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- Will I benefit from that drug?
(Sun, Feb 9, 2025)
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- Do doctors keep up to date with their medical knowledge?
(Sun, Feb 2, 2025)
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- Will AI replace clinicians?
(Sun, Jan 26, 2025)
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- When is a disease not a disease?
(Sun, Jan 19, 2025)
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- How Medical Data Bases Lead to Better Individual Treatment
(Sun, Jan 12, 2025)
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- Thinking of taking one of the new GLP-1 weight-loss drugs?
(Sun, Jan 5, 2025)
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- Listening to music in Refugee Camps
(Sun, Dec 29, 2024)
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- A tale of two kingdoms
(Sun, Dec 22, 2024)
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- The risk of a bird flu epidemic
(Sun, Dec 15, 2024)
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- Does free tuition impact medical student specialty choice?
(Sun, Dec 8, 2024)
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- Drug Promotion to the Public
(Sat, Nov 30, 2024)
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- Doctor, will you pray with me?
(Sun, Nov 24, 2024)
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- The importance of standing tall
(Sun, Nov 17, 2024)
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- As a group, are migrants less healthy?
(Sun, Nov 3, 2024)
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- Did the treatment really work?
(Sat, Oct 26, 2024)
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- Food Insecurity
(Sun, Oct 20, 2024)
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- Task Shifting
(Sun, Oct 13, 2024)
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- Should a mosquito-born illness seen in Los Angeles be of concern?
(Sun, Oct 6, 2024)
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- The marketing of depression
(Sun, Sep 29, 2024)
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- The role of genetics in depression
(Sun, Sep 22, 2024)
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- Protecting Dairy Farms
(Sun, Sep 15, 2024)
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- Endless gun violence
(Sun, Sep 8, 2024)
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- The one disease that has near-universal coverage
(Sun, Sep 1, 2024)
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- Failing to protect volunteers in research studies
(Sun, Aug 25, 2024)
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- Early Hospital Discharge
(Sun, Aug 18, 2024)
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- Is the new test for Alzheimer’s disease worth getting?
(Sun, Aug 11, 2024)
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- What elephant seals can tell us about our health.
(Sun, Aug 4, 2024)
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- Waiting for test results to come back
(Sun, Jul 28, 2024)
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- Unproven Claims for Dietary Supplements
(Sun, Jul 21, 2024)
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- Spirituality – A Missed Opportunity to Improve Health
(Sun, Jul 14, 2024)
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- Remembering Childhood Trauma
(Sat, Jul 6, 2024)
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- Contingency management to end addiction
(Sun, Jun 16, 2024)
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- Pharmaceutical gifts to healthcare providers
(Sun, Jun 9, 2024)
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- Delving into the depths of Dental Care
(Sun, Jun 2, 2024)
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- Changes coming with artificial intelligence
(Sun, May 26, 2024)
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- Medical Tourism
(Sun, May 19, 2024)
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- The impact of antimicrobial resistance on human health
(Sun, May 12, 2024)
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- Improving the environment to improve health
(Sun, May 5, 2024)
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- Confirmation Bias
(Sun, Apr 28, 2024)
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- Brain Drain
(Sun, Apr 21, 2024)
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- Those who receive the poorest healthcare in America
(Sun, Apr 14, 2024)
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- The importance of bird flu
(Sun, Apr 7, 2024)
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- Giving and Receiving Bad News
(Sun, Mar 31, 2024)
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- The recurrence of measles in a time of misinformation
(Sun, Mar 24, 2024)
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- Mistreated and Ignored
(Sun, Mar 17, 2024)
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- Batwa indigenous people of Uganda
(Sun, Mar 10, 2024)
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- Prevention in Uganda
(Sun, Mar 3, 2024)
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- Why can’t I prescribe a person a home?
(Sun, Feb 25, 2024)
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- Limited Access to Medical Records
(Sun, Feb 18, 2024)
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- Do grades motivate learning?
(Sun, Feb 11, 2024)
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- The health impact of microplastics
(Sun, Feb 4, 2024)
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- Superstitions and well-being
(Sun, Jan 28, 2024)
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- Diagnosing ADHD
(Sun, Jan 21, 2024)
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- The truth behind spinal cord stimulation
(Sun, Jan 14, 2024)
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- In memory of a medical hero
(Sun, Jan 7, 2024)
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- Home Testing for Cervical Cancer
(Sun, Dec 31, 2023)
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- Excessive Radiation from CT Scans
(Sun, Dec 24, 2023)
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- We don’t have the information we need on prescription drugs
(Sun, Dec 17, 2023)
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- Making Hepatitis C treatment available to all
(Sun, Dec 10, 2023)
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- Prescription Digital Tools
(Sun, Dec 3, 2023)
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- What is a normal part of aging?
(Sun, Nov 26, 2023)
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- The meaning of gratitude
(Sun, Nov 19, 2023)
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- When to report child or elderly abuse
(Mon, Nov 13, 2023)
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- Hospital Culture and End-of-Life Care
(Sun, Nov 5, 2023)
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- Is gambling a medical problem?
(Sun, Oct 29, 2023)
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- Hospital Discharge- given only a few hours to decide what’s next
(Sun, Oct 22, 2023)
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- Do we need black boxes in medicine?
(Sun, Oct 15, 2023)
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- Harm Reduction
(Sun, Oct 8, 2023)
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- Substance Abuse Part 1
(Sun, Oct 1, 2023)
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- Vector Borne Disease and Climate Change
(Sun, Sep 24, 2023)
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- The Popularity of Total Body MRI Scanning
(Sun, Sep 17, 2023)
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- Intergenerational Trauma
(Sun, Sep 10, 2023)
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- The meaning of being on the “BEST HOSPITAL” list
(Sun, Sep 3, 2023)
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- The impact of positive childhood experiences
(Sun, Aug 27, 2023)
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- Emotional Support Animals
(Sun, Aug 20, 2023)
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- Medical Research Volunteers are often poorly informed
(Sun, Aug 13, 2023)
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- The White Coat Ceremony – only a partial celebration.
(Sun, Aug 6, 2023)
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- Religion and Medicine often make strange partners
(Sun, Jul 30, 2023)
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- Ordering drug tests without permission
(Sun, Jul 23, 2023)
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- The new heavily promoted weight loss drugs
(Sun, Jul 16, 2023)
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- The doctor and allocating scarce resources
(Sun, Jul 9, 2023)
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- De-prescribing medications
(Sun, Jul 2, 2023)
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- One factor in picking the best surgeon
(Sun, Jun 25, 2023)
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- What we know about fathers
(Sun, Jun 18, 2023)
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- Cannabis for sleep
(Sun, Jun 11, 2023)
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- Meat consumption and human health (part 2)
(Sun, Jun 4, 2023)
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- The impact of meat consumption on human health
(Sun, May 28, 2023)
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- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
(Sun, May 21, 2023)
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- Is there a good time to stop screening for disease?
