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MONDAY, Jan. 12, 2015 (HealthDay News) — Many U.S. cancer survivors have unresolved physical and mental health issues long after being cured, a new study ...
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Supreme Court Battle Brewing Over Medicaid Fees
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Rita Gorenflo’s 7-year-old son Nathaniel was in severe pain from a sinus infection. But since the boy was covered by ...
Read More »Medicaid Patient Access At Stake In U.S. Supreme Court Case
WASHINGTON – Jan. 12, 2015 – The American Medical Association (AMA) and a coalition of several health care organizations have filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging the U.S. ...
Read More »E-Cigs May Lead to Respiratory Infections: Study
(HealthDay News) — Vapor from electronic cigarettes may increase young people’s risk of respiratory infections, whether or not it contains nicotine, a new laboratory study ...
Read More »Cancer Groups Urge More Regulation of E-Cigs
THURSDAY, Jan. 8, 2015 (HealthDay News) — The potential health hazards of e-cigarettes remain unclear, and more regulation on their use is needed, say two ...
Read More »PTSD May Lead To Type 2 Diabetes In Women
THURSDAY, Jan. 8, 2015 (HealthDay News) — Women with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) seem more likely than others to develop type 2 diabetes, with severe ...
Read More »Herceptin May Benefit Some Women With Early Breast Cancer
By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter (HealthDay News) — For some women with early breast tumors, lower-dose chemotherapy and the drug Herceptin may help ward off a ...
Read More »Physicians Discuss Pros, Cons of Maintenance of Certification
(HealthDay News) — The pros and cons of the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) are discussed in two articles published ...
Read More »Strategy Might Thwart Resistance to a Common Prostate Cancer Treatment
By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Jan. 7, 2015 (HealthDay News) — Conventional wisdom has it that high levels of testosterone help prostate cancers grow. However, ...
Read More »Medical School Uses ‘Seinfeld’ To Teach Psychiatry
It’s not unheard of to require medical students to watch a television show and discuss it the following day in class. It is unique, however, ...
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