Patients glean a lot of medical information from the Internet, so you may want to direct them to trustworthy sources.
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Cervical cancer screening information needs to be included into post-HIV testing counseling for women in Enugu, southeastern Nigeria.
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The CDC has issued updated guidelines for the use of nucleic acid amplification tests in the diagnosis of tuberculosis. Medscape Medical News
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Manhattan Research, a global pharmaceutical and healthcare market research company, releases its latest physician analysis titled “Physician Online Communities: Physician Social Networking and the New Online Opinion Leaders” as part of the Taking the Pulse® physician market research and strategic advisory service.
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Adrian Sanders MP (Lib Dem, Torbay) introduced a parliamentary debate on 14 January about the reimbursement regime for community pharmacists. NPA Chief Executive, John Turk, comments: “The Government recently published a seminal White Paper, which sets out a vision for unlocking the potential of the community pharmacy sector in England.
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A review article which is published in the current issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics indicates that psychological interventions may help premenstrual syndrome. A group of canadian investigators conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to determine the efficacy of psychological interventions for premenstrual syndrome.
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Remuda Ranch Programs for Eating and Anxiety Disorders (http://www.remudaranch.com), the nation’s leading eating disorder treatment center, reports there’s a new pressure to look perfect while pregnant. “With the media giving so much focus to pregnant celebrities, there’s an increased pressure to look perfect and thin during pregnancy,” [...]
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When it comes to controlling hunger urges, a groundbreaking brain-imaging study from the US suggests that men’s brains are better able to do so, possibly explaining gender differences in rates of binge eating and obesity and why women find it harder to lose weight.
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Intercell AG has retained Inclinix, Inc., to recruit volunteers for their Phase III clinical trial of a Travelers’ Diarrhea (TD) vaccine system. The TD vaccine is in the form of a skin patch — a novel method for delivering a vaccine that is especially compelling because it is needle-free.
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Latest surveillance data coming through the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) from virologists and clinicians indicates that the influenza A(H3N2) virus is the predominant strain in Europe so far this season. Based on the data published by ECDC Roche confirms that the oral antiviral Tamiflu (oseltamivir) is fully active against influenza A(H3N2) [...]
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