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NHS Confederation Comment On Mixed-sex Wards, UK
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Source: Public Health News From Medical News Today - December 31, 2006 Source Type: news
The Long-term Treatment of Bipolar Disorder: Managing the Maintenance Phase
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Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines - December 29, 2006 Source Type: news
Grade Your Payers: The AAFP-FPM Survey of Physicians' Experiences With Third-Party Payers
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Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines - December 29, 2006 Source Type: news
Pre-School Obesity Risk In US Poor Is Highest For Hispanic Toddlers
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Source: Public Health News From Medical News Today - December 29, 2006 Source Type: news
What is a fasciotomy?
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Source: NLH Question Answering Service - December 29, 2006 Source Type: news
FAST-FOOD FALLOUT?: Childhood kidney stones on the rise
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Source: Life - December 29, 2006 Source Type: news
ACAAI 2006: Update on Allergic Diseases
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Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines - December 28, 2006 Source Type: news
Advances With Inhaled Corticosteroids: Improving Systemic Effects?
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Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines - December 28, 2006 Source Type: news
ACAAI 2006: Asthma and Allergic Rhinitis
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Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines - December 28, 2006 Source Type: news
Maximizing Asthma Control
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Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines - December 28, 2006 Source Type: news
Novel Therapies for Asthma
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Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines - December 28, 2006 Source Type: news
Is atorvastatin and fenofibrate more effective and/or safer than the combination of simvastatin and fenofibrate to treat a mixed hyperlipidaemia insulin-treated type 2 diabetic patient?
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Source: NLH Question Answering Service - December 28, 2006 Source Type: news
T Cells in the Pathogenesis and Prevention of Asthma
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Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines - December 28, 2006 Source Type: news
Henry Ford Health System: New And Strict Vendor Policies Begin Jan. 1
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Source: Public Health News From Medical News Today - December 28, 2006 Source Type: news
Health Survey for England - updating of trend tables to...
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Source: PCCAS: Full newsfeed - December 28, 2006 Source Type: news
Mortality Statistics: Cause (Series DH2 No.32)
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Source: PCCAS: Full newsfeed - December 28, 2006 Source Type: news
Cancer Registration Statistics England 2004 - First Release
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Source: PCCAS: Full newsfeed - December 28, 2006 Source Type: news
Personal Social Services Survey of Home Care Users in...
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Source: PCCAS: Full newsfeed - December 28, 2006 Source Type: news
Parkinson's disease: diagnosis and treatment.
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Source: Am Fam Physician - December 27, 2006 Source Type: news
Newer agents for the management of overactive bladder.
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Source: Am Fam Physician - December 27, 2006 Source Type: news
Health care and insurance issues for transgender persons.
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Source: Am Fam Physician - December 27, 2006 Source Type: news
Are there any effective treatments for concha bullosa?
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Source: NLH Question Answering Service - December 27, 2006 Source Type: news
Antimicrobial Resistance: Waking Up to the Challenge
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Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines - December 27, 2006 Source Type: news
Case Study on Linear Focal Elastosis
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Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines - December 27, 2006 Source Type: news
December 27, 2006: In the News
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Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines - December 27, 2006 Source Type: news
December 26, 2006: In the News
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Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines - December 26, 2006 Source Type: news
Accurate, Noninvasive Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease Is Possible
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Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines - December 26, 2006 Source Type: news
EX-ETIQUETTE | JANN BLACKSTONE-FORD AND SHARYL JUPE: Why no photo of current wife? Poll offers interesting answers
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Source: Life - December 26, 2006 Source Type: news
GET FIT | MACHINE SQUAT: Do squats and your butt will thank you
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Source: Life - December 26, 2006 Source Type: news
MED WATCH | JODI MAILANDER FARRELL
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Source: Life - December 26, 2006 Source Type: news
PARENT TO PARENT: Is that runny nose a cold, an allergy, or sinusitus?
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Source: Life - December 26, 2006 Source Type: news
Weight Loss May Cut Prostate Cancer Risk
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Source: MedicineNet Mens Health General - December 26, 2006 Source Type: news
Canada: how to improve your clinical prevention activities.
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Source: Famly Medicine - December 24, 2006 Source Type: news
A proposal to address the curriculum for the m-4 medical student.
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Source: Famly Medicine - December 24, 2006 Source Type: news
Making it personal; mentoring future family docs.
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Source: Famly Medicine - December 24, 2006 Source Type: news
Youth-parent communication.
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Source: Famly Medicine - December 24, 2006 Source Type: news
Presbyterian gets OK for Mint Hill hospital
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Source: Life - December 23, 2006 Source Type: news
NHS Direct available on Freeview digital television
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Source: PCCAS: Full newsfeed - December 22, 2006 Source Type: news
Practice based commissioning: implementation monitoring,...
