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How Extreme Rainfall Amplifies Health Risks
Climate change may impact respiratory, cardiovascular, and mental health as extreme weather increases.
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When Childhood Cancer Survivors Face Sexual Challenges
The disruptions caused by cancer and its treatment can interfere with normal physiological and psychological development, leading to issues with...
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Updated Guideline Reflects New Drugs for Type 2 Diabetes
The ACP recommends adding an SGLT-2 inhibitor or a GLP-1 agonist to metformin and lifestyle modifications in adults with inadequately controlled...
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What Health Risks Do Microplastics Pose?
The way micro- and nanoplastics may influence cellular functions and induce stress responses is not yet well understood.
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Understanding and Promoting Compassion in Medicine
Improving compassion may depend on the creation of organizational and clinical conditions in which physician compassion can thrive.
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How Does Snoring Affect Cardiovascular Health?
A randomization study suggested that OSA and snoring increase the risk for hypertension and CAD, with associations...
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Communicating Bad News to Patients
Protocols can help guide physicians as they give patients and their families bad news.
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How Do Anogenital Injuries Relate to Rape Accusations?
Presence or absence of anogenital injuries does not prove or disprove rape accusations.
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Which factors predict primary nonadherence to medications?
With most medication adherence research to date focused on secondary nonadherence, PMN has been identified as a major research gap.
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How useful are circulating tumor cells for early diagnosis?
Their link with metastases, and thus with aggressive tumors, gives them an advantage over other (noninvasive or minimally invasive) biomarkers in...
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Impostor syndrome is a risk for doctors of all ages
These people ignore praise, are highly self-critical, and attribute their successes to external factors, such as luck, hard work, or receiving...
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What new cardiovascular disease risk factors have emerged?
Recognizing the presence of one or more of these new risk factors could help prompt and improve behaviors for reducing more conventional CV risk...
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How does salt intake relate to mortality?
Although there is an ongoing debate about the extent of salt’s effects ... there is no doubt that in most places in the world, people are...
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Hormone therapy and breast cancer: An overview
It can be expected that the effects of menopausal hormone therapy may vary between participants on the basis of age or time since menopause, as...