(Sun, May 14, 2023)
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- Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing
(Sun, May 7, 2023)
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- Screen for prostate cancer (PSA)
(Sun, Apr 30, 2023)
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- Reducing added sugar in our diet
(Sun, Apr 23, 2023)
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- Artificial Intelligence in End of Life Decisions
(Sun, Apr 16, 2023)
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- Unnecessary Pre-operative testing
(Sun, Apr 9, 2023)
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- Implied Consent
(Sun, Apr 2, 2023)
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- Video recordings of surgical procedures
(Sun, Mar 26, 2023)
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- A rising demand for medical imaging tests
(Sun, Mar 19, 2023)
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- Unacceptable COVID vaccine profits
(Sun, Mar 12, 2023)
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- The continued overuse of antibiotics
(Sun, Mar 5, 2023)
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- Medical issues following a disaster
(Sun, Feb 26, 2023)
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- Organ donations by prisoners
(Sun, Feb 19, 2023)
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- The Need for New Antibiotics
(Sun, Feb 12, 2023)
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- The problems with direct-to-consumer drug advertising
(Sun, Feb 5, 2023)
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- Making three wishes at the end of life
(Sun, Jan 29, 2023)
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- Pay for performance in healthcare
(Sun, Jan 22, 2023)
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- Too many blood tests
(Sun, Jan 15, 2023)
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- The complexity of a second opinion
(Sun, Jan 8, 2023)
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- 2022 End of Year Recap
(Sat, Dec 31, 2022)
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- “We got it all”
(Sun, Dec 25, 2022)
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- Putting technology ahead of the evidence
(Sun, Dec 18, 2022)
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- Injustice Disorder
(Sun, Dec 11, 2022)
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- Insulin production in California
(Sun, Dec 4, 2022)
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- Time for a new approach to Alzheimer’s Disease
(Sun, Nov 27, 2022)
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- The Limits of Specialty Care
(Sun, Nov 20, 2022)
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- Microplastics and human health
(Sun, Nov 13, 2022)
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- Monitoring poor air quality
(Sun, Nov 6, 2022)
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- The Care Cascade
(Sun, Oct 30, 2022)
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- The problems with body mass index (BMI)
(Sun, Oct 23, 2022)
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- Code Lavender
(Sun, Oct 16, 2022)
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- Reproductive Coercion
(Sun, Oct 9, 2022)
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- Medical Waste
(Sun, Oct 2, 2022)
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- Recommendations to screen for anxiety in adults
(Sun, Sep 25, 2022)
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- The move toward remote home monitoring
(Sun, Sep 18, 2022)
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- Abortion: States vs the Federal government
(Sun, Sep 11, 2022)
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- The health benefits of Camellia Sinensis (black tea)
(Sun, Sep 4, 2022)
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- The link between soil and health
(Sun, Aug 28, 2022)
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- Variations in the consumption of dairy products
(Sun, Aug 21, 2022)
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- Limitations of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
(Sun, Aug 14, 2022)
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- Informing relatives of genetic risks
(Sun, Aug 7, 2022)
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- Anti-depressants needs a major “rethink”
(Sun, Jul 31, 2022)
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- Video recording surgical operations
(Sun, Jul 24, 2022)
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- Wild and domestic pigs
(Sun, Jul 17, 2022)
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- Ignoring monkeypox at our own peril
(Sun, Jul 10, 2022)
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- The harms of too much and too little care
(Sun, Jul 3, 2022)
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- Ageism and its impact on health
(Sun, Jun 26, 2022)
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- Disappointment
(Sun, Jun 19, 2022)
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- A new kind of first responder
(Sun, Jun 12, 2022)
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- The Black Box Around Determining Physician Fees
(Sun, Jun 5, 2022)
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- Sharing information against a family’s wish
(Sun, May 29, 2022)
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- The heavy use of antidepressants in women
(Sun, May 22, 2022)
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- Friday the 13th
(Sun, May 15, 2022)
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- The importance of non-emergency transportation in health care
(Sun, May 8, 2022)
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- A One Health approach to tick borne diseases
(Sun, May 1, 2022)
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- Why do we still use the ineffective drug ivermectin for COVID-19?
(Sun, Apr 24, 2022)
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- Messages to reach the heart and mind
(Sun, Apr 17, 2022)
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- What do hospital rankings really tell us?
(Sun, Apr 10, 2022)
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- Challenging cholesterol statin use
(Sun, Apr 3, 2022)
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- Those with intellectual disabilities
(Sun, Mar 27, 2022)
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- The care of animals in times of war
(Sun, Mar 20, 2022)
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- The power of the health lobby
(Sun, Mar 13, 2022)
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- A re-emergence of polio
(Sun, Mar 6, 2022)
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- The impact of a changing mental health diagnosis
(Sun, Feb 27, 2022)
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- Learning and Practicing Medicine on Real Patients
(Sun, Feb 20, 2022)
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- Psilocybin: a treatment for depression
(Sun, Feb 13, 2022)
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- Medical prior authorizations for drugs and devices
(Sun, Feb 6, 2022)
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- Orphan drugs to treat rare disease
(Sun, Jan 30, 2022)
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- Can the treatment of serious mental illness be futile?
(Sun, Jan 23, 2022)
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- Health Disparities for those with disabilities
(Sun, Jan 16, 2022)
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- Do friends influence our body weight?
(Sun, Jan 9, 2022)
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- The science behind setting goals
(Sun, Jan 2, 2022)
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- Missing signs of elder abuse
(Sun, Dec 26, 2021)
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- Political promotion of a medicine can be powerful
(Sun, Dec 19, 2021)
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- What is low value health care?
(Sun, Dec 12, 2021)
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- Informing relatives at risk of genetic disease
(Sun, Dec 5, 2021)
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- How do we know if a drug works?
(Sun, Nov 28, 2021)
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- Sex difference in surgical referrals
(Sun, Nov 21, 2021)
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- Written words matter
(Sun, Nov 14, 2021)
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- When to stop antidepressants?
(Sun, Nov 7, 2021)
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- Back scratching: Medicine and drug companies
(Sun, Oct 31, 2021)
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- Daily aspirin to prevent heart attacks
(Sun, Oct 24, 2021)
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- The fallacy of Kubler-Ross stages of dying
(Sun, Oct 17, 2021)
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- Pregnancy, mental health, and more
(Sun, Oct 10, 2021)
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- A new twist for cigarette related disease
(Sun, Oct 3, 2021)
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- Dairy products and health
(Sun, Sep 26, 2021)
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- Practicing What You Preach
(Sun, Sep 19, 2021)
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- Lessons from 9-11
(Sun, Sep 12, 2021)
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- Robots in surgery
(Sun, Sep 5, 2021)
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- Defensive Medicine
(Sun, Aug 29, 2021)
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- Using the MRI to evaluate common back pain
(Sun, Aug 22, 2021)
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- The Legacy of Albert Bandura
(Sun, Aug 15, 2021)
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- Treating loneliness
(Sun, Aug 8, 2021)
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- After a diagnosis of lung cancer
(Sun, Aug 1, 2021)
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- Do people have an ethical right to have cosmetic surgery?
