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| what you should know about breast cancer | 27 Dec 2005 22:36 GMT | 45 |
What You Should Know About Breast Cancer Risk Drink more tea! Eat more vegetables! Throw out your antiperspirant!" Women are bombarded with advice on how to reduce their risk for breast cancer. What you often don't hear is that none of these methods can
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| Healthcare rationing | 27 Dec 2005 19:01 GMT | 1 |
http://www.brookings.edu/comm/policybriefs/pb147.htm
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| Negotiate your medical bills? | 27 Dec 2005 16:19 GMT | 48 |
Excerpts from http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113244677200102388.html As consumers carry a bigger share of rising medical expenses, more people are finding themselves having to negotiate the cost of their care. Some are negotiating based on financial need. Others are asking
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| cranial morphology of early americans | 27 Dec 2005 04:01 GMT | 4 |
Published online before print December 12, 2005 Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 10.1073/pnas.0507185102 Anthropology-Biological Sciences Cranial morphology of early Americans from Lagoa Santa, Brazil:
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| Ear Infections - Alternatives to Ear Tubes? | 26 Dec 2005 23:47 GMT | 2 |
Several months ago, a TV news show had a segment on kids with chronic ear infections getting better without ear tubes. Be grateful if somebody would respond with details about the medical procedure involved and if they are valid.
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| Red blood cell count question(s) | 26 Dec 2005 19:17 GMT | 2 |
I have always had trouble working out for either stamina or strength. I now find out that my RBC is 4.30 mill/mcl; my hemoglobin is 13.7 g/dl and hemocrit is 40.6%. On the scale it looks like I am a hair way from being out of the normal range for all of these. Is this hair important ...
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| Secular Trend continues | 26 Dec 2005 15:18 GMT | 3 |
J Pediatr. 2005 Dec;147(6):753-60. Interpreting the continued decline in the average age at menarche: results from two nationally representative surveys of u.s. Girls studied 10 years apart.
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| What percentage of kids are not toilet trained by age four? | 26 Dec 2005 15:11 GMT | 3 |
Does anyone have any info on this topic? Out daughter turned 4 this past October (2005). We trained our first daughter at 27 months and it was quick and painless. We started our second daughter when she was about 27 months. It's now almost 2 years later and she still has many
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| searching for dysphagia cause | 26 Dec 2005 14:40 GMT | 1 |
My mom (who lives in Europe) has had dysphagia issues for a long time (roughly 20 years). It always seems to come and go, lately every 1.5 years or so. When it occurs, she's not able to eat or drink almost anything for 2-3 days (implying hospital visits, IV in some cases),
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| DARWIN A N0-SHOW FOR SEANCE DEBATE WITH VELIKOVSKY | 26 Dec 2005 08:48 GMT | 3 |
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| Cost of Blood Tests | 26 Dec 2005 08:27 GMT | 14 |
I am trying to get a handle on the cost of a blood test in a large Metropolitan hospital as part of a physical. My physician has an office in a wing of the hospital. I had a standard physical where the doctor sent me down to the lab for blood
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| Will Gastaldo finally be satisfied? | 25 Dec 2005 22:02 GMT | 2 |
Famed internet "kook" Todd Gastaldo has for years claimed that "MDs" are "LYING by omission" by calling vaccines "immunizations" while "failing" to acknowledge and/or inform mothers that breastfeeding is immunization. He also claims that "MDs" imply vaccines are 100%
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| Can "miasma theory" still hold some good? | 25 Dec 2005 04:23 GMT | 1 |
"Miasma Theory Miasmas are poisonous emanations, from putrefying carcasses, rotting vegetation or molds, and invisible dust particles inside dwellings. They were once believed to enter the body and cause disease. This
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| Should doctors accept gifts from patients? | 25 Dec 2005 02:57 GMT | 2 |
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/331/7531/1527
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| What color is a human liver in vivo? | 24 Dec 2005 23:03 GMT | 1 |
I looked around for a few pictures of a functioning human liver in vivo on the Net, and it looks kind of light pinkish-brown from what I saw (more pink than brown). And yet illustrations almost always show the liver as being dark reddish brown, like the beef livers you see in
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