Saturday, August 15, 2015

“Childhood obesity can truly be called a ‘new morbidity’."

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What can parents do about childhood obesity? Even more ominously, according to lead researcher, Associate Professor Matt Sabin, is t...

Beyond limitations: Improving how we handle uncertainty in health professions education research

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Med Teach.  2015 Aug 14:1-8. [Epub ahead of print] Beyond limitations: Improving how we handle uncertainty in health professions educatio...
Friday, August 14, 2015

"... there is reason to be skeptical of FDA regulations concerning effectiveness."

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Using the FDA as a Club against Competitors By  Ira Brodsky "Few people would deny that there is a role for federal regulations ...

"... the true alternative to nudging: teaching people to become risk savvy."

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Rev Philos Psychol.  2015;6(3):361-383. On the Supposed Evidence for Libertarian  Paternalism . Gigerenzer G 1 . Author information ...

"For the many medical decisions now deemed preference-sensitive, the interplay of volition and willingness to assume risk could profoundly affect public health."

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N Engl J Med.  2015 Aug 13;373(7):589-92. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp1508418. The  Paternalism  Preference--Choosing Unshared Decision Making. R...

Mesothelioma treatment: Are we on target?

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J Adv Res.  2015 May;6(3):319-30. doi: 10.1016/j.jare.2014.11.012. Epub 2014 Dec 1. Mesothelioma  treatment: Are we on target? A review. ...
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Work still to be done: "During December 2009-September 2013, the time between the suspicion of cancer on chest X-ray to treatment was 64 days. During October 2013-March 2014, the nurse navigator helped reduce that timespan to 45 days."

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J Community Support Oncol.  2015 Jun;13(6):219-224. doi: 10.12788/jcso.0141. Impact of nurse navigation on timeliness of diagnostic medic...

Molecular Targeted Intervention for Pancreatic Cancer

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Cancers (Basel).  2015 Aug 10;7(3):1499-542. doi: 10.3390/cancers7030850. Molecular Targeted Intervention for Pancreatic Cancer. Mohamm...

Twitter Social Media is an Effective Tool for Breast Cancer Patient Education and Support: Patient-Reported Outcomes by Survey

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J Med Internet Res.  2015 Jul 30;17(7):e188. doi: 10.2196/jmir.4721. Twitter  Social Media is an Effective Tool for Breast Cancer Patient...

From Shiraz U: The main indicators for Iranian hospital ethical accreditation

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J Adv Med Educ Prof.  2015 Jul;3(3):117-32. The main indicators for Iranian hospital ethical accreditation. Enjoo SA 1 ,  Amini M 2 ,  ...

The Rationalization of Unethical Research

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Am J Public Health.  2015 Aug 13:e1-e8. [Epub ahead of print] The Rationalization of Unethical Research: Revisionist Accounts of the Tusk...

How well do whole exome sequencing results correlate with medical findings? A study of 89 Mayo Clinic Biobank samples

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Front Genet.  2015 Jul 24;6:244. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2015.00244. eCollection 2015. How well do whole exome sequencing results correlate wi...

Study Finds Hospital Readmissions Greatly Underestimated

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Study Finds Readmissions Greatly Underestimated 90 Days Tells Better Story Than 30 When Tracking Outcomes by Christina Frangou Hospit...

The Processing of Surgical Specimens With Forensic Evidence: Lessons Learned From the Boston Marathon Bombings

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Cathryn J. Byrne-Dugan, Terra A. Cederroth, Anita Deshpande, and Daniel G. Remick ( 2015 ) The Processing of Surgical Specimens With Forens...

"Lots of people do not even know pathologists are physicians."

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Arch Pathol Lab Med.  2014 Aug;138(8):1000-1. doi: 10.5858/arpa.2014-0071-ED. Social media: pathologists' force multiplier. Allen T...
Tuesday, August 11, 2015

A dance movement therapy group for depressed adult patients in a psychiatric outpatient clinic: effects of the treatment

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Front Psychol.  2015 Jul 10;6:980. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00980. eCollection 2015. A  dance  movement therapy group for depressed adult ...

No surprise to me: Religion and cancer: "...meta-analysis suggest that greater religion/spirituality is associated with better patient-reported physical health."

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Cancer.  2015 Aug 10. doi: 10.1002/cncr.29353. [Epub ahead of print] Religion, spirituality, and physical health in cancer patients: A me...

"Is overeating more addictive than crack cocaine?...Once extreme overeating begins, it appears to be almost impossible to stop."

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Obesity is an incurable disease. So why is the government intent on punishing sufferers? " Is overeating more addictive than c...

"Given that Southeasterners are receptive to increased taxation..."

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Am J Health Behav.  2015 Sep;39(5):721-31. doi: 10.5993/AJHB.39.5.13. Reactions to Cigarette Taxes and Related Messaging: Is the South Di...