(Sun, Jul 25, 2021)
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- Refugee Mental Health
(Sun, Jul 18, 2021)
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- We need more training slots for medical residents
(Sun, Jul 11, 2021)
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- The double standard of medical marijuana cards
(Sun, Jul 4, 2021)
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- Live-Streaming Primary Care
(Sun, Jun 27, 2021)
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- Estimating the chance of disease
(Sun, Jun 20, 2021)
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- Mistaken approval of Alzheimer’s Drug
(Sun, Jun 13, 2021)
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- Marketing low value products
(Sun, Jun 6, 2021)
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- Using incentives to drive health care
(Sun, May 30, 2021)
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- Selecting your type of health care provider
(Sun, May 23, 2021)
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- The Promotion of Medical Devices
(Sun, May 16, 2021)
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- Involving Palliative Care too late
(Sun, May 9, 2021)
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- Protecting victims of domestic violence
(Sun, May 2, 2021)
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- Hospitalizing someone against their will
(Sun, Apr 25, 2021)
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- Overtreatment of common infections with antibiotics
(Sun, Apr 18, 2021)
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- The conflicts of interest between academic medical centers and medical industries
(Sun, Apr 11, 2021)
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- The complexities in diagnosing mental illness
(Sun, Apr 4, 2021)
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- The Complexities of Cannabis Use
(Sun, Mar 28, 2021)
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- Unequal access to palliative care
(Sun, Mar 21, 2021)
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- The impact of open medical records
(Fri, Mar 12, 2021)
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- Accuracy of newly approved cancer drugs
(Sun, Mar 7, 2021)
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- Unplanned pregnancies and contraceptives
(Sun, Feb 28, 2021)
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- The health risks of eating chicken eggs
(Sun, Feb 21, 2021)
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- The impact of stigma on sex workers
(Sun, Feb 14, 2021)
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- Treatments that just don’t work
(Sun, Feb 7, 2021)
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- Trauma and adversity can lead to resiliency
(Sun, Jan 31, 2021)
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- Does this treatment really work?
(Sun, Jan 24, 2021)
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- The Shkreli Awards for health care dysfunction and greed.
(Sun, Jan 17, 2021)
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- Entitlement and COVID
(Sun, Jan 10, 2021)
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- For those with chronic pain - does surgery lead to improvement?
(Sun, Jan 3, 2021)
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- Rationing care in times of COVID
(Sun, Dec 27, 2020)
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- How are you doing?
(Sun, Dec 20, 2020)
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- The advantages of wastewater epidemiology
(Sun, Dec 13, 2020)
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- Crossing your fingers – superstitions in medicine
(Sun, Dec 6, 2020)
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- Domestic Violence in times of COVID
(Sun, Nov 29, 2020)
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- Gut Feelings
(Sun, Nov 22, 2020)
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- The benefits of continuity of care
(Sun, Nov 15, 2020)
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- Changing the recommendations for colon cancer screening
(Sun, Nov 8, 2020)
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- The impact of bullying
(Sun, Nov 1, 2020)
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- What happens to all that PPE we discard?
(Sun, Oct 25, 2020)
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- Psychiatric hospitalization as a risk factor for premature death
(Sun, Oct 18, 2020)
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- Lessons from the bedside for American policy makers
(Sun, Oct 11, 2020)
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- Shame and how it keeps us from improving
(Sun, Sep 27, 2020)
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- Inappropriate Hysterectomies
(Sun, Sep 20, 2020)
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- Inappropriate use of the emergency department
(Sun, Sep 13, 2020)
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- In the pursuit of happiness
(Sun, Sep 6, 2020)
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- Food Safety and Security in times of COVID
(Sun, Aug 30, 2020)
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- Variations in hospital cesarean section rates
(Sun, Aug 23, 2020)
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- ACES and Trauma Informed Care Part 2
(Sun, Aug 16, 2020)
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- ACES and Trauma Informed Care: Part 1
(Sun, Aug 9, 2020)
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- The state of Alzheimer Disease in America
(Sun, Aug 2, 2020)
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- The impact of race on kidney transplantation
(Sun, Jul 26, 2020)
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- The prohibition against marijuana in the hospital
(Sun, Jul 19, 2020)
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- Leaving the World Health Organization
(Sun, Jul 12, 2020)
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- A practical steps to protect those at risk of suicide
(Sun, Jul 5, 2020)
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- Changes in thinking about blood pressure
(Sun, Jun 28, 2020)
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- Practice Guidelines the drive toward racial disparities
(Sun, Jun 21, 2020)
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- Medical Leadership and Conflicts of Interest
(Sun, Jun 14, 2020)
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- Racism and Medicine
(Sun, Jun 7, 2020)
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- The dangerous use of off label prescribing in times of a pandemic
(Sun, May 31, 2020)
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- Implicit Bias in Mental Health
(Sun, May 24, 2020)
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- The right to NOT know a medical diagnosis
(Sun, May 17, 2020)
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- 200 years of change started by one woman
(Sun, May 10, 2020)
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- The origins of the antiviral drug Remdesivir
(Sun, May 3, 2020)
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- Fake news and its impact on health
(Sun, Apr 26, 2020)
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- The stigma around COVID can be as dangerous as the virus, says Dr. Wilkes
(Sun, Apr 19, 2020)
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- COVID-19 in Africa
(Sun, Apr 12, 2020)
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- Missed lessons from the Ebola Outbreak
(Sun, Apr 5, 2020)
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- Disease patterns and planetary health
(Sun, Mar 29, 2020)
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- Our behavior changes when we are being watched
(Sun, Mar 22, 2020)
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- A health care birthday
(Sun, Mar 15, 2020)
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- The need to focus on de-prescribing
(Sun, Mar 8, 2020)
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- Do health care providers have a duty to work during pandemics?
