Medications
Medical marijuana won't help ease opioid crisis: study
(HealthDay)—Some proponents of medical marijuana have claimed that its use against pain might help curb the ongoing crisis of opioid abuse.
Jul 17, 2019
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Doctor burnout costs health care system $4.6 billion a year
Burnout among doctors is costing the U.S. health-care system an estimated $4.6 billion a year in billings because of reduced hours, physician turnover, and expenses associated with finding and hiring replacements, according ...
Jul 15, 2019
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Health
Shortening trainee doctor hours hasn't harmed patients
When reforms shortened working hours for U.S. doctors-in-training, some worried: Was that enough time to learn the art of medicine? Would future patients suffer?
Jul 11, 2019
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Medical research
Larger drug trials that intervene earlier needed for Alzheimer's disease
There are currently no drugs that stop or inhibit Alzheimer's disease. Despite drug trials showing plaque reduction in the brain, the patients' cognitive function did not improve. Would the results be different if it were ...
Jul 10, 2019
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
In US first, baby is born from dead donor's transplanted womb
The Cleveland Clinic says it has delivered the first baby in North America after a womb transplant from a dead donor.
Jul 09, 2019
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Medical research
New tool predicts how electrical stimulation promotes healing
Scientists have known for decades that electrical stimulation promotes healing of chronic wounds, such as diabetic ulcers and bedsores, but how it happens has been a mystery—until now.
Jul 09, 2019
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Health
Physician burnout: Why legal and regulatory systems may need to step in
A career as a physician has traditionally been considered to be among the best vocations that talented students can pursue. That may no longer be the case. All too many doctors report that they are unhappy, frustrated and ...
Jul 09, 2019
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Medications
Where pharma spends, docs prescribe more gabapentin, a potential drug of abuse
Pharmaceutical companies' payments to doctors may be influencing them to prescribe more expensive, brand-name versions of the pain drug gabapentin, a team of researchers report in the July 8 issue of JAMA Internal Medicine, ...
Jul 08, 2019
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Cardiology
Doctors shrugged off athlete's gasping, until one heart surgeon listened
Back in her office after the New Year's holiday, Cat Oyler, then 45, struggled to catch her breath.
Jul 03, 2019
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Health
French doctors to end life support in right-to-die case
French doctors are set to begin removing life support from paralysed road accident victim Vincent Lambert on Tuesday, in what could be the final act in a hugely controversial right-to-die case that has drawn in Pope Francis.
Jul 02, 2019
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