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...proximately six months after a series of critical articles abouthospital billing led to a surge in inquiries to the three hospitals. "Citizens are becoming more educated about hospital billing and taking theresponsibility of insuring that their charges are correct," said the principalauthor of the study, Dr...Protecting Breast Feeding From Breast Milk Substitutes
... advocates that governments should incorporate the articles of the code of marketing substitutes for breast milk into national legislation. Secondly, he suggests that monitoring for overt violations should be more systematic in an attempt to deter such promotional activities. The author believes that doctor...Health Risk To "Cigarette Babies" Is Neglected, Duke Scientist Charges
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...he article's first author. His study is one of two articles on memory inthis issue of Science that are based on advanced functional magnetic resonanceimaging (fMRI) techniques that were developed by Buckner and Anders Dale, aresearcher at MGH and another of the co-authors on Wagner' study. "This new t...UCSF Osher Center For Integrative Medicine Symposium
...xploring Chinese Medicine? and numerous scientific articles involvingalternative medical practices. Anne Harrington, PhD, Harvard University, is the author of many books andarticles including the famous, ?The Placebo Effect.? Currently, she isco-director of the Harvard Interfaculty Mind/Brain/Behavior Initia...Hypertension: Getting Pharmacists Involved Can Help
...y of General Internal Medicine, publishes original articles on researchand education in primary care. For information about the Journal, contact: Margo Glen Alderton, (215) 823-4471. ....First Drug Shown Effective For Treating Chronic Forms Of Major Depression
...ue of the Journal of ClinicalPsychiatry, the articles describe rapid improvement in the psychological and social behaviors among 635 depressed patients treated with either sertraline orthe drug imipramine. From increased productivity at work to better social relationships, patients sho...Now Is Time To Design Brain-Saving Drugs Specifically For Children, UCSF Neurologist Says
...sorders. Her editorial introduces five scientific articles on different brain disorders,bound together by new knowledge about how they cause brain injury. Aninternational conference slated for December 8-9 in Washington, D.C. will focuson interventions that might work against one of the most common causes o...American Psychiatric Association Tipsheet - December
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...nded by the National Cancer Institute. The articles are being released in advance of publication because oftheir potential implications for public health. The National Cancer Institutealso is issuing a rare clinical announcement on the studies' findings and thoseof two other unpublished studies. In th......late toemergency medicine and contributed numerous articles to professionalpublications....Fifteenth Anniversary Of The Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study
...linic visit for thepast 15 years. More than 600 articles have been generated from the MACSresearch ranging from the role of CD4 lymphocyte counts and viral load inpredicting AIDS, to average incubation time, to the genetics of AIDS - why somepeople handle the virus so much better than others. Over the yea...Cellular Implants Explored For Brain Trauma
...planted into a strokepatient in Pittsburgh. Recent articles in the Journal of Neurosurgery andJournal of Neurotrauma describe ongoing studies in which Penn researchers arestudying how implanted hNT cells might improve brain function in an injured rat. "We found that cells implanted directly adjacent to the in...Study examines faith healing in a cell phone age
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