News tagged with medical doctor
Nanotechnology holds promise for safer breast implants
A new review published in WIREs Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology explores how nanotechnology may be used to develop safer breast implants as an alternative to silicone rubber, minimizing health complications.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 03, 2011 |
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Study: Docs overtesting for cervical cancer virus
(AP) -- Too many doctors are testing the wrong women, or using the wrong test, for a virus that causes cervical cancer.
Jun 20, 2011 |
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Japan astronaut tweets about space sickness
Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa has tweeted from the International Space Station that he suffers from travel sickness in space.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 15, 2011 |
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Diagnostic errors 'greatest threat to patient safety in hospitals,' claims senior doctor
Diagnostic errors are the most important causes of avoidable harm to patients in hospitals, warns a senior doctor in the British Medical Journal today.
Sep 10, 2010 |
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Research: How doctors rationalize acceptance of industry gifts
Despite heightened awareness about the undue influence that gifts from pharmaceutical companies can have on doctors' prescribing practices, and despite expanding institutional conflict-of-interest policies and state laws ...
Sep 14, 2010 |
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Push for better ways to share e-health records
(AP) -- Think you entered the digital health age when your doctor switched from paper charts to computerized medical records? Think again: An e-chart stored in one doctor's computer too often can't be read by another's across ...
Oct 25, 2010 |
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Tell me where it hurts
(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Connecticut study finds that the way a question is phrased is important when assessing pain.
Nov 10, 2010 |
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Hepling the heart with math
The science of cardiovascular mathematics dates at least to the 1700s, when the pioneering Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler developed a model for fluid dynamics while studying blood flow in arteries.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Dec 15, 2010 |
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Zurich voters keep 'suicide tourism' alive
(AP) -- Voters in Zurich have overwhelmingly rejected calls to ban assisted suicide or to outlaw the practice for nonresidents.
May 15, 2011 |
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Doctor groups set new policy to curb industry sway
(AP) -- No more letting industry help pay for developing medical guidelines. Restrictions on consulting deals. And no more pens with drug company names or other swag at conferences.
Apr 21, 2010 |
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Doctors on Facebook risk compromising doctor-patient relationship
Doctors with a profile on the social networking site Facebook may be compromising the doctor-patient relationship, because they don't deploy sufficient privacy settings, indicates research published online in the Journal of ...
Dec 16, 2010 |
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MDs slash some drug co. ties amid rising scrutiny
(AP) -- A survey shows doctors have sharply cut some financial ties to drug companies, thanks to increased scrutiny about those relationships.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Nov 08, 2010 |
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Google Health to safeguard 'end-of-life' wishes
Google on Thursday invited people to store "end-of-life" wishes at its free online health records management service.
Jul 17, 2009 |
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9 in 10 docs blame lawsuit fears for overtesting
(AP) -- Ninety percent of physicians surveyed said doctors overtest and overtreat to protect themselves from malpractice lawsuits.
Jun 28, 2010 |
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Germany bans secret paternity tests
The German parliament passed a law Friday outlawing secret genetic testing to determine the father of a child along with other privacy protection measures.
May 15, 2009 |
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