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Study evaluates industry payments to orthopedic surgeons

An analysis of financial payments made by orthopedic device manufacturers to orthopedic surgeons shows that the patterns of payments from 2007 to 2010 appear to be complex with a reduction in the total number of payments ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Global travellers vulnerable to drug-resistant bacteria: study

International travelers are particularly vulnerable to virulent strains of drug-resistant bacteria—often picking up several different types during a trip through spending time in the company of other tourists, a new study ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Making hepatitis C care easier when treatment seems impossible

A health care team at Oregon Health & Science University is trying a different approach to caring for patients who have, or are at risk for, hepatitis C, helping overcome barriers that can otherwise make receiving testing ...

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Smoking trends among Mexicans, Mexican-Americans

(Medical Xpress)—Led by UC Davis researchers, the first-ever transnational study of Mexico-U.S. migration and smoking has found that U.S.-born Mexican Americans start smoking at an earlier age but are more likely to quit ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

China insists official COVID data is transparent

China said on Friday all the COVID-19 data it has shared—including with the World Health Organization—has been transparent, despite its hospitals being overwhelmed and its official figures on infections and deaths being ...

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