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People Rate Overheard Phone Calls More Likely To Distract Than Other Background Conversations

A one-sided cellphone conversation in the background is likely to be much more distracting than overhearing a conversation between two people,according to research published March 13 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Veronica Galvan and colleagues from the University of San Diego…Public Health News From Medical News Today

Report Calls for Better U.S. Efforts to Fight Counterfeit Drugs

Title:Report Calls for Better U.S. Efforts to Fight Counterfeit DrugsCategory:Health NewsCreated:2/13/2013 2:35:00 PMLast Editorial Review:2/14/2013 12:00:00 AM MedicineNet Daily News

Report Calls for Better U.S. Efforts to Fight Counterfeit Drugs

Title:Report Calls for Better U.S. Efforts to Fight Counterfeit DrugsCategory:Health NewsCreated:2/13/2013 2:35:00 PMLast Editorial Review:2/14/2013 12:00:00 AM MedicineNet Daily News

WHO Bulletin review of TB and illicit drug use calls for five “urgent measures”

Sharing drug equipment that includes water pipes,often living in close quarters,frequently imprisoned,and facing greater than average rates of other health conditions including alcoholism,hepatitis B and C,as well as HIV,people who use illicit drugs have higher than average odds of getting tuberculosis infection and disease,with outbreaks of drug-resistant [...]

ACP calls for immunizations for all health care providers

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“As She Lay Dying” – a son calls on the health system to involve patients and families in improving safety–Susannah Fox

Warning:this doesn’t end well. Not for anyone in the story. Unless it changes you,as it did me.

Jonathan Welch,MD,teaches at Harvard Medical School and practices in the ER at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. But,as is often the case in life,the information that really matters is more personal:[...]

WHO Calls For Emergency Stockpile Of Cholera Vaccine

After a successful project to vaccinate Haitians against cholera,the World Health Organization is calling for the establishment of a global stockpile of the vaccine to respond to outbreaks like the one that struck Haiti.

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US law-makers need to encourage research on firearms-related violence so that gun laws can be based on facts rather than ideology.

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Top science body calls for open access to research data to maximise their potential for public good

The move towards open access to research findings needs to be supported by an open data policy to ensure data are fully exploited by researchers for the public good,says a report from the UK’s most…

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Penn Medicine Study Calls for Range of Diagnostic Spinal Fluid Tests to Help Clinicians Differentiate Concurrent Neurodegenerative Diseases

In a series of studies being presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s 64th Annual Meeting in New Orleans,Penn researchers demonstrated that,while tests created for AD are effectively diagnosing the condition when it’s clear cut,additional tests are needed to address the many cases with mixed pathology.

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