Are Farmers Being Deliberately Misled About Badger Culls?: Politicians, farmers leaders, and particularly veterinarians, should know better. (picture from Wikipedia)
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement and Implications for Access to Essential Medicines: This Viewpoint discusses the importance of patent protection and its role in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement. Jing Luo. Aaron S. Kesselheim. JAMA.
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The 'Good Right' isn't caring. It just knows what's good for you: Each term, my 12-year-old daughter’s class has a “topic”. The topics display the interests of her teachers. Last term it was “poverty in our back yard”. This term they are lamenting the plight of girls around the world who do...
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Dabigatran-Reversal Agent Price Set: By Joe Elia
Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, and Jaye Elizabeth Hefner, MD
Idarucizumab (Praxbind), an agent … NEJM Journal Watch.
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UN scientist Jacquie McGlade raps UK over renewables - BBC News: The UK government's cuts in support for renewable energy are criticised by the UN's chief environment scientist, Prof Jacquie McGlade.
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Social media usage at critical care conferences helps broaden reach: Social media is a tool that groups have adopted to help educate, market, and promote causes or topics to a broad audience. Researchers examined trends in social media use at pulmonary and critical care conferences and found substantial...
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Impact of proton pump inhibitor treatment on gastrointestinal bleeding associated with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug use among post-myocardial infarction patients taking antithrombotics: nationwide study Anne-Marie Schjerning Olsen. Jesper Lindhardsen. Gunnar H Gislason. Patricia McGettigan. Mark...
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Retail clinics best used as backup to a patient's primary care physician: The American College of Physicians (ACP) today said that retail health clinics - now commonly present in drugstores and/or big box retailers - are best used as a backup alternative to a patient's primary care physician for the...
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Half of Britons believe weekend hospital admissions 'more dangerous': Amid junior doctor contract row, Observer/Opinium poll shows 35% of adults have delayed seeking medical help at weekend
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How to Increase Conference Attendance - e-Learning Feeds: For associations, conferences represent a major source of potential revenue. To best realize that revenue, your conference not only has to attract attendee
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Internet interventions interest informed melanoma patients: (HealthDay)—The melanoma patients receptive to an Internet-delivered behavioral intervention to promote skin self-examination (SSE) and sun protection behaviors may already have higher knowledge of melanoma signs, according to a research letter...
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Shadowing a junior doctor was a humbling tour of the NHS frontline | Heidi Alexander: When I speak at the rally opposing Jeremy Hunt’s pernicious new contract in London today, I know I’ll be on the right side
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UK's oldest person breaks hip replacement record at 112: Gladys Hooper from Isle of Wight is understood to have eclipsed previous record of John Randall, who had operation aged 102
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Doctors ask Cabinet Office to investigate Jeremy Hunt's patient deaths comments: Medics say health secretary breached ministerial code of conduct with claim that 11,000 patients a year die after being admitted to hospital at weekends
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"Palm Pistol .38 SPL defensive gun, designed for people with osteo and rheumatoid arthritis, and other degenerative joint and muscular conditions, is now released for sale." ... No. Just no.
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A report into NHS staffing levels has been delayed after talks with Westminster: The health watchdog NICE ditched plans to make public its research on safe nurse staffing levels minutes after an email exchange between the organisation’s chief executive and Jeremy Hunt’s office, it has emerged. Experts...
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Journal Resuscitation publishes updated European Resuscitation Council guidelines: Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced the publication of the 2015 European Resuscitation Council guidelines, in the latest issue of journal...
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How Dietary Supplement Complications Present in the Emergency Department: By Joe Elia
Edited by Susan Sadoughi, MD, and Richard Saitz, MD, MPH, FACP, FASAM
Dietary supplements — herbals, vitamins, and minerals — account for some 23,000 emergency visits annually in the U.S., according to an analysis...
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Computers match doctors in predicting patient discharges: A computer can do as good a job of predicting how many patients will be discharged from a hospital unit on a given day as doctors and nurses can, according to new research from the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business and...
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Early Physical Therapy vs Usual Care in Patients With Recent-Onset Low Back Pain: A Randomized Clinical Trial: This randomized trial evaluates whether early physical therapy is more effective than usual care for improving disability in patients with recent-onset low back pain. Julie M. Fritz. John S....
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