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1. Diabetes 'Cure' After Weight Loss Surgery Lasts Long Term. Bariatric surgery may keep type 2 diabetes at bay for good.
2. Car Emissions Tied to Rare Pediatric Cancers. Children born to mothers who lived within a mile of heavy traffic while pregnant were at higher risk of developing any of three childhood cancers.
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1. Teach Health Info to Teens? Use Electronic Media. Electronic media may be an effective health intervention for teens, but better-quality studies are needed to confirm this association.
2. Annual Pap Tests a Hard Habit for Docs to Break. Most physicians wanted female patients to undergo cervical cancer screening more frequently than recommended under published guidelines.
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You may have heard of the “Dean’s Lie“, the artificial padding of numbers allowing medical schools to claim ever-increasing percentages of their graduates are going into primary care medicine. This is accomplished by counting everyone going into internal medicine, pediatrics, and med-peds, in addition to family medicine as “primary care.”
It makes their schools sound more attractive by seeming more progressive, but it does nothing to enhance the supply ...
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1. Treat Concussed Athletes Individually. Although athletes with suspected concussions should be benched immediately, their return to play may be handled flexibly according to symptoms and risk of further injury.
2. Nurse Shortage Linked to NICU Infection Rates. Neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) are widely understaffed, potentially increasing the risk of infection in critically ill babies.
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From ACOG comes five new cautions, part of the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation’s Choosing Wisely campaign, to eliminate wasteful and unnecessary medical interventions that can actually cause harm. All the recommendations are evidence-based and have broad consensus.
1. Don’t schedule elective, non-medically indicated inductions of labor or cesarean deliveries before 39 weeks 0 days gestational age. Delivery prior to 39 weeks 0 days has been shown to be associated with an increased risk ...
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1. Specialists Agree HRT Best for Menopause Symptoms. Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is the most effective available treatment for menopause symptoms.
2. Data Misleading for HRT, Breast Cancer Link. The evidence as to whether hormone replacement therapy (HRT) plays a causal role in breast cancer is insufficient to support that hypothesis, and there are major flaws in ...
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Test your medicine knowledge with the MKSAP challenge, in partnership with the American College of Physicians.
A 54-year-old woman is evaluated during a routine examination. She is very concerned by her lack of interest in sexual intercourse. The patient feels like she "just doesn't want to be touched." She used to enjoy intercourse and does not know why she feels this way now, but she acknowledges that it is causing ...
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I was startled to learn, when interviewing medical school applicants, that tagging along with a physician, or “shadowing,” is a common practice among high school and college students these days. Yes, I did say students as young as high schoolers.
Shadowing provides a way for students to observe at first hand what it is like to be a physician, and helps them decide whether the career will suit them. Medical school ...
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1. Afib Linked to Cognitive Decline. Atrial fibrillation carries a significant risk for cognitive decline, even when stroke is not involved.
2. C-Section Rates Vary Widely. Cesarean delivery rates ranged from as low as 7% to as high as 70% at U.S. hospitals.
3. Many Docs Miss Test Results in VA's EHR. ...
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The first test tube baby was born July 25th, 1978 in the north of England. Louise Brown was called the “baby of the century” by some and a “moral abomination” by others. It wasn’t Brown who critics accused of being immoral, of course. She was just a blameless infant. Instead, it was her doctors who came under fire for their new fertility treatment—in vitro fertilization (or IVF). Roman Catholic theologians ...
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