Preventive Medicine

Douglas Kamerow and Steven Woolf: Debunking myths of breast screening

DOUGLAS KAMEROW and STEVEN WOOLF Controversy continues over the mammography guidelines released Monday by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. As family physicians and preventive medicine specialists who have worked with...

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Promise of Cash Prompts Smokers to Quit

Financial incentives tripled rates of cessation, study found By Serena Gordon HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Feb. 11 (HealthDay News) -- The study, published in the Feb. 12 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, included...

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Today's Financial Institutions And Tomorrow's Monetary Order: Jean-Claude Trichet, President...

Ladies and Gentlemen, It is always a pleasure to join you at the annual Frankfurt European Banking Congress. Euro area governments for their part have committed 26% of GDP to supporting the financial sector. The magnitude of...

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Why you shouldn't fear the new mammogram guidelines

Parsing the mammogram guidelines By Douglas Kamerow and Steven Woolf Controversy continues over the mammography guidelines released Monday by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. As family physicians and preventive medicine...

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Diuretics Still Best Treatment for High Blood Pressure

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 18 (HealthDay News) -- The thiazide-type diuretic chlorthalidone outshone three other treatments -- a calcium channel blocker, an ACE inhibitor and an alpha-receptor blocker -- in most areas, especially in...

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Nutra Pharma Introduces Chronic Pain Reliever, Nyloxin OTC, for International Distribution

Nutra Pharma has introduced Nyloxin OTC, an over-the-counter pain reliever, that will be marketed and sold through international distribution channels alongside the Company's prescription pain reliever, Nyloxin Rx. Plantation,...

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U.S. Preventive Medicine Introduces The Prevention Score(TM)

DALLAS and JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Nov. 19 /- U.S. Preventive Medicine, Inc. ( www.USPreventiveMedicine.com ) Chairman and CEO Christopher T. Fey today announced the national launch of the Prevention Score((SM)), the country's...

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Reflux esophagitis due to immune reaction, not acute acid burn

DALLAS Nov. 19, 2009 Contrary to current thinking, a condition called gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) might not develop as a direct result of acidic digestive juices burning the esophagus, UT Southwestern Medical Center...

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On the trail of a vaccine for Lyme disease: Yale researchers target tick saliva

New Haven, Conn. A protein found in the saliva of ticks helps protect mice from developing Lyme disease, Yale researchers have discovered. The findings, published in the November 19 issue of Cell Host & Microbe , may spur...

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Renal Denervation as a Therapeutic Approach for Hypertension: Novel Implications for an Old...

in Therapeutics (H.K.), Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Department of Cardiology (R.W.), St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Heart...

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