(Sun, Mar 1, 2020)
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- There is so much we don’t know about cannabis
(Sun, Feb 23, 2020)
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- Hospital bills can have an impact on our health
(Sun, Feb 16, 2020)
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- Reducing hospital infections
(Sun, Feb 9, 2020)
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- Pandemics vs Epidemics
(Sun, Feb 2, 2020)
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- Vaccines and the N-Corona Virus
(Sun, Jan 26, 2020)
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- Bias can have a large impact on health
(Sun, Jan 19, 2020)
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- Natural Gas and health
(Sun, Jan 12, 2020)
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- Unnecessary lab tests pushed by a vendor
(Sun, Jan 5, 2020)
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- Putting off serious health care treatments
(Sun, Dec 29, 2019)
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- As long as your around your family…
(Sun, Dec 22, 2019)
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- Sending children with HIV to school in Uganda
(Sun, Dec 15, 2019)
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- The plague of Romanian health care
(Sun, Dec 8, 2019)
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- Epigenetics
(Sun, Dec 1, 2019)
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- The impact of gratitude
(Sun, Nov 24, 2019)
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- The risks and benefits of daily aspirin
(Sun, Nov 17, 2019)
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- A tale of two dying patients
(Sun, Nov 10, 2019)
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- Medicine is plagued by miscommunication
(Sun, Nov 3, 2019)
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- The unsung heroes of the American health care system
(Sun, Oct 27, 2019)
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- The necessity of taking supplements to improve health
(Sun, Oct 20, 2019)
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- Is it safe to increase consumption of red meat?
(Sun, Oct 13, 2019)
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- Success at preventing HIV but putting profit ahead of public health
(Sun, Oct 6, 2019)
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- The Unionization of Medicine - part 2
(Sun, Sep 29, 2019)
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- The Unionization of Medicine – part 1
(Sun, Sep 22, 2019)
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- Women’s poor health not only a result of poverty
(Sun, Sep 15, 2019)
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- The impact of poverty on health care in Africa
(Sun, Sep 8, 2019)
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- Missed opportunities at the end of life
(Sun, Sep 1, 2019)
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- Medicine is plagued by conflicts of interest
(Sun, Aug 25, 2019)
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- The impact of work-related stress on DNA
(Sun, Aug 18, 2019)
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- Why does the federal government provide comprehensive care to those with end stage renal disease but not to those with other life threatening illnesses?
(Sun, Aug 11, 2019)
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- What our approach to kidney disease says about us as a nation
(Sun, Aug 4, 2019)
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- Does it matter how your doctor or nurse is dressed?
(Sun, Jul 28, 2019)
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- An ambulance is not a medical taxi
(Sun, Jul 21, 2019)
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- Hospital Price Transparency
(Sun, Jul 14, 2019)
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- Shared Decision Making
(Sun, Jul 7, 2019)
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- Workplace Wellness Programs
(Sun, Jun 30, 2019)
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- A new batch of interns and residents, but some things haven’t changed
(Sun, Jun 23, 2019)
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- When making medical decisions we often act irrationally
(Sun, Jun 16, 2019)
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- Is something wrong with the VA?
(Sun, Jun 9, 2019)
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- Politicians have long held woman’s health hostage
(Sun, Jun 2, 2019)
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- Mental health: An unrecognized problem
(Sun, May 26, 2019)
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- Standing up for women
(Sun, May 19, 2019)
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- Direct to Consumer Genetic testing isn’t ready for prime time
(Sun, May 12, 2019)
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- The need for a just culture in health care
(Sun, May 5, 2019)
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- Diversity of our doctors benefits our nation
(Sun, Apr 28, 2019)
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- Changing prescribers' behaviors to stop prescribing drugs that don’t work.
(Sun, Apr 21, 2019)
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- The impact of hearing loss
(Sun, Apr 14, 2019)
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- Rating an Uber Driver
(Sun, Apr 7, 2019)
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- Anti Depressants: new and old
(Sun, Mar 31, 2019)
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- Root Cause Analysis in disasters
(Sun, Mar 24, 2019)
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- Given the same type of bone fracture, are people likely to get the same treatment for pain?
(Sun, Mar 17, 2019)
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- Racial and Ethnic Difference in medication for pain and anxiety (Part 1)
(Sun, Mar 10, 2019)
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- There can be hidden meaning in a medical term
(Sun, Mar 3, 2019)
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- Aging Surgeons pose some complicated problems
(Sun, Feb 24, 2019)
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- Hospital Readmission Rates are too high
(Sun, Feb 17, 2019)
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- Supervised Injection Facilities for those who use IV drug
(Sun, Feb 10, 2019)
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- Shkreli awards for the worst actors in health care
(Sun, Feb 3, 2019)
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- Transgender youth are suffering greatly
(Sun, Jan 27, 2019)
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- STI: Sexually Transmitted Infections: Treatment for two
(Sun, Jan 20, 2019)
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- How do physicians assistants and nurse practitioner compare with physicians on meaningful outcomes?
(Sun, Jan 13, 2019)
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- Medical illness and mental illness are not treated equally
(Sun, Jan 6, 2019)
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- The Eradication of Polio
(Sun, Dec 30, 2018)
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- The new third person in the exam room
(Sun, Dec 23, 2018)
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- Why are people afraid to sign up for government programs meant to protect them?
(Sun, Dec 16, 2018)
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- Limits of Confidentiality
(Sun, Dec 9, 2018)
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- The decrease in life expectancy is far more complicated than just an opioid epidemic
(Sun, Dec 2, 2018)
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- Why do people leave the hospital against the advice of their doctor?
(Sun, Nov 25, 2018)
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- It is time to expand and defend our lane for the public’s good.
(Sun, Nov 18, 2018)
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- With a new divided federal government is there any chance that Americans can expect effective health care legislation?
(Sun, Nov 11, 2018)
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- The Semmelweis Effect
(Sun, Nov 4, 2018)
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- Acute Flaccid Myelitis – what appears to be a new disease that is still surrounded by a great deal of uncertainty.
(Sun, Oct 28, 2018)
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- Trauma Related Care
(Sun, Oct 21, 2018)
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- Conversations around pain
(Sun, Oct 14, 2018)
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- The Mother of All Epidemics
(Sun, Oct 7, 2018)
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- Male circumcision isn’t as barbaric as it seems and for some it has important health benefits.
(Sun, Sep 30, 2018)
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- Measuring Patient Satisfaction
(Sun, Sep 23, 2018)
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- Population based research that benefits ALL OF US
(Sun, Sep 16, 2018)
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- Hospital Rankings aren't all they're cracked up to be
(Sun, Sep 9, 2018)
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- Stigmatized Language
(Sun, Sep 2, 2018)
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- Disease mongering and hypertension
(Sun, Aug 26, 2018)
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- What’s wrong with free medical school?
(Sun, Aug 19, 2018)
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- Preparing for the inevitable oil spill
(Sun, Aug 12, 2018)
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- Mosquitos remain the most common inspect spreading serious disease around the globe
(Sun, Aug 5, 2018)
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- The world's garbage is one health problem
(Sun, 29, )(Jul 13:35:00 2018, +0000)
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- A resurgence of world hunger
(Sun, Jul 22, 2018)
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- Confusion around mental illness
(Sun, Jul 15, 2018)
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- A common sense solution to the opioid crisis
(Sun, Jul 8, 2018)
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- A neglected tropical disease
(Sun, Jul 1, 2018)
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- The science of the nudge
(Sun, Jun 24, 2018)
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- The link between weight and guilt
(Sun, Jun 17, 2018)
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- Too much news of suicide
(Sun, Jun 10, 2018)
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- Impaired physicians are dangerous at work
(Sun, Jun 3, 2018)
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- Is basic life sustaining healthcare a right or a privilege?