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Source: PCCAS: Full newsfeed - December 22, 2006 Source Type: news
Bowel cancer screening: the facts
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Source: PCCAS: Full newsfeed - December 22, 2006 Source Type: news
Taming the Sample Closet
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Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines - December 22, 2006 Source Type: news
A Little Boy With a Big Heart
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Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines - December 22, 2006 Source Type: news
Fury as egg donation licence thrown open in UK first
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Source: the Mail online | Women - December 22, 2006 Source Type: news
Triplets for the mother with two wombs
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Source: the Mail online | Women - December 22, 2006 Source Type: news
TREATING A CULTURAL DIVIDE: Hospital offers outreach to Latinos
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Source: Life - December 22, 2006 Source Type: news
Designing a mentoring progarm (Carman Whiting MD)
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Source: Family Medicine Digital Resources Library (FMDRL) Recently Uploaded - December 22, 2006 Source Type: news
statistics on mentoring (Carman Whiting MD)
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Source: Family Medicine Digital Resources Library (FMDRL) Recently Uploaded - December 22, 2006 Source Type: news
Conference Coverage: Selected Presentations From the 20th Annual Practical Approaches to the Treatment of Obesity; June 22-24, 2006
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Source: Medscape PublicHealth Headlines - December 21, 2006 Source Type: news
Brief Report: Respiratory Syncytial Virus Activity- United States, 2005-2006
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Source: Medscape PublicHealth Headlines - December 21, 2006 Source Type: news
Inflammation in Chronic Kidney Disease: Potential Causes and Possible Therapies
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Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines - December 21, 2006 Source Type: news
The Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Pattern Study (DOPPS): 10 Years Later
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Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines - December 21, 2006 Source Type: news
Ten Biomarkers Moderately Contribute to Predicting Future Cardiac Events
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Source: Medscape PublicHealth Headlines - December 21, 2006 Source Type: news
Treatment of Anemia in Chronic Kidney Disease: Past Present, Future
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Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines - December 21, 2006 Source Type: news
SCIENCE DIGEST: Obesity is linked to levels of bacteria
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Source: Life - December 21, 2006 Source Type: news
Interventions for the treatment, management and...
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Source: PCCAS: Full newsfeed - December 21, 2006 Source Type: news
Diagnosing chronic fatigue
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Source: PCCAS: Full newsfeed - December 21, 2006 Source Type: news
Group Identity, Self-Disclosure, and the Self-Stigma of Mental Illness
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Source: Medscape PublicHealth Headlines - December 20, 2006 Source Type: news
Sports Physicals: A Coding Conundrum
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Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines - December 20, 2006 Source Type: news
Depression and ADHD: What You Need to Know
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Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines - December 20, 2006 Source Type: news
Adherence to Preventive Medications: Predictors and Outcomes in the Diabetes Prevention Program
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Source: Medscape PublicHealth Headlines - December 20, 2006 Source Type: news
Vietnam Confirms Avian Flu Outbreak Is Lethal Strain
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Source: Public Health News From Medical News Today - December 20, 2006 Source Type: news
Self-Rated Fair or Poor Health Among Adults with Diabetes- United States, 1996-2005
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Source: Medscape PublicHealth Headlines - December 20, 2006 Source Type: news
Oral Contraception
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Source: Women's Health Medicine - December 20, 2006 Authors: Helen WebberleyMelanie Mann Source Type: news
Premenstrual syndrome
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Source: Women's Health Medicine - December 20, 2006 Authors: Khaled M K IsmailShaughn O’Brien Source Type: news
Understanding emergency contraception
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Source: Women's Health Medicine - December 20, 2006 Authors: J Guillebaud Source Type: news
What might be the cause of three enlarged lymph notes on the sternocleidomastoid (4mm across), persistent for 3 weeks, in a seemly healthy 16 month old child?
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Source: NLH Question Answering Service - December 19, 2006 Source Type: news
Professional Confidence
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Source: Medscape PublicHealth Headlines - December 19, 2006 Source Type: news
Low-Dose Atomoxetine May Be Effective as ADHD Maintenance Treatment in Children
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Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines - December 19, 2006 Source Type: news
HIV and other sexually transmitted infections
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Source: PCCAS: Full newsfeed - December 19, 2006 Source Type: news
Introduction to Health Policy: Organization and Financing, the Uninsured, Medicare Part D, Primary Care, Physician workforce and student choice, International health comparisons (Eric Henley MD, MPH)
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Source: Family Medicine Digital Resources Library (FMDRL) Recently Uploaded - December 19, 2006 Source Type: news
Getting the at-risk patient back to work.
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Source: Australian Family Physician audio - December 18, 2006 Authors: The Royal Australian College Of General Practitioners Tags: Podcasts Source Type: news
New Findings in Epilepsy From the 60th Annual Meeting of the American Epilepsy Society: An Expert Interview With Robert Gross, MD, PhD
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Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines - December 18, 2006 Source Type: news
Once-Daily Protease Inhibitor Regimens: Pharmacologic Interactions and Clinical Implications
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Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines - December 18, 2006 Source Type: news
Multivitamin Supplementation May Benefit Adolescents
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Source: Medscape PublicHealth Headlines - December 18, 2006 Source Type: news
How Does Bariatric Surgery Affect the Absorption of Medications?
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Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines - December 18, 2006 Source Type: news
High IQ Children Grow into Vegetarians
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