Preventive Medicine

Today's financial institutions and tomorrow's monetary order

Jean-Claude Trichet, President of the ECB, Keynote speech at the 19th Frankfurt European Banking Congress: “After the Crisis”, Frankfurt am Main, Alte Oper, 20 November 2009 Ladies and Gentlemen, It is always a pleasure to join...

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Promise of Cash Prompts Smokers to Quit

Financial incentives tripled rates of cessation, study found By Serena Gordon HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Feb. 11 (HealthDay News) -- The study, published in the Feb. 12 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, included...

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Why you shouldn't fear the new mammogram guidelines

Parsing the mammogram guidelines By Douglas Kamerow and Steven Woolf Controversy continues over the mammography guidelines released Monday by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. As family physicians and preventive medicine...

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Diuretics Still Best Treatment for High Blood Pressure

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 18 (HealthDay News) -- The thiazide-type diuretic chlorthalidone outshone three other treatments -- a calcium channel blocker, an ACE inhibitor and an alpha-receptor blocker -- in most areas, especially in...

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Nutra Pharma Introduces Chronic Pain Reliever, Nyloxin OTC, for International Distribution

Nutra Pharma has introduced Nyloxin OTC, an over-the-counter pain reliever, that will be marketed and sold through international distribution channels alongside the Company's prescription pain reliever, Nyloxin Rx. Plantation,...

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U.S. Preventive Medicine Introduces The Prevention Score(TM)

DALLAS and JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Nov. 19 /- U.S. Preventive Medicine, Inc. ( www.USPreventiveMedicine.com ) Chairman and CEO Christopher T. Fey today announced the national launch of the Prevention Score((SM)), the country's...

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Reflux esophagitis due to immune reaction, not acute acid burn

DALLAS Nov. 19, 2009 Contrary to current thinking, a condition called gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) might not develop as a direct result of acidic digestive juices burning the esophagus, UT Southwestern Medical Center...

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On the trail of a vaccine for Lyme disease: Yale researchers target tick saliva

New Haven, Conn. A protein found in the saliva of ticks helps protect mice from developing Lyme disease, Yale researchers have discovered. The findings, published in the November 19 issue of Cell Host & Microbe , may spur...

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Night Beat, Overtime and a Disrupted Sleep Pattern Can Harm Officers' Health

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- John M. Violanti, PhD, research associate professor in UB's Department of Social and Preventive Medicine in the School of Public Health and Health Professions, is first author on the paper, and received...

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Renal Denervation as a Therapeutic Approach for Hypertension: Novel Implications for an Old...

in Therapeutics (H.K.), Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Department of Cardiology (R.W.), St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Heart...

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