Friday, July 13, 2018

Billions. With a B. "Though the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says they have been unable to find asbestos in any of the talcum powder they reviewed..." #LitigationNation

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Johnson & Johnson Ordered To Pay Billions In Baby Powder Lawsuit
Monday, July 9, 2018

"Politically, adverse lifestyle choices seem to forfeit the right to healthcare."

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Our treatment of patients with severe obesity is unethical – but why? Bariatric surgery is life-saving and cost-effective but due to perv...
Friday, July 6, 2018

"Although Gulag science did not apparently possess the lethal character of Nazi medicine, neither was this work entirely benign."

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Bull Hist Med.  2016;90(3):363-393. Medical Research in Stalin's Gulag. Alexopoulos G . Abstract Recently declassified Gulag ...

Biomarkers for ALK and ROS1 in Lung Cancer: Immunohistochemistry and Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization

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Peter P. Luk ,  Christina I. Selinger ,  Annabelle Mahar , and  Wendy A. Cooper  (2018) Biomarkers for ALK and ROS1 in Lung Cancer: Immunoh...
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How Health Care Fails Women

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How Health Care Fails Women Dismissed symptoms, misdiagnoses, and exclusion from clinical trials put female patients at risk. Here, the ...

#ButCommunism

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“Every Day I Wake Up in a Strange Land”: Remembering the Russian Poet Naum Korzhavin "Three years later, Korzhavin, a student at...

How the media covers obesity in America

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How the media covers obesity in America Comparing the coverage of two mainstream newspapers to two ethnic newspapers in Philadelphia,...

"Only 35% of staff reported a good understanding of the Armed Forces Covenant and their responsibilities to uphold it."

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Pe rspect Public Health.  2018 Jul 1:1757913918785650. doi: 10.1177/1757913918785650. [Epub ahead of print] Transition from service to ci...

Is Obesity a Disease or a Choice?

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Is Obesity a Disease or a Choice? "In 2013, the American Medical Association (AMA)  declared obesity a disease  that requires a ...
Thursday, July 5, 2018

"...sugar is scary."

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So sweet but sugar is scary "Although, there is no hard and fast rule for daily intake, one must always opt for options with less su...

"Stereotypes about many groups fall along two dimensions, one relating to agency/competence and the other morality/warmth..."

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Br J Soc Psychol.  2018 Jun 29. doi: 10.1111/bjso.12262. [Epub ahead of print] Stereotype content and  morality : How competence and warm...

"Once initiated, the division of theory and praxis is self-replicating, carving disciplines into ever narrower slivers and leading to the absurd situation within disciplines of different minibranches holding one another in contempt."

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The ‘Two Cultures’ Fallacy Stop pitting science and the humanities against each other "But this tendency to downgrade 'theor...

Oh, the Places We'll Go: Patient-Reported Outcomes and Electronic Health Records

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Patient.  2018 Jul 2. doi: 10.1007/s40271-018-0321-9. [Epub ahead of print] Oh, the Places We'll Go: Patient-Reported Outcomes and El...

Child obesity could be influenced by mom’s lifestyle habits: Study

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Child obesity could be influenced by mom’s lifestyle habits: Study "Their findings, published in the British Medical Journal, sugg...
Wednesday, July 4, 2018

Cadbury’s Easter Bunny Breaks Britain’s New ‘Junk Food’ Rules

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Cadbury’s Easter Bunny Breaks Britain’s New ‘Junk Food’ Rules “It’s censorship of children and adults in order to protect children from...

Abandoned on Bataan #4thOfJuly #GreatestGeneration #GodBlessAmerica #LetFreedomRing

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Abandoned on Bataan: One Man's Story of Survival   "On that Christmas Day we did a brave, and perhaps foolish thing.  One of ...
Monday, July 2, 2018

California Enacts Nation’s Strictest Data Privacy Law

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California Enacts Nation’s Strictest Data Privacy Law "The Golden State is adopting a new online privacy law that will control how...
Saturday, June 30, 2018

California, home of the first soda tax, agrees to ban them

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California, home of the first soda tax, agrees to ban them "The law represents a significant, if long-anticipated, shift among the n...

#BeforeCellPhones #DiscoLives

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Earth, Wind & Fire - Boogie Wonderland

Conflicting duties and restitution of the trusting relationship

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J Med Ethics.  2018 Jun 15. pii: medethics-2017-104682. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2017-104682. [Epub ahead of print] Conflicting duties and ...

From @marenwhymdmd and me: Let's Have a Tweetup: The Case for Using Twitter Professionally

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Arch Pathol Lab Med.  2016 Sep;140(9):956-7. doi: 10.5858/arpa.2016-0172-SA. Epub 2016 May 19. Let's Have a Tweetup: The Case for Usi...

CDC: Cancers Linked To Obesity Account For 40 Percent Of All US Cancer Cases

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CDC: Cancers Linked To Obesity Account For 40 Percent Of All US Cancer Cases WASHINGTON — When it comes to obesity, studies often fo...
Friday, June 29, 2018

Jamiroquai - Corner of the Earth

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Jamiroquai - Corner of the Earth

Moving from the HIV Organ Policy Equity Act to HIV Organ Policy Equity in action: changing practice and challenging stigma

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Curr Opin Organ Transplant.  2018 Apr;23(2):271-278. doi: 10.1097/MOT.0000000000000510. Moving from the HIV Organ Policy Equity Act to HI...
Sunday, June 24, 2018

Childhood Obesity To Be Tackled By The British Government With New Stricter Measures

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Childhood Obesity To Be Tackled By The British Government With New Stricter Measures "'It is our job to empower parents to mak...

Chocolate milk for recovery from exercise: a systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled clinical trials

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Eur J Clin Nutr.  2018 Jun 19. doi: 10.1038/s41430-018-0187-x. [Epub ahead of print] Chocolate milk for recovery from exercise: a systema...

Claiming agency in later life in reforming China

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Ageing Soc.  2017 Nov;37(10):2074-2102. doi: 10.1017/S0144686X16000830. Epub 2016 Aug 12. It was all planned … now what? Claiming agency ...

Religious Involvement and Marijuana Use for Medical and Recreational Purposes

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J Drug Issues.  2018 Jul;48(3):421-434. doi: 10.1177/0022042618770393. Epub 2018 Apr 21. Religious Involvement and Marijuana Use for Medi...

Rationales for expanding minority physician representation in the workforce

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Med Educ.  2018 Jun 22. doi: 10.1111/medu.13618. [Epub ahead of print] Rationales for expanding minority physician representation in the ...