(Sun, May 27, 2018)
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- Ebola returns and it deserves our attention
(Sun, May 20, 2018)
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- The oversized problem of arthritis
(Sun, May 13, 2018)
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- Striking in health care
(Sun, May 6, 2018)
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- A tale of two extremes
(Sun, Apr 29, 2018)
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- When journalists get it wrong
(Sun, Apr 22, 2018)
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- It's time to start to change some of the silly rules in health care
(Sun, Apr 15, 2018)
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- Sex trafficking
(Sun, Apr 8, 2018)
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- Out of hospital cardiac arrest
(Sun, Apr 1, 2018)
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- Early teenage drinking
(Sun, Mar 25, 2018)
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- White coats against gun violence
(Sun, Mar 18, 2018)
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- The health of the world's adolescents
(Sun, Mar 11, 2018)
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- Limitations of antidepressant medications
(Sun, Mar 4, 2018)
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- How do we get the doctors we need?
(Sun, Feb 25, 2018)
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- Working when sick
(Sun, Feb 18, 2018)
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- Paying doctors to keep costs low
(Sun, Feb 11, 2018)
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- Just because we do the surgery doesn't mean it works
(Sun, Feb 4, 2018)
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- Karla's trip home
(Sun, Jan 28, 2018)
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- Conversations around Pain
(Sun, Jan 21, 2018)
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- Influenza: 2018
(Sun, Jan 14, 2018)
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- Brain death
(Sun, Jan 7, 2018)
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- A chance meeting
(Sun, Dec 31, 2017)
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- Abstinence only education
(Sun, Dec 24, 2017)
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- Bigger is not better
(Sun, Dec 17, 2017)
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- New national recommendations for blood pressure control
(Sun, Dec 10, 2017)
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- Are there health benefits from a daily drink of alcohol?
(Sun, Dec 3, 2017)
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- Medical conditions resulting in unsafe driving
(Sun, Nov 26, 2017)
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- Regret in medicine
(Sun, Nov 19, 2017)
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- A forgotten population with a life threatening disease
(Sun, Nov 12, 2017)
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- Hospital vampires
(Sun, Nov 5, 2017)
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- When it's time to stop getting routine screening tests
(Sun, Oct 29, 2017)
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- Losers when we reduce free access to birth control
(Sun, Oct 22, 2017)
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- Making your wishes known
(Sun, Oct 15, 2017)
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- Advances in health
(Sun, Oct 8, 2017)
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- Confusing language
(Sun, Oct 1, 2017)
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- Do we really want our kids playing football?
(Sun, Sep 24, 2017)
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- Dentistry: the odd man out
(Sun, Sep 17, 2017)
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- Re-emerging sexually transmitted diseases
(Sun, Sep 10, 2017)
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- The 'white coat ceremony'
(Sun, Sep 3, 2017)
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- The difficulty in diagnosing mental illness
(Sun, Aug 27, 2017)
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- Dengue, an illness that is spreading worldwide
(Sun, Aug 20, 2017)
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- The impact of time on kindness
(Sun, Aug 13, 2017)
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- Human microbiome
(Sat, Aug 5, 2017)
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- When a colleague is impaired
(Sun, , )( Jul 30, 2017)
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- The link between teens, marijuana and depression
(Sun, Jul 23, 2017)
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- Cutting the CDC budget
(Sun, Jul 16, 2017)
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- The 'surprise' question
(Sun, Jul 9, 2017)
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- A plant for that may just be the answer
(Sun, Jul 2, 2017)
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- Risk factors for chronic opioid use
(Sun, Jun 25, 2017)
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- Blushing
(Sun, Jun 18, 2017)
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- Drug promotion drives up health care costs
(Sun, Jun 11, 2017)
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- Does technology drive up health costs?
(Sun, Jun 4, 2017)
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- Conscientious objectors in medicine
(Sun, May 28, 2017)
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- Poverty as a risk factor for illness
(Sun, May 21, 2017)
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- Drugs that don’t work
(Sun, May 14, 2017)
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- Pharmaceutical promotion to health providers
(Sun, May 7, 2017)
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- Benefits of medical marijuana
(Sun, Apr 30, 2017)
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- FDA permits sales of genetic tests to the public
(Sun, Apr 23, 2017)
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- Prostate cancer screening recommendations
(Sun, Apr 16, 2017)
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- Learning from others
(Sun, Apr 9, 2017)
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- Do we need more doctors?
(Sun, Apr 2, 2017)
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- Bullying patients to get what we want
(Sun, Mar 26, 2017)
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- Our judgmental side
(Sun, Mar 19, 2017)
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- The doubtful case of walking pneumonia
(Sun, Mar 12, 2017)
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- The use of animals in medicine
(Sun, Mar 5, 2017)
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- The making of a healthy nation
(Sun, Feb 26, 2017)
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- Complaining
(Sun, Feb 19, 2017)
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- Right care is good care
(Sun, Feb 12, 2017)
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- The basis of stigma
(Sun, Feb 5, 2017)
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- We need to stop talking
(Sun, Jan 29, 2017)
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- Vitamins and supplements
(Sun, Jan 22, 2017)
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- ACA: A policy that benefits us all
(Sun, Jan 15, 2017)
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- Lying in medicine, Part 2
(Sun, Jan 8, 2017)
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- Telling the truth in medicine
(Sun, Jan 1, 2017)
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- Science in the service of industry
(Sun, Dec 25, 2016)
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- Phone Addiction
(Sun, Dec 11, 2016)
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- Organized medicine and Dr. Tom Price
(Sun, Dec 4, 2016)
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- Healing the healers
(Sun, Nov 27, 2016)
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- Do government funded clinics waste tax payer's money?
(Sun, Nov 20, 2016)
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- Bias directed against healthcare providers
(Sun, Nov 13, 2016)
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- Proposition 61: Time to end pharmaceutical price gouging
(Sun, Nov 6, 2016)
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- The impact of human migration on One Health
(Sun, Oct 30, 2016)
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- Is talk therapy effective for depression?
(Sun, Oct 23, 2016)
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- Ben Stiller's claim that a blood test saved his life
(Sun, Oct 16, 2016)
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- We could do much better delivering women's healthcare
(Sun, Oct 9, 2016)
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- Bias toward heavy people
(Sun, Oct 2, 2016)
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- Sales people in the operating room
(Sun, Sep 25, 2016)
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- Misdemeanors in medicine
(Sun, Sep 18, 2016)
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- What role do letter grades play in learning?
