| Patients in the waiting room do not know why doctors are running late - Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:00:53 PST |
| I hate running late. I prefer to arrive five minutes early for any meeting. I was that compulsive student who always turned in papers before they were due. Now I turn in conference abstracts, grant applications, and even poetry contest submissions, well before their deadlines. Unfortunately, timing is not always in my control. I particularly [...] |
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| Top stories in health and medicine this morning, February 8, 2012 - Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:00:56 PST |
| This series is brought to you by MedPage Today. 1. Aspirin, Plavix Not Good Stroke Prevention Combo. Combining clopidogrel (Plavix) with aspirin did not prevent recurrent stroke deep in the brain, and even increased the risk of bleeding and death. 2. Wii Helps Arms, Heart in Stroke Patients. A short but intense Wii-based program not [...] |
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| A look behind the growing cost of cancer drugs - Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:00:50 PST |
| Julie Gralow, an oncologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, recently prescribed an exciting new therapy for a 60-year-old woman with metastatic breast cancer. Three-and-a-half years into her battle against the disease, the patient had already exhausted three different anti-estrogen therapies, each of which only put a temporary check on the spreading tumors. [...] |
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