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Saturday Morning Science Experiment: Surgery On a Beating HeartAnd Now, Some Ripped-From-the-Headlines Context.....First, why a beating heart? Traditionally, if you had a clogged artery on your heart and doctors wanted to sew in some "bypass" arteries to get around the sluggish ones, the surgeon would shut your heart down, using a heart and lung machine to pu ... |
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Emotions Around H1N1 Swine Flu VaccinesBy Julie Stachowiak, PhD Multiple Sclerosis Guide; Guest blogger
I have always been amazed at the "magical thinking" or "fuzzy logic" that people have (and feel compelled to talk about) around health matters. You know what I am referring to - the people that justify smoking because some smok... |
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Despite declining smoking rates, U.S. obesity rates continue to riseIf obesity trends continue, the negative effect on the health of the U.S. population will overtake the benefits gained from declining smoking rates, according to a study by U-M and Harvard researchers published today in the New England Journal of Medicine. ... |
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South Jersey Healthcare Launches Innovative Program to Reduce Hospital ReadmissionsNORTHFIELD, IL--(Marketwire - December 2, 2009) - According to Stephen F. Jencks, MD, MPH, in a recent New England Journal of Medicine article, America's healthcare crisis is fueled by unnecessary and costly hospitalizations, including re-admissions -- 90% of which are unplanned and at a price-... |
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Prescriptions for cholestrol therapy filled after the release of Arbiter 6-HALTS study resultsIn the week ending Friday, Nov. 20 – after the American Heart Association and New England Journal of Medicine released results of the Arbiter 6-HALTS study on Saturday, Nov. 14 – patients new to Niaspan filled 13,255 prescriptions for the cholesterol therapy, an increase of 41% from the week ... |
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