(Sun, Sep 11, 2016)
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- Predicting dementia in people without symptoms
(Sun, Sep 4, 2016)
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- Medical ignorance around medical marijuana
(Sun, Aug 28, 2016)
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- Hospitalists: a new face you've never met before
(Sun, Aug 21, 2016)
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- Zika: A new player in a familiar story
(Sun, Aug 14, 2016)
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- Practice Guidelines: recipes for best practice
(Sun, Aug 7, 2016)
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- Physician Suicide: A Canary in the Coal Mine
(Sun, Jul 31, 2016)
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- Unrealistic Cancer Care
(Sun, Jul 24, 2016)
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- High Cost of Medical Education
(Sun, Jul 17, 2016)
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- Old Habits Die Hard
(Fri, Jul 8, 2016)
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- To Operate or Not?
(Sun, Jul 3, 2016)
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- Difficult Choices at 30,000 Feet
(Sun, Jun 26, 2016)
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- Bias in Medicine
(Sun, Jun 19, 2016)
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- Being Held as a Medical Hostage
(Sun, Jun 12, 2016)
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- San Francisco's Latest Attempt to Reduce Obesity
(Sun, Jun 5, 2016)
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- Good News, a Drop in Opioid Prescriptions?
(Sun, May 29, 2016)
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- High Rates of Medical Error Rates Are Probably Incorrect
(Sun, May 22, 2016)
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- Physician Suicide: A Canary in the Coal Mine
(Sun, May 15, 2016)
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- Declining Teen Birth Rates
(Sun, May 8, 2016)
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- Doctors' Right to Choose
(Sun, May 1, 2016)
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- The Violent Brain
(Sun, Apr 24, 2016)
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- A Medical Who Done It
(Sun, Apr 10, 2016)
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- Gender in Elite Sports
(Sun, Apr 3, 2016)
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- Physical Pain Linked to Economic Pain
(Sun, Mar 27, 2016)
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- The Heavy Cost of Direct-to-Consumer Advertising
(Sun, Mar 20, 2016)
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- The Extinction of a Vital Measure of Quality Control
(Sun, Mar 13, 2016)
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- The Role of Government in Health
(Sun, Mar 6, 2016)
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- Futility and Doctors in Training
(Sun, Feb 28, 2016)
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- A Never Ending Fight over Doctors' Work Hours
(Sun, Feb 21, 2016)
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- It Can't Hurt to Look!
(Sun, Feb 14, 2016)
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- Zika: Surrounded by Uncertainty
(Sun, Feb 7, 2016)
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- Special Needs
(Sun, Jan 31, 2016)
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- Elephants and Cancer
(Sun, Jan 24, 2016)
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- American Wants to Die at Home
(Sun, Jan 17, 2016)
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- Compassion in Medicine
(Sun, Jan 10, 2016)
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- Tragedy of the Commons
(Sun, Jan 3, 2016)
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- Gifts Are Not Expected
(Sun, Dec 27, 2015)
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- What Constitutes a "Ground-breaking New Drug?"
(Sun, Dec 20, 2015)
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- Mandatory Reporting of Teen Sex
(Sun, Dec 13, 2015)
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- Performance Enhancing Drugs Are No Longer Just for Athletes
(Sun, Dec 6, 2015)
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- Hospital Refunds to Improve Care
(Sun, Nov 29, 2015)
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- Those Pesky Pharmaceutical Advertisements
(Sun, Nov 22, 2015)
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- Biased Dietary Guidelines
(Sun, Nov 15, 2015)
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- Disease Mongering: A Public Forum
(Sun, Nov 8, 2015)
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- Refugees in Germany
(Sun, Nov 1, 2015)
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- It's Time for Your Flu Shot
(Sun, Oct 25, 2015)
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- PET Scans for Early Cancer
(Sun, Oct 18, 2015)
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- A Return of an Old Plague
(Sun, Oct 11, 2015)
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- Stopping CPR
(Sun, Oct 4, 2015)
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- Does Greed Know No Limits?
(Sun, Sep 27, 2015)
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- The Power of Words
(Sun, Sep 20, 2015)
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- A Half-Baked Pie
(Sun, Sep 13, 2015)
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- There's a Great Deal of Meaning in a Name
(Sun, Sep 6, 2015)
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- An Insider's Look at Breast Cancer Care
(Sun, Aug 30, 2015)
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- Again We Find More Is Not Better
(Sun, Aug 23, 2015)
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- Are We Serious about Longer Working Hours?
(Sun, Aug 16, 2015)
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- Mental Health Is Just Not the Same
(Sun, Aug 9, 2015)
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- Antibiotic Overuse
(Sun, Aug 2, 2015)
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- Happy Birthday Medicare
(Sun, Jul 26, 2015)
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- A Disease with No Cause
(Sun, Jul 19, 2015)
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- Two Health Systems That Co-exist
(Sun, Jul 12, 2015)
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- TB in Elephants
(Sun, Jul 5, 2015)
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- Culture and Gender in Sri Lanka
(Sun, Jun 28, 2015)
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- Animal: Human Conflict
(Sun, Jun 21, 2015)
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- Where Do They Get These FDA Advisory Committees?
(Sun, Jun 14, 2015)
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- On the Ground in Nepal
(Sun, Jun 7, 2015)
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- Medico-voluntourism
(Sun, May 31, 2015)
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- One Health – New Evidence on the Environment – Body Link
(Sun, May 24, 2015)
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- Use of Placebos in Africa
(Sun, May 17, 2015)
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- Trade Agreements and Tobacco Products
(Sun, May 10, 2015)
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- How Did Evolution Provide for the Human-Dog Bond?
(Sun, May 3, 2015)
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- How Do We Tell if Your Doctor Is Up to Date?
(Sun, Apr 26, 2015)
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- Is Government's Job to Protect Kids or Business?
(Sun, Apr 19, 2015)
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- More on Hepatitis C
(Sun, Apr 12, 2015)
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- Why We Don’t Tip the Doctor
(Sun, Apr 5, 2015)
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- Making Assumptions about Mental Illness
(Sun, Mar 29, 2015)
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- A New Treatments for Hepatitis C
(Sun, Mar 22, 2015)
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- Violence in China
(Sun, Mar 15, 2015)
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- Prostate Cancer Screening Revisited
(Sun, Mar 8, 2015)
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- Sex Education a Changin'
(Sun, Mar 1, 2015)
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- Information Is Everything
(Sun, Feb 22, 2015)
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- Drinking Alcohol for Health
(Sun, Feb 15, 2015)
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- A Faulty Diagnosis
(Sun, Feb 8, 2015)
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- The Top 1%
(Sun, Feb 1, 2015)
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- Medications at the End of Life
(Sun, Jan 25, 2015)
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- Does the Flu Medicine Work?
(Sun, Jan 18, 2015)
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- Do You Need to Have Your Cholesterol Checked?
(Sun, Jan 11, 2015)
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- Paper Medical Records: A New Step Forward?
