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            <title>ACP drafts list of 37 commonly misused screenings and tests</title>
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            <description>Physicians are encouraged to stop ordering tests for nonspecific low back pain and MRIs as the breast cancer screen of choice in average-risk women. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <description>Doctors are still urged to keep an open mind when patients voice concerns about having Morgellons. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <title>National Alzheimer's proposal outlines strategy to improve diagnosis and treatment</title>
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            <description>Health professionals agree that action is needed, but some wonder if the draft goes far enough. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <title>Cyberchondria: the one diagnosis patients miss</title>
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            <description>Physicians say patient anxiety is increasing because of medical information read online, with self-diagnoses of diseases like fibromyalgia and lupus. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <title>American Lung Assn. gives mixed reception to tobacco control efforts</title>
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            <description>An annual report lauds graphic warning labels for cigarettes but takes the federal government to task for squandering &quot;a huge opportunity to help smokers quit.&quot; (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <title>ADHD drug shortage leaves physicians with few choices</title>
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            <description>Primary care doctors are encouraged to discuss with patients the available alternatives and the health impact of abruptly stopping treatment. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <title>Flu strain raises concerns about H5N1 outbreak</title>
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            <description>Researchers developed a type of influenza that can be transmitted easily among mammals. Infectious diseases experts fear the virus could be released to the public. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <title>Disparities in reproductive health care linger</title>
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            <description>Research indicates that declines in the use of women's health services from 2002 to 2008 show gaps in access to care. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <title>Vitamin D's impact on cancer and heart health needs more research</title>
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            <description>A study will help guide the development of a new recommendation by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <title>Recession hitting nation's emergency preparedness abilities</title>
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            <description>Reductions in public health budgets at the federal, state and local levels threaten to further weaken disaster response, a report says. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <title>Unmet social needs worsen health</title>
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            <description>Although many physicians say their patients have health concerns caused by social issues, only 20% feel able to address them, a survey shows. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <title>Increase in diabetes, obesity could offset progress in cardiovascular health</title>
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            <description>A report finds that despite improvements, heart disease kills a significant number of people each year, indicating that more needs to be done. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <title>Texts from physicians can reduce unhealthy drinking by young adults</title>
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            <description>Patients' drinking decreased after weekly text messages that assessed their alcohol use and encouraged them to set drink limits, a new study shows. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <title>Improvements in nation's health stalled after years of progress</title>
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            <description>Economic downturn and rising rates of diabetes and obesity contributed to the halted progress, officials say. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <title>More health care workers vaccinated against the flu</title>
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            <description>CDC data show that 63% were immunized by mid-November, up from 56% at this time in 2010. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <title>Pediatricians advised to talk to teenage boys about sexual health</title>
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            <description>Doctors are likelier to counsel girls on the subject, but discussions are needed for boys, too, a new study says. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <title>Only 28% of HIV patients have condition under control</title>
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            <description>Most Americans with the disease don't think they need ongoing treatment, or don't know they have it. Physicians can help with increased testing. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <description>Pediatricians are more willing to delay the hepatitis B and varicella vaccines than immunizations for Haemophilus influenzae type b and DTaP, a study shows. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <description>ACOG encourages obstetrician-gynecologists to offer them routine care and more specialized procedures such as hormone replacement therapy. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <title>Do you practice in an antibiotic-prescribing hot spot?</title>
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            <description>Prescription rates vary widely by state, with West Virginia residents given about twice as many antibiotics as people in Alaska and Oregon, data show. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <description>A study says girls with a family history of the illness doubled their risk of benign breast disease if they drank regularly as a teenager. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <title>New guidelines issued to thwart skin cancer in fair-skinned people</title>
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            <description>The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends that physicians talk to such patients 10 to 24 years old about minimizing exposure to ultraviolent radiation. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <title>Many physicians unfamiliar with student-athlete heart screening guidelines</title>
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            <description>A survey of Washington state physicians finds that less than half know about American Heart Assn. guidelines, and just 6% follow them. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <description>New AAP guidance encourages pediatricians to know the symptoms of early-stage HIV and openly discuss sexual activity and other STDs with patients. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <description>Recent medical school graduates are less likely to believe that immunizations are safe and effective compared with their older practicing counterparts, a new study shows. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <description>About half express interest in learning more about screening for suspicious lesions. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <description>Obesity increases across all age groups, and gaps in care continue to widen in many areas, the report shows. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <description>Doctors are likely to be divided about whether to follow new guidelines recommending against PSA-based screening in asymptomatic men. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <title>Female smokers at greater risk after a heart attack than other patients</title>
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            <description>Fifty-five percent had a cardiovascular problem within six months of an acute coronary event, a study finds. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <description>Family physicians are urged to screen their patients for mental illness and treat those whose conditions are not severe. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <description>Additional studies are needed before physicians use the information as a predictor. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <description>Discussing weight increases chances that overweight or obese patients will try to shed pounds, but many doctors avoid the issue, a new study says. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <description>This year's 8,200 flu cases are far short of last year's totals, which numbered more than 40,000 by this time. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <description>New AHA guidelines classify five conditions as risk factors that too often hadn't been recognized as such in women. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <description>Researchers identify a four-gene signature that could help spot aggressive versus indolent forms of the disease and reduce harmful overtreatment. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <description>Research showing no difference in survival for early-stage breast cancer patients undergoing one of two types of surgery may change routine care. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <description>Michigan's project designed to prevent catheter-related bloodstream infections also decreases deaths, a new study finds. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <description>The tests rarely help them and may cause harm or lead to unnecessary invasive procedures, the ACP says. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <description>New schedules for children and adolescents target seven of 11 vaccines that guard against 15 diseases. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <description>Millions of young patients lack access to care because physicians who treat them tend to gravitate to urban areas, a new study says. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <description>The goal is to provide officials with the data they need to reduce gaps caused by income, race or ethnicity, gender and other social factors. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <description>A task force recommends screening for women 65 and older and younger women deemed at equal or greater risk for the disease. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <description>Real-time feedback can stop a physician from ordering CT and MRI scans when accepted criteria for the tests aren't present, a new study says. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <description>The Infectious Diseases Society of America's first-ever recommendations for combating the superbug say antibiotics are not always needed. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <description>Catheter-related infections have been the focus of campaigns for prevention checklists. Data will go public this year. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <description>The focus should be on better ways to prevent the disease that kills nearly 14,000 American women annually, a new study says. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <description>Children who live in apartments have cotinine serum levels that are 45% higher than those who live in detached houses, a recent study finds. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <description>It's much less severe than in 2009-10, with influenza-associated deaths and hospitalizations down significantly, the CDC says. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <description>The need is great for a potent, oral antibiotic drug to treat resistant infections, say physicians, who are running out of effective treatments. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <description>A retooled health care system that includes a focus on adolescents is needed, as are coordination of primary and specialty care. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <description>Referrals for mammograms and colonoscopies from a patient's medical home are found to boost follow-through. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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            <description>Researchers are planning phase III trials. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH)</description>
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