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Feed aggregatorJudging genetic risks: Physicians often caught between what patients want and what science offers
As genetic testing finds its way into routine clinical practice, the path to personalized medicine could leave physicians susceptible to expanded liability risks.
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Med schools report record enrollments, more minorities
First-year class size has grown each year of the past decade, but concerns about future physician shortages remain.
Categories: Profession
California law mandates discussing end-of-life options
Physicians must talk about hospice, at the request of dying patients, but they are not required to discuss palliative sedation or refusal of food and water.
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GOP looks to serve as check on Obama, Democrats (AP)
AP - A top House Republican says there is a willingness to try to work with President-elect Obama to get things done.
Categories: Health News
Study: Wider cholesterol drug use may save lives (AP)
AP - People with low cholesterol and no big risk for heart disease dramatically lowered their chances of dying or having a heart attack if they took the cholesterol pill Crestor, a large study found.
Categories: Health News
Lack of Potassium Linked to High Blood Pressure (HealthDay)
HealthDay - SUNDAY, Nov. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Consuming too little potassium
may be as big a risk factor for high blood pressure as eating too much
sodium, especially for blacks, new research says.
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Statin Might Help More People Fight Heart Disease Than Thought (HealthDay)
HealthDay - SUNDAY, Nov. 9 (HealthDay News) -- A widely used
cholesterol-lowering drug appears to protect against heart attacks, stroke
and other adverse outcomes in people who do not have high
cholesterol.
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AstraZeneca's Crestor cuts death, heart attack (Reuters)
Reuters - AstraZeneca's cholesterol fighter Crestor dramatically cut deaths, heart attacks and strokes in patients with healthy cholesterol levels but who had high levels of a protein associated with heart disease, researchers said on Sunday.
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Monks brawl before religious ceremony
An unusual sight greeted Jerusalem police as they entered one of Christianity's holiest sites Sunday morning: dozens of monks punching and kicking each other in a massive brawl.
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Bali bombers buried after execution
The bodies of the men executed for the deadly 2002 bombings of two nightclubs in Bali, Indonesia, returned to their villages Sunday, hours after they were put to death by firing squad.
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Freed Canadian reporter: I was kept in cave
A Canadian journalist, who was freed Saturday after a month in captivity, said her abductors kept her in an underground cave but didn't mistreat her.
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Police detain owner of collapsed Haiti school
Authorities have detained the owner of a Haitian school that collapsed on Friday, killing at least 84 students, sources said.
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Despite failures, search for anti-obesity drugs still looks golden (AFP)
AFP - Designers of anti-obesity drugs have suffered three major setbacks, but the potential reward from treating the world's fat epidemic is so great that their quest is unlikely to be deterred.
Categories: Health News
Health Highlights: Nov. 8, 2008 (HealthDay)
HealthDay - Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments,
compiled by editors of HealthDay:
Categories: Health News
Overnight Dialysis Saves Lives: Study (HealthDay)
HealthDay - FRIDAY, Nov. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Dialysis for eight hours a
night, three times a week, reduced the risk of death for kidney patients
by nearly 80 percent, compared to conventional, four-hour dialysis three
times a week, a new study found.
Categories: Health News
Written Instructions Cut Bleeding Risk for Blood Thinner Use (HealthDay)
HealthDay - SATURDAY, Nov. 8 (HealthDay News) -- Giving patients written and
verbal instructions on proper use of the blood thinner warfarin
significantly reduces the risk of serious gastrointestinal and brain
bleeding problems, according to a University of Pennsylvania School of
Medicine study.
Categories: Health News
NY family opposes end to care for brain-dead boy (AP)
AP - A Washington hospital has asked a judge for permission to stop treating a brain-dead 12-year-old cancer patient, even though his ultra-religious New York parents want to keep him on life support.
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