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Office staff cohesiveness remains important
When you get the right people, count yourself lucky and do what you have to do to keep them, says Dr. Allan M. Block.
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Impact of sleep loss on metabolism is highly individualistic
The findings could have implications for identifying patients who could “at a higher risk of unwanted weight gain and obesity during shift work...
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Follow-up care for pediatric concussions not heeded in Ontario
Most children with concussions are not being treated in accordance with the accepted treatment guidelines.
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Variants in one gene account for 7% of juvenile myoclonic epilepsy cases
Twenty-one separate variants in the ICK gene accounted for the cases.
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Alcohol dependence may accelerate aging, frontal cortical deficits
The accelerated aging and cortical volume deficits found in the study were “independent of drug dependence or HCV infection comorbidity.”
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MDedge Daily News: Why the barber’s chair can help hypertension
And how excessive daytime sleepiness could lead to dementia.
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Transporting stroke patients directly to thrombectomy boosts outcomes
Modeling of real-world data suggests transporting acute ischemic stroke patients directly to more distant thrombectomy centers outperforms...
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Excessive daytime sleepiness linked to increase in Alzheimer’s biomarker
Findings come from the first study to take a longitudinal look at excessive daytime sleepiness and beta-amyloid accumulation.
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MDedge Daily News: Improving wearable cardioverter defibrillators
And alirocumab cuts deaths in post–acute coronary syndrome patients.
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The case for being open-minded about medical marijuana
LAS VEGAS – As part of an open approach, educate patients about effective alternative treatments to medical cannabis, an expert advises.
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A health plan ‘down payment’ is one way states are retooling individual mandate
Some states are formulating laws that safeguard the central provisions of the ACA.