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Is Routine Medical Screening Ever Appropriate?

8/2/2016

Special Report: Should You Keep Doing Pelvic Exams? How to Decide

The USPSTF has found there is Insufficient Evidence for Pelvic Exam Screening.

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Medicine lengthens the dreadful part of Alzheimer's

7/23/2016

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DBS May Slow Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer's Disease

You know, the niggling "knowing" bit between being diagnosed, and being so riddles one has no present memories. I thought this was the bad part of the disease.

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Physicians angry that they are the third leading cause of death in the US demand article retraction

7/13/2016

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Physicians Launch Call for BMJ to Retract Medical Error Study

Alternate lede: Butthurt docs whinge.

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The simple rules of life

6/30/2016

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The simple rules of life

Don't Tell Me I Have To Go Organic

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Embrace our medical robot overlords

6/23/2016

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'End of Controversy': Robotic Prostatectomy Is Winner

As long as they are not from the government, and here to help!

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Imagine the possibilities of socialized medicine

6/20/2016

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Family claim mother, 85, died in hospital after nurses refused to give her water – so she wouldn’t wet the bed

This is shocking, but all to common in Britain.

Thousands die of thirst and poor care in NHS

Tragedy of 3,000 patients that die of thirst in hospitals every month

It does tend to keep medical care costs down, however.

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Pot is for dopes, but those Magic Mushrooms . . .

6/15/2016

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Here's what magic mushrooms do to your body and brain

Of all the illegals, this seems to be the one with actual promise. Yet it remains verboten.

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Wait, I though white mice cause cancer!

6/15/2016

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Instapundit: Very hot drinks are ‘probably carcinogenic’

Luckily the WHO no longer thinks coffee causes cancer! Then again, all research studies are wrong.

Why Most Published Research Findings Are False

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Viagra, what can't it do?!

6/14/2016

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Viagra STOPS heart attacks: Sex drug could soon be used to treat hundreds of thousands

What other drug could stop a heart attack, and save a marriage all in one fell swoop?

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Serum Cholesterol levels don't count?!

6/14/2016

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High cholesterol 'does not cause heart disease' new research finds, so treating with statins a 'waste of time'

“What we found in our detailed systematic review was that older people with high LDL (low-density lipoprotein) levels, the so-called “bad” cholesterol, lived longer and had less heart disease.

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Is Routine Medical Screening Ever Appropriate?

Medicine lengthens the dreadful part of Alzheimer's

Physicians angry that they are the third leading cause of death in the US demand article retraction

The simple rules of life

Embrace our medical robot overlords

Imagine the possibilities of socialized medicine

Pot is for dopes, but those Magic Mushrooms . . .

Wait, I though white mice cause cancer!

Viagra, what can't it do?!

Serum Cholesterol levels don't count?!

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