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Patti thought you would be interested in this story: Uninsured Largely Unaware Of Benefits Coming From Overhaul http://www.npr.org/blogs/hea...
Dr. Samuel Metz , an anesthesiologist in Oregon, has a letter in the August 27 New York Times arguing for a single payer system in the U.S....
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Steve Schroeder, a friend and medical school classmate I've admired since our first day in anatomy class together, recently published hi...
FRIDAY, Aug. 27 (HealthDay News) -- The brain can be a convenient hiding place for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. That's the finding o...
ovarian cancer: is the fifth most common cancer in women. It is a cancer that forms in tissues of the ovary. There are three types: 1) thos...
It used to be good enough to be smart - good in science; good at figuring things out. When you only have penicillin or sulfa, then just maki...
In Jonathan Moreno's book " Is There an Ethicist in the House? " I came upon these sentences: ...I have been appointed to ad h...
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A recent New York Times article - "A Dashboard for Your Body" - led me to nose around the web to learn more about developments in...
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