In Dr. Buttery's Public Health BLOG - Posted 1 week ago

National Institutes of Health analyzed results from the annual HealthStyles survey of American public health attitudes. The fourth leading cause of de...

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In DB's Medical Rants - Posted 1 week ago

56 year old man with known COPD and pulmonary fibrosis was admitted a week ago for worsening respiratory status. He slowly improved (after a few d...

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In Straight From the Doc - Posted 4 weeks ago

November is COPD Awareness Month.Even though Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is the 4th leading cause of death in the U.S. it is not well...

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In Clinical Cases and Images - Posted 5 weeks ago

A 56-yo male with severe asthma and cirrhosis due to hepatitis C takes milk thistle (Silybum marianum) for his liver disease. He is on maximal asthma ...

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In Clinical Cases and Images - Posted 6 weeks ago

Tiotropium is a once-daily, inhaled anticholinergic drug that provides at least 24-hour improvements in airflow and hyperinflation in patients with CO...

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In Medgadget - Posted 8 weeks ago

A device which almost helped Tom Bourdillon to reach the peak of the Everest (three days before Sir Edmund Hillary) is being resurrected to help peopl...

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In Baseline of Health Blog - Posted 9 weeks ago

I do not like broccoli, George Bush, Senior, once said, And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm Pr...

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In Straight From the Doc - Posted 9 weeks ago

5617357Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Gustaf BrundinMy favorite cruciferous veggie - broccoli - has already been linked to various health benefits. It...

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In Clinical Cases and Images - Posted 12 weeks ago

One of the latest applications of our free case-based curriculum of clinical medicine, ClinicalCases.org, was in the teaching of the residents at Mos...

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In Clinical Cases and Images - Posted 17 weeks ago

Google Knol is a free online collaborative knowledge database or an experts' wiki but not an encyclopedia. Knol is not a direct competitor of Wikipedi...

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