(Sun, Jan 4, 2015)
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- Hospital Care
(Sun, Dec 28, 2014)
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- Two Patients and Two Doctors
(Sun, Dec 21, 2014)
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- The Attraction of Horoscopes
(Sun, Dec 14, 2014)
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- No Rest for the Weary
(Sun, Dec 7, 2014)
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- Finding a New Doctor
(Sun, Nov 30, 2014)
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- Complexity in Healthcare
(Sun, Nov 23, 2014)
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- Treating Heroin Addiction
(Sun, Nov 16, 2014)
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- Are There Certain Things that Are Off Limits for Doctors to Discuss?
(Sun, Nov 9, 2014)
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- Proposition 46
(Sun, Nov 2, 2014)
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- Alarms Are Driving Us Crazy
(Sun, Oct 26, 2014)
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- How Can We Be So Certain?
(Sun, Oct 19, 2014)
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- New Approaches to Reducing Teen Pregnancy
(Sun, Oct 12, 2014)
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- News Round Up
(Sun, Oct 5, 2014)
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- A Modern Medical Mystery
(Sun, Sep 28, 2014)
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- Elderly Issues in Sri Lanka
(Sun, Sep 21, 2014)
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- Suicide in Sri Lanka
(Sun, Sep 14, 2014)
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- Why Doctors Get Infected With Ebola
(Sun, Sep 7, 2014)
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- Is It a Double Standard?
(Sun, Aug 31, 2014)
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- Untreatable Terrible Tummy Pain
(Sun, Aug 24, 2014)
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- Changed by Ebola
(Sun, Aug 17, 2014)
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- Changes Needed in How We Train Doctors
(Sun, Aug 10, 2014)
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- Competition in the Market Place
(Sun, Aug 3, 2014)
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- Summer Dehydration
(Sun, Jul 27, 2014)
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- Pills vs Self Confidence
(Sun, Jul 20, 2014)
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- Treatment for Clogged Ears
(Sun, Jul 13, 2014)
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- How Can We Make Good Decisions with Poor Information?
(Sun, Jul 6, 2014)
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- Less May Be More and Older May Be Better
(Sun, Jun 29, 2014)
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- Playing Nicely in the Sandbox
(Sun, Jun 22, 2014)
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- Stemming the Increase in Gun Violence
(Sun, Jun 15, 2014)
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- Collecting Gone Array
(Sun, Jun 8, 2014)
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- Encouraging People to Be Healthy
(Sun, Jun 1, 2014)
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- Poor Grades for Sex Education
(Sun, May 25, 2014)
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- What's in Common Medications?
(Sun, May 18, 2014)
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- Do a Few Moments of Discussion Make a Difference?
(Sun, May 11, 2014)
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- Female Empowerment
(Sun, May 4, 2014)
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- Reducing HIV with Male Circumcision
(Sun, Apr 27, 2014)
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- Improving Milk Production to Improve Health
(Sun, Apr 20, 2014)
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- One Health as a New Concept
(Sun, Apr 13, 2014)
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- Rwandan Genocide Commemoration
(Sun, Apr 6, 2014)
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- Remembering So as Not to Forgot
(Sun, Mar 30, 2014)
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- Follow Up Instructions
(Fri, Mar 28, 2014)
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- Medicare
(Fri, Mar 28, 2014)
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- Rwandan Response to Gay Men
(Sun, Mar 23, 2014)
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- Warm Eggs in Africa
(Sun, Mar 16, 2014)
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- Infectious Diseases Are No Longer the Major Killers in Africa
(Sun, Mar 9, 2014)
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- A Motorized Way out of Poverty in Africa?
(Sun, Mar 2, 2014)
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- Waiting For A Miracle
(Fri, Feb 21, 2014)
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- An African Problem That Should Worry Us All
(Sun, Feb 16, 2014)
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- Culture and Generalizations
(Sun, Feb 9, 2014)
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- National Volunteer Day
(Sun, Feb 2, 2014)
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- Morning Rounds
(Sun, Jan 26, 2014)
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- Unintended Pregnancies in Rwanda
(Sun, Jan 19, 2014)
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- A Roadside Accident in Rwanda
(Sun, Jan 12, 2014)
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- A Small Problem with a Large Impact
(Sun, Jan 5, 2014)
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- Neurology without Scans
(Sun, Dec 29, 2013)
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- Creative Options in Rwanda
(Sun, Dec 22, 2013)
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- A New Model of Funding Healthcare in Africa
(Sun, Dec 15, 2013)
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- Rwanda
(Sun, Dec 8, 2013)
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- Lots of Unnecessary Lab Tests
(Sun, Dec 1, 2013)
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- Conscientious Objectors
(Sun, Nov 24, 2013)
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- Do We Really Need More Medical Doctors?
(Sun, Nov 17, 2013)
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- When Is a Favor More than Just a Favor?
(Sun, Nov 10, 2013)
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- Secretly Taping a Conversation
(Sun, Nov 3, 2013)
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- Permission for Sensitive Exams
(Sun, Oct 27, 2013)
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- Another Reason that American Medical Care Is So Expensive
(Sun, Oct 20, 2013)
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- More is Less
(Sun, Oct 13, 2013)
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- How Many Beds in the Hospital Room?
(Sun, Oct 6, 2013)
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- Futile Care in the ICU
(Sun, Sep 29, 2013)
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- Medical Non-adherence
(Sun, Sep 15, 2013)
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- e-Cigarettes
(Sun, Sep 8, 2013)
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- Change Doesn't Come Easily
(Sun, Sep 1, 2013)
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- How Doctors Think
(Sun, Aug 25, 2013)
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- It Takes Two to Tango
(Sun, Aug 18, 2013)
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- Being a Nice Person
(Sun, Aug 11, 2013)
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- Offering a Prognosis
(Sun, Aug 4, 2013)
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- Cardiac Arrest
(Sun, Jul 28, 2013)
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- Doctors and Drug Company Sales Reps
(Sun, Jul 21, 2013)
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- Pay for Delay
(Sun, Jul 14, 2013)
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- Random Drug Testing for Doctors
(Sun, Jul 7, 2013)
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- Elective Cesarean Sections
(Sun, Jun 30, 2013)
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- Overtreatment Is Killing Us
(Sun, Jun 23, 2013)
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- Treating Fat People
(Sun, Jun 16, 2013)
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- Would We Be Healthier if We Increased Clinical Testing?
(Sun, Jun 9, 2013)
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- Can We Play Nicely in the Sandbox?
(Sun, Jun 2, 2013)
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- Variations in Quantity and Cost of Care
(Sun, May 26, 2013)
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- Mother’s Day and Caring
(Fri, May 10, 2013)
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- Secret Shoppers in Healthcare
(Sun, May 5, 2013)
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- What Is a Mental Illness?
