Intensive Lifestyle Interventions: Assessing the Impact
The number of adults who are overweight or obese and have type 2 diabetes is increasing rapidly...
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The number of adults who are overweight or obese and have type 2 diabetes is increasing rapidly...
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Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is essential to keeping HIV from replicating and further infecting...
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Discontinuation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) among patients with HIV has been found to lead to...
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Excessive alcohol use adversely affects an estimated 38 million (30%) adults in the United States, but surprisingly, only 1 out 6 say they talk to their doctor, nurse, or healthcare professional about drinking (1). More than 30...
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An orthopedist asked me if I could explain why a couple of papers of his did not generate any feedback. He wasn’t even certain that anyone had read them. He enclosed PDFs for me. Not being an orthopedist, I cannot comment...
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Until recently, the hospital mortality of patients with severe sepsis and septic shock was 50%. In...
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According to the Drug Abuse Warning Network, 2.5 million of the 5.1 million drug-related ED visits...
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Infrapopliteal (IP) arterial disease, also known as “below-the-knee” or tibial disease, is a...
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The American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons...
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Clinical trials have shown that survival rates appear to be similar for patients with early-stage...
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Research indicates that physicians tend to put the needs of their patients before their own....
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The below table depicts the prevalence of a history of coronary heart disease or stroke among...
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals and Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) has...
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In 2013, the CEO of Aetna earned $33.7 million dollars. The average health insurance CEO salary...
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A couple of recent articles about dying by well-known physician-authors attracted a lot of media attention. In October 2014, 57-year-old Ezekiel J. Emanuel, writing in The Atlantic, gave a number of reasons why he hoped he would...
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Forget stitches—there’s a better way to close wounds. In this talk, TED Fellow Joe Landolina...
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“For sheer unadulterated ego, no one is a match for fighter pilots. Except maybe surgeons....
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According to published estimates, about one in 110 babies in the United States is born with...
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The quest for improved outcomes in the treatment of opioid addiction is accelerating on several...
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