alleged kickback scheme at Sacred Heart Hospital
Tribune reporterAn elderly man was admitted to Sacred Heart Hospital on Chicago's West Side in late February, intubated and sedated for more than a week and scheduled for an emergency tracheotomy even though it was medically unnecessary, federal prosecutors allege....Tags: Internists, Little Village, Long Term Care, Government Health Care, Medical Research
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Letters: Doctors and nurses -- who will take care of us?
Re "Can't a nurse do that?," Editorial, April 21 To combat the impending physician shortage all across California, and the crisis already facing rural areas, state law absolutely must change to allow greater independence for non-physician medical...Tags: Internists, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Health and Medical Professionals, Health Care Reform (2009), Nursing
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SC Senate panel shelves bill regulating abortion
The StateA bill that opponents say would have shuttered S.C. abortion clinics died in a state Senate subcommittee Wednesday. State Sen. Lee Bright, R-Spartanburg, introduced the bill to require doctors performing abortions to have board certification in...Tags: Internists, Planned Parenthood, Family Planning, Social Issues, Gynecology
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EDITORIAL: Thursday letters: Go meat free and live longer Thursday letters: Go meat free and live longer
The StateThe new link between meat consumption and heart disease, discovered by Dr. Stanley Hazen of the Cleveland Clinic, is just the latest evidence that eating meat can cause killer diseases that cripple, then kill, 1.3 million Americans annually. Hazen's study...Tags: Internists, Vegetarian Diet, Diseases and Illnesses, Heart Failure, Carnitine (dietary supplement)
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Interfaith event brings call for harmony
St. Louis Post-DispatchMore than 100 St. Louis-area Christians, Muslims, Jews and people of other faiths gathered Wednesday night to make sense of the atrocities of the Boston Marathon. They came to grieve for the people of Boston and the victims of the bombings and the...Tags: Internists, Judaism, Sports, Religion and Belief, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013)
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Henry Gift: Doctor Was Champion Of Underserved, In Connecticut And Around The World
The Hartford CourantAfter Henry Gift's mother died in Guyana from lack of access to medical treatment, he pledged to become a physician and bring healing to people with no access to doctors. Gift fulfilled that childhood pledge — he became an internist who provided...Tags: Rwanda, Internists, U.S. Army, Waterbury, Family
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Strong odor closes Essentia building in Duluth
Duluth News TribuneEssentia Health-Duluth Clinic's First Street Building will be closed today because investigators were unable to identify the source of a strong odor Tuesday that sickened some employees and forced the evacuation of the clinic. Twelve employees and two...Tags: Internists, Career and Workplace, Hospitals and Clinics, Health and Medical Professionals, Gynecology
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Red meat risks: One more reason to go vegetarian
The new link between meat consumption and heart disease, discovered by Dr. Stanley Hazen of the Cleveland Clinic, is just the latest evidence linking meat consumption to killer diseases that cripple, then kill, 1.3 million Americans annually. Dr. Hazen'...
Tags: Vegetarian Diet, Internists, Diseases and Illnesses, Medical Research, Health and Medical Professionals
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