In Clinical Cases and Images - Posted 1 day ago

Very severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) causes cor pulmonale - elevated pulmonary vascular resistance and secondary reductions in lef...

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In Freedom from Smoking - Posted 2 days ago

The tobacco industry and its products (primarily cigarettes) has caused the premature deaths of over 13 million people in the United States since the ...

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In CNN Paging Dr. Gupta - Posted 3 days ago

By Laura CozikAthletic Director, CNN Fit Nation Triathlon ChallengeCEO, Team Lipstick TriathlonIn a triathlon, the swim is the shortest part of the ra...

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In Natural Holistic Health Blog - Posted 5 days ago

Question: from Marc Does Beta Carotene Increase Risk of Cancer?The WCRF have recently released the results from the research carried out looking i...

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In WSJ.com: Health Blog - Posted 6 days ago

Another day, another stock-price jump.First, the preliminaries: An advisory panel this afternoon recommended the FDA approve a lung drug developed by ...

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In WSJ.com: Health Blog - Posted 1 week ago

The FDA staff said it has a bunch of questions about InterMune s new drug to slow deteriorating lung functioning. But investors figure the concerns ...

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In Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - Posted 1 week ago

by John Schumann, MDI made a New Year s resolution to become a vegetarian. Or a mostly vegetarian.I ve been thinking about it for a long time, bu...

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In H5N1 - Posted 1 week ago

Robert Roos at CIDRAP has a very interesting article: H1N1 mutation's proposed link to severe illness debated. Excerpt:Norwegian scientists today rep...

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In Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - Posted 1 week ago

by Kenneth Lin, MDThe Framingham Heart Study is perhaps the most famous long-term medical study. As every medical student learns, starting in 1948, th...

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In Purple Medical Blog - Posted 1 week ago

Does Meningitis Vaccine Protect from All Meningitis and What is Meningitis Anyway and Video of Real Life Case of MeningitisVideo Of Real Life Meningit...

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