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Steve Diaz, an emergency medicine doctor at Augusta’s MaineGeneral Health, says he knows what patients want when they come to him in pain. Drugs. And ...
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New Documentary Spotlight’s Latin American Medical Scholarship Program
Community Doctors — new documentary focusing on Cuba’s ELAM (Latin American School of Medicine) scholarship program — has just been released online. Students in the program ...
Read More »Walking: The Cheap, Easy Exercise
Walking is a simple and inexpensive exercise that has been shown to offer numerous benefits for bones, muscles and joints. “Sometimes the hardest part of ...
Read More »Teens Using Performance Enhancing Drugs Just To Boost Their Appearance
By Steven Reinberg, HealthDay Many teens are turning to risky, unregulated supplements to boost their looks, warns a leading group of U.S. pediatricians. These products — including ...
Read More »U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Restrictions on Abortions
The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled against a Texas abortion law that had required doctors to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital. The ruling ...
Read More »You Might Be Better Off Paying Cash For Your Prescription Medicine
By Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News Some consumers who use health insurance copays to buy prescription drugs are paying far more than they should be and ...
Read More »Can Doctors Learn To Perform Abortions Without Actually Doing One?
By Carrie Feibel Abortion is one of the more common procedures performed in the U.S., more common even than appendectomy. But as clinics in Texas close, finding a place ...
Read More »PET Scans May Spare Hodgkin Lymphoma Patients From Chemo
A certain type of medical scan can be used to help spare some Hodgkin lymphoma patients from the severe side effects of chemotherapy, a new ...
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