(Sun, Apr 28, 2013)
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- Risk in a Crazy World
(Sun, Apr 21, 2013)
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- Less Is Often More
(Sun, Apr 14, 2013)
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- Emergency Contraception
(Sun, Apr 7, 2013)
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- Back Pain
(Sun, Mar 31, 2013)
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- Stigmatizing Language
(Sun, Mar 24, 2013)
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- Inattentional Blindness
(Sun, Mar 17, 2013)
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- Substance Abuse and New Health Insurance Laws
(Sun, Mar 3, 2013)
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- How Hard to Push?
(Sun, Feb 24, 2013)
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- Conflict of Interest Rules for Drug Company Interactions
(Sun, Feb 17, 2013)
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- Politics, Guns and Public Health
(Sun, Feb 10, 2013)
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- Abortions, Pregnancies and Roe v. Wade
(Sun, Jan 27, 2013)
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- Prescribing drugs never proven to work
(Sun, Jan 20, 2013)
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- Drug prices are going through the roof!
(Sun, Jan 13, 2013)
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- Doctors' Hours
(Sun, Dec 30, 2012)
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- Liberties versus Public Health
(Sun, Dec 23, 2012)
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- Disease Mongering
(Sun, Dec 16, 2012)
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- Research on childhood illnesses
(Sun, Dec 9, 2012)
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- New Hospital Discharge Rules
(Sun, Dec 2, 2012)
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- Stress
(Sun, Nov 25, 2012)
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- The Impact of Still Births
(Sun, Nov 18, 2012)
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- Intellectual Property Rights
(Sun, Nov 11, 2012)
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- Tropical Diseases
(Sun, Nov 4, 2012)
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- Doctors' Salaries
(Sun, Oct 28, 2012)
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- Medicine Driven by Incentives
(Sun, Oct 21, 2012)
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- Patenting Genes
(Sun, Oct 14, 2012)
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- CNN Has Forgotten Its Mission
(Sun, Oct 7, 2012)
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- Rationing Health Care
(Sun, Sep 30, 2012)
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- Frequent Flyers
(Sun, Sep 23, 2012)
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- Is the Physical Exam Necessary?
(Sun, Sep 16, 2012)
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- Food Insecurity in America
(Sun, Sep 9, 2012)
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- Internet Pornography
(Sun, Sep 2, 2012)
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- Sleeping with Snorers
(Sun, Aug 26, 2012)
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- Olympic Syndrome
(Sun, Aug 12, 2012)
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- Closet Psychiatrists
(Sun, Aug 5, 2012)
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- Offering CPR when not indicated
(Sun, Jul 29, 2012)
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- CPR in the Hospital
(Sun, Jul 22, 2012)
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- Testing for Alzheimer's Disease
(Sun, Jul 15, 2012)
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- Caution in the Back Yard
(Sun, Jul 8, 2012)
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- Vitamin D for Preventive Care
(Sun, Jul 1, 2012)
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- Spending Healthcare Dollars Abroad
(Sun, Jun 24, 2012)
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- Hospital Translation Services
(Sun, Jun 17, 2012)
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- Prostate Cancer Screening
(Sun, Jun 10, 2012)
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- Traditional Birth Attendants in Africa
(Sun, Jun 3, 2012)
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- Advice from behind the Counter
(Sun, May 27, 2012)
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- Training More Doctors
(Sun, May 20, 2012)
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- Getting to the Hospital in an Emergency
(Sun, May 13, 2012)
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- Hearing Impairment and Aging
(Sun, May 6, 2012)
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- America's Top Doctors
(Sun, Apr 29, 2012)
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- Foreign Trained Doctors
(Sun, Apr 22, 2012)
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- Rabies in California
(Sun, Apr 8, 2012)
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- Regardless of the Dose the Drug is Ineffective
(Sun, Apr 1, 2012)
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- The Greening of Medicine
(Sun, Mar 25, 2012)
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- Drug Company Fraud
(Sun, Mar 18, 2012)
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- Caregivers
(Sun, Mar 11, 2012)
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- Do Doctors Need Shopping Carts?
(Sun, Mar 4, 2012)
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- Drug Shortages
(Sun, Feb 26, 2012)
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- Low Salt Recommendations
(Su , )(n, Feb 19, 2012)
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- Hard Fought Battles for Women
(Sun, Feb 12, 2012)
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- Disclosing Medical Errors
(Sun, Feb 5, 2012)
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- Searching for open access to medical research
(Sun, Jan 22, 2012)
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- Students in Foreign Lands
(Sun, Jan 15, 2012)
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- Information Can Be Like a Pill
(Sun, Jan 8, 2012)
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- Deafness and Disability
(Sun, Jan 1, 2012)
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- A Technology Arms Race
(Sun, Dec 25, 2011)
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- Biting the Hand that Feeds You
(Sun, Dec 18, 2011)
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- Emergency Contraception for Teens
(Sun, Dec 11, 2011)
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- When a Patient Decides NOT to Know
(Sun, Dec 4, 2011)
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- Choosing the Best Hospital
(Sun, Nov 27, 2011)
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- Difficult Discussions
(Sun, Nov 20, 2011)
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- Teenage Drivers
(Sun, Nov 13, 2011)
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- Back Pain and Placebos
(Sun, Nov 6, 2011)
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- Why Do the Japanese Live So Long?
(Sun, Oct 30, 2011)
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- Why Are People Going to the Doctor Less Often?
(Sun, Oct 23, 2011)
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- Sound Recommendations about Prostate Cancer Screening
(Sun, Oct 16, 2011)
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- New Federal Conflicts of Interest Regulations
(Sun, Oct 9, 2011)
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- Home Blood Pressure Monitoring
(Sun, Oct 2, 2011)
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- Nurses Go on Strike
(Sun, Sep 25, 2011)
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- Outlawing Female Circumcision
(Sun, Sep 18, 2011)
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- Expedited Partner Therapy
(Sun, Sep 11, 2011)
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- Medical Scribes
(Sun, Sep 4, 2011)
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- Be Careful about Unnecessary Genetic Tests
(Sun, Aug 28, 2011)
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- It's Not the Person, It's the Pill
(Sun, Aug 21, 2011)
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- Is the Doctor's Duty Only to the Patient or to Society as Well?
(Sun, Aug 7, 2011)
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- The Quest for Beauty
(Sun, Jul 31, 2011)
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- A Giant Step Forward for Women's Health
(Sun, Jul 24, 2011)
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- Doctors Don't Deal with Uncertainty
(Sun, Jul 17, 2011)
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- New Research Findings with Some Obvious Results
(Sun, Jul 10, 2011)
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- New rules to reduce medical resident fatigue
(Sun, Jul 3, 2011)
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- The Pro-Pharmaceutical Opinion of the Supreme Court
(Sun, Jun 26, 2011)
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- A listener is angry his doctor asks him to make medical decisions
(Sun, Jun 19, 2011)
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- Limiting Care
(Sun, Jun 12, 2011)
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- Big Problems with Bias
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