ACP and ACP Foundation launch 3-year effort to improve diabetes care
...The initiative will develop a self-management tool kit to help patients become working partners with their health care providers in diabetes care. The patient materials will include information for vulnerable populations such as the elderly, racial and ethnic minorities, non-English speakers, and those w...New methods offer alternatives for patients undergoing obesity surgery
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... Egenix Inc to co-develop a semen-based diagnostic kit for prostate cancer based on the known proprietary Human Carcinoma Antigen (HCA). The new non-invasive test, once developed, would offer significant advantages over the current test, and would reduce unnecessary invasive examinations as well as need...NFL team physicians to host conference on football injury prevention and conditioning
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