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100 Awesome IPhone Apps for Med Students and Doctors
Health & Wellness  (tags: iPhone Apps, Medical, Students, Doctors, Health )

Katie
- 11 days ago - onlinenursingprograms.net
New technology makes it easier than ever to keep up with your studies, track patients and manage everything about your medical career. Here are some great apps for the iPhone you can try out to make your life at work.
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Commentary: Why Primary Care Doctors Are Fed Up
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, doctors, illness, treatment, medicine, humans )

Cal
- 75 days ago - cnn.com
Health policy experts agree that any reform in our health care system must include a well-educated, caring primary care doctor who is able to manage the health of his or her patients with an eye to using resources optimally to keep costs down.
10 comments
Many Docs Off Mark on Off-Label Scripts
Health & Wellness  (tags: doctors, wrong, medication, death, risks )

Lone
- 76 days ago - suntimes.com
Doctors often prescribe drugs "off-label" to treat conditions for which they're not approved. But a new study suggests that some off-label prescribing may be driven by doctors' mistaken belief that certain drugs are actually approved by the federal
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Survey Finds High Fees Common in Medical Care
Health & Wellness  (tags: USA, healthcare, healthcare insurance, healthcare fees, doctors, insurance, varying health costs )

Thankful
- 88 days ago - nytimes.com
A patient in Illinois was charged $12,712 for cataract surgery. Medicare pays $675 for the same procedure. In California, a patient was charged $20,120 for a knee operation that Medicare pays $584 for. And a New Jersey patient was charged $72,000 for a...
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Health Care Reform: 450,000 Doctors Can't Be Wrong   video
Health & Wellness  (tags: health care, health, doctors, physicians, preventive care, reform, universal health care, President Barack Obama, Blue Dog Democrats, AAFP, insurance, public option, Robert Greenwald, heal, health care now )

Blue
- 100 days ago - youtube.com
The U.S. has a catastrophically fragmented health care system that provides incentives for sick care instead of prevention. The system is in dire need of reform -- reform to save lives, to save families and money for patients and the health care system.
106 comments
IMSS, the Largest Social Security Institution in Latin America, MEXICO
Health & Wellness  (tags: Mexico, Social Security, humans, hospitals, doctors, great, cancer, ethics, family, health, healthcare, interesting, investigation, protection, safety, science, society, treatment )

Teresa
- 167 days ago - imss.gob.mx
The IMSS is the largest social security institution in Latin America, it is a fundamental pillar of the individual and collective wellbeing of the Mexican society and a main redistributing element of Mexico's richness; it is, doubtlessly,
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The Rick Simpson Story: Run From the Cure Pt 2   video
Health & Wellness  (tags: hemp oil, marihuana, marijuana, cancer, treatment, doctors, AlternativeMed, death, disease, drugs, ethics, government, health, humans, interesting, news, prevention, science, society, treatment )

Teresa
- 168 days ago - youtube.com
great video, medical uses of cannabis this is the truth and it needs to be told, come on spread the word
9 comments
Vermont Acts to Make Drug Makers' Gifts Public
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, government, Vermont legislature, drug makers, doctors, dishonesty, corruption, cover-up, medicine )

Dee
- 173 days ago - nytimes.com
Cracking down on medical industry payments to doctors, the Vermont legislature has passed a law requiring drug and device makers to publicly disclose all money given to physicians and other health care providers, naming names and listing dollar amounts.
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May 12, CFS/ME and Fibromyalgia Awareness Day- What's It Like to Survive With ME/CFS and FM
Health & Wellness  (tags: may 12, ME/CFS, FM, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, chronic fatigue syndrome, doctors, antidepressants, pdfs, mefmactinnetwork, fibromyalgia, neurological, healthcare, medicine, research, health, society, risks, illness, humans, government, drugs, ethics )

Cheryl Su
- 179 days ago - cherylspeaksout.blogspot.com
`So what's it like to live, or exist for many of us with CFS/ME and FM. I have since 1991, I was diagnosed by an Infectious Disease Specialist, Dr. Irving Salit, and had to under go, a battery of tests to rule everything else out. ME/CFS and FM varies fro
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Need Surgery? Do Your Hospital Homework!
Health & Wellness  (tags: health, healthcare, protection, research, hospitals, doctors, surgery, risks, warning, illness )

Dee
- 199 days ago - cbn.com
Click the player to watch the report from CBN News Medical Reporter Lorie Johnson followed by comments from Pat Robertson.
1 comment
Whooping Cough Epidemic Fears - Australia
Health & Wellness  (tags: australia, queensland, victoria, nsw, whooping cough, epidemic, health, medical, doctors )

Chrissy
- 240 days ago - brisbanetimes.com.au
Queensland is due for a whooping cough epidemic similar to those sweeping through NSW and Victoria medical experts have warned. Christine Selvey, Queensland Health's communicable disease branch senior director, said there were 2254 cases of whooping cough
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Competing Views - Universal Health Care or Goverment Protected Insurance?
Health & Wellness  (tags: americans, doctors, disease, government, healthcare, medicine, prevention, protection, research, safety, science, society )

Kit
- 244 days ago - truthout.org
We all know that the insurance industry executives and the company shareholders want to make lots of money, but maybe they should try to find an industry where they can compete. If the government can provide health insurance better and cheaper...........
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Most Hospital Patients Unable to Identify Their Physicians, Survey Finds
Health & Wellness  (tags: illness, healthcare, study, hospitals, doctors, identify )

Lynne
- 281 days ago - nytimes.com
Hospital patients are rarely able to identify their doctors by name or to describe their roles in the patients' care, a new survey has found.
2 comments
The Underlying Cause of Suicides & Homicides With SSRI Antidepressants
Health & Wellness  (tags: SSRI's KILL and damage, antidepressants, big pharma, money, doctors, eithics, bribes, deaths, adverse drug reactions, interns, doctors, healthcare, humans, children )

Cheryl Su
- 288 days ago - medicationsense.com
Reports of unusual, severe reactions with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressant drugs (SSRIs) emerged soon after the first SSRI, Prozac, was introduced in 1988. One of my own patients, a woman with a mild depressive disorder and no history
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Nigeria Buys Baby Poison Antidote - Nigeria/Africa
Health & Wellness  (tags: nigeria, africa, babies, deaths, teething, medicine, doctors, antidote, kidney failure )

Chrissy
- 338 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Nigerian medical authorities are flying in 100 doses of an antidote to try and stem the deaths of babies poisoned by a contaminated teething syrup. The number of children who have died from kidney failure after being given the tainted paracetamol-based
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