'Handwriting challenged' doctors to take penmanship class at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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... public health history with the absorbing personal tale of a doctor who went to extraordinary lengths to demonstrate his ideas. The lecture will take place at 3:00 p.m. at Lipsett Auditorium in the Clinical Center (Building 10) on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland. The lecture will be immediately fol...Vioxx: An unequal partnership between safety and efficacy
...ed clear statements from all parties in this sorry tale about the lessons to be learned. Without more vigilant drug regulation in the future, doctors will continue to be misled and patients' lives will continue to be endangered.'...Vioxx went mostly to patients who didn't need it, Stanford researcher says
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...mal levels of distress. "I think it's an old wives tale that mammograms hurt," says the study's lead author Alice Domar, PhD, Director of the Mind/Body Center for Women's Health at Boston IVF and senior psychologist in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BI...