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• Is it Possible For All Patients to Be Fatigue-Free?

  
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  It’s uncommon for doctors to see real, honest-to-God improvement in their symptoms unless they are treated correctly. Find out what these doctors did to relieve fatigue in 100% of their patients. Read more:  Is it Possible For All Patients to Be Fatigue-Free?
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• ASH: IV Iron Fails Test in Cancer-Related Anemia (CME/CE)

  
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  NEW ORLEANS (MedPage Today) -- Intravenous iron supplementation failed to boost the benefits of erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs) in cancer patients with chemotherapy-induced anemia, according to data from the largest study of its kind.
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• Will Kareem be Head Coach? He Has Faith — and Maybe That’s an Issue

  
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  By Gregg Doyel CBSSports.com National Columnist The tragedy of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar isn’t that he’ll die some day. We’ll all die some day. The tragedy is that he’ll die without spending even an hour as a head coach in the NBA. He’s not going to die any time soon, certainly not from the rare form of ...
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• New Technology to Monitor Health and Safety

  
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  I’m impressed by some new technologies I am seeing and reading about that have the potential to improve the quality of life for people with chronic health problems — and most particularly for elderly men and women who want to continue to live independently. I’m talking about devices that measure and track data, ...
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• The FDA and Social Media

  
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  Many of you know that the FDA held public hearings on the pharma industry’s use of Social Media mid-last-month.  There was much excitement going into this because to date, the FDA has pretty much dodged the subject, and left drugmakers in fear of retribution (see BusinessWeek’s summary here).Essentially, since ...
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• Most viewed article – Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy and Brief Supportive Psychotherapy for Augmentation of Antidepressant Nonresponse in Chronic Depression

  
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  Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy and Brief Supportive Psychotherapy for Augmentation of Antidepressant Nonresponse in Chronic Depression, Archives of General Psychiatry.  2009;66(11):1178-1188 The REVAMP Trial James H. Kocsis   Abstract: Context  ...
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• Nerve-cell transplants help recover lost ability to learn in brain-damaged rats

  
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  Washington, Dec 10 (ANI): In a study conducted in India, researchers found that nerve cells transplanted into brain-damaged rats helped them to fully recover their ability to learn and remember, probably by promoting nurturing, protective growth factors.The study confirmed that cell transplants could help the brain to ...
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• Cancer Drug Shows Promise in Treating Patients With Asthma

  
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  Edinburgh, Scotland (AHN) – Researchers believe a drug currently being tested to treat cancer may also provide relief for asthma patients. Scientists at the University of Edinburgh have discovered that the drug – R-Roscovitine – helps to kill certain immune cells which can exacerbate symptoms associated with ...
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• Public Option Out?

  
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  The “deal” is made. Or so it seems.  In the kind of back door bargaining that killed health reform in 1992-94 under President Clinton, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid believes he has come up with a compromise that will allow him to to 60 votes on passage of health reform bill in the Senate.  Since both those ...
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• Cancer Patient Takes on Canadian Bureaucracy in Desperate Fight for Life

  
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  Suzanne Aucoin of St. Catharines, Ontario never imagined that dealing with the Canadian health care bureaucracy would be as tough as battling terminal cancer. Aucoin had to go to the U.S. for treatment initially denied to her. While ill, she then engaged in a prolonged and complicated fight to get access to a ...
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• Heart bypass surgery question solved "off-pump" is the better technique for majority of patients

  
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  Dr. Joel Rosenberg, of St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center in Syracuse, recently did a heart bypass operation on an 86-year-old Central New York woman without assistance from the heart-lung machine.source [...]
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• News brief: Dermatologic infections in cancer patients treated with EGFRI therapy

  
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  (Journal of the National Cancer Institute) Patients who experience dermatologic toxic effects from epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitors (EGFRIs) have a high prevalence of skin and nail infections, according to [...]
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• Gastric Bypass And Diabetes

  
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  Gastric bypass and other bariatric medical procedures are primarily performed to resolve issues of morbid obesity. Not only does gastric bypass help in weight-loss, but studies show that it has dramatic effects on diseases associated with obesity like heart diseases,…
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• Men Going In For Plastic Surgery?

  
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  Women have historically been the race most likely to take advantage of plastic surgery. To the surprise of many, more and more men are looking to plastic surgery.Men Going In For Plastic Surgery?Mention plastic surgery patients and one immediately thinks of women. The names of procedures such as facelifts and breast ...
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• Free Course-Exercise Your Brain

  
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  If you ever needed another good reason to exercise, I’ve got one for you:Exercise makes your brain bigger.Actually this isn’t entirely accurate. To be more specific, exercise was found to increase brain size slightly, but far more important to increase “spatial reasoning.”This is the ability to recognize ...
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• Elite hospitals face crackdown on treating private patients

  
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  Elite hospital trusts face a crackdown in the amount of money they can earn from treating private patients after a court ruled the system was too lax.
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• India’s swine flu toll touches 666 (Lead)

  
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  New Delhi, Dec 9 (IANS) At least 13 more swine flu patients died in India, taking the toll due to the contagious virus to 666, health authorities said Wednesday.Of these latest fatalities, Rajasthan and Chandigarh reported four each, followed by two deaths in Maharashtra and one each in Delhi, Himachal Pradesh and ...
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• Action for Stroke Prevention Launches How Can We Avoid a Stroke Crisis? To Expose Risk of a Stroke Crisis in Europe from Atrial Fibrillation

  
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  Urgent coordinated action is needed to avoid the thousands of preventable strokes that leave many atrial fibrillation (AF) patients mentally and physically disabled or dead every year. A report, How Can We Avoid a Stroke Crisis? , was launched today in the European Parliament in Brussels by Action for Stroke ...
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• 12 Health and Safety Tips for the Holidays by CDC

  
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  From CDC : Wash hands often to keep yourself from spreading germs and getting sick. Bundle up to stay dry and warm. Manage stress. Dont over-commit yourself and keep holiday spending in check. Dont drink and drive or let others drink and drive. Be smoke-free. Avoid smoking and second-hand smoke. ...
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• Phase II clinical trial results of Doxorubicin Transdrug announced (News-Medical-Net)

  
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  BioAlliance Pharma SA, a company dedicated to the treatment and supportive care of cancer and AIDS patients, today announces positive survival data in its phase II clinical trial with doxorubicin Transdrug® in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (primary liver cancer). (read here…) Related items ...
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