Nutrition knowledge is essential for today's physicians, according to a JAMA Internal Medicine commentary published July 1. The commentary—authored by Neal Barnard, MD, president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible ...
Jul 2, 2019
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"Integrating the Educators," a pilot internship program at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), is successful in training biomedical science trainees (graduate students/Ph.D. and postdocs) in the skills of being a ...
Jul 1, 2019
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"Anthony" cried so hard at night that Susana Ortegon couldn't sleep. The weekend felt like an eternity for the 13-year-old.
Jun 29, 2019
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Advocates for obesity prevention and treatment have designed two new resources for medical educators, healthcare providers and community programs that will enhance the level of care for patients, according to two new studies ...
Jun 24, 2019
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Good heart and lung (cardiorespiratory) fitness in middle age is associated with a lower long term risk of chronic lung disease (COPD), suggests Danish research published online in the journal Thorax.
Jun 18, 2019
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As Australia's aged care royal commission hears testimony about the treatment of people with dementia in residential aged care, the use of restraints is front and centre.
May 14, 2019
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A new study by American Cancer Society researchers finds medical financial hardship is very common among people in the United States, with more than half reporting problems with affordability, stress, or delaying care because ...
May 2, 2019
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Texting patients with schizophrenia and their lay health supporters in a resource-poor community setting is more effective than a free-medicine program alone in improving medication adherence and reducing relapses and re-hospitalizations, ...
Apr 23, 2019
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Firearm-related deaths in school-age children are increasing at alarming rates in the United States where homicide rates are about 6- to 9-fold higher than those in comparably developed countries. This epidemic poses increasingly ...
Mar 21, 2019
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People who are transgender face many barriers in the health care system—from intake forms that use non-inclusive language, to challenges finding providers who are knowledgeable about their health care needs.
Feb 11, 2019
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