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Steady hand: how to do open-heart surgery in a quake
When the ground started shaking in Mexico City on September 19, many people ran out into the street.
Oct 22, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
New screening tool can identify diabetic retinopathy
(HealthDay)—A new screening tool can adequately detect risk of diabetic retinopathy in adults with diabetes in low-income communities in Mexico, according to a study published in the October issue of Preventing Chronic ...
Oct 16, 2017
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Oncology & Cancer
People of Mexican decent in US have more liver cancer risk factors than those living in Mexico
Mexican-Americans living in the United States demonstrated more risk factors for liver cancer than their counterparts in Mexico, according to results of a study presented at the 10th AACR Conference on The Science of Cancer ...
Sep 25, 2017
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Psychologists help Mexico deal with double trauma of quake
Whether wearing white lab coats, red rescue worker vests or dressed as clowns, the psychologists standing by as Mexico picks through the rubble of this week's earthquakes are ready to help a shaken nation deal with its trauma.
Sep 24, 2017
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Medications
Study finds legal cannabis may reduce use of dangerous prescription drugs
The United States is in the midst of a major drug epidemic. Stories continue to roll in daily about the lives claimed by prescription and non-prescription drug overdoses. The numbers are staggering. Opioids alone (including ...
Sep 8, 2017
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School districts rethink meal debt policies that shame kids
Teaching assistant Kelvin Holt watched as a preschool student fell to the back of a cafeteria line during breakfast in Killeen, Texas, as if trying to hide.
Jul 4, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Two more plague cases reported in New Mexico's Santa Fe County
The New Mexico Department of Health on Monday confirmed two more human cases of plague.
Jun 26, 2017
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Oncology & Cancer
HPV testing leads to earlier detection and treatment of cervical pre-cancer
Women who receive human papillomavirus (HPV) testing, in addition to a pap smear, receive a faster, more complete diagnosis of possible cervical precancer, according to a study of over 450,000 women by Queen Mary University ...
Jun 22, 2017
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Culprit hidden in plain sight in Alzheimer disease development
A new study by researchers at the University of Montana, Universidad del Valle de México, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Boise State, and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, heightens concerns over the detrimental ...
Jun 8, 2017
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New Mexico city seeks sugary drink tax
It's being pitched as an educational lifeline for impoverished preschool-aged children and condemned as the latest example of local government overreach sweeping progressive cities from coast to coast.
Apr 27, 2017
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