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Doctors with electronic systems order more imaging tests
Doctors who have access to computer test results order more tests than doctors who don’t, according to a new study that challenges an assumption about electronic health records.
The study in the March issue of the journal Health Affairs found...Tags: Electronics, Medical Procedures and Tests, General Practitioners
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Change the World Bank needs
Few people on the street may be familiar with the World Bank. Yet, it plays a critical role in the U.S. effort to engage the world through its contribution to economic development in poor and post-conflict societies. As current World Bank President...Tags: Morgan State University, Christian Orthodoxy, Teaching and Learning, Occupations, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Do doctors lie to patients?
Do you think your doctor is open and honest with you? Maybe not always, according to a new survey. Researchers from Harvard Medical School and the Mongan Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston surveyed 1,891 physicians...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Hospitals and Clinics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Malpractice, General Practitioners
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New case of alleged patricide stirs old memories of similar high-profile cases
When Timothy Scott Sherman shot and killed his mother and adoptive father while they slept, the case disturbed the normally quiet life in the small Harford County hamlet of Hickory. A quarter-century later, another family murder has rocked the county, in...Tags: Lawyers, Colleges and Universities, Tampa, Bel Air (Harford, Maryland), Defense
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Lead paint judgments: the shame of the city
For the past two decades, many in Maryland have worked tirelessly to eliminate lead poisoning and to protect our most vulnerable children and families. It has required a lot of heavy lifting — organizing and educating parents, children and...Tags: Interior Policy, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Public Housing, Physical Conditions, Housing and Urban Planning
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Reading by 8th grade not realistic for everyone
While No Child Left Behind continues to be underfunded, and Race to the Top may reward schools in affluent communities, please consider that the goal that all students read by 8th grade may not be viable, as one-fifth of the population has a learning...Tags: Colleges and Universities
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Peering into the troubled mind of Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann heard so much music in his head, he felt compelled to compose.
"I cannot help it," he wrote to his wife, Clara, "and should like to sing myself to death, like a nightingale."
When he died at the age of 46 in an asylum, the only sounds he...Tags: Symptoms, Colleges and Universities, Music Industry, Bipolar Disorder, Psychiatry
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Physician pay, medical disclosure rules criticized
The payments and "VIP trips" given to a Maryland cardiologist by Abbott Laboratories for parties and consulting work — disclosed in a federal report released Monday — are just what new legislation and industry guidelines are supposed to...Tags: Abbott Laboratories, Hospitals and Clinics, St. Joseph Medical Center, Event Planning, U.S. Department of Justice
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Study sounds alarm on healers' health risks
In laparoscopic surgery, gall bladders are removed, stomachs are constricted and tumors are excised through small incisions that mean less pain and shorter hospital stays. But while the patients are benefiting, the procedures are causing injuries in...Tags: Symptoms, Research, Hospitals and Clinics, Drugs and Medicines, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Officials urge taking precautions against return of West Nile virus
Sun-SentinelWhile SARS dominated public attention during the past weeks, the discovery in March of a dead blue jay and two dead sparrows in Louisiana signaled the reawakening of another looming public health threat - West Nile virus. The mosquito-borne illness swept...Tags: Symptoms, Harvard University, Headaches, Medical Procedures and Tests, Animals
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Cruelest mystery: death before life
That chilly night in late October, the delivery room was so quiet. The doctor wrapped the 8-pound, 21-inch newborn girl in a pink-and-blue striped cotton blanket, pulled a matching cap over her brown hair and gently passed her to her mother. Margarete...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ellicott City, Obstetrics
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Getting to Alzheimer's roots
The end for the Alzheimer's patient is a horror: The person is mute, bedridden, adrift from the thoughts and feelings that make up a life. The brain undergoes an equally disturbing transformation, shrunken by as much as half, mottled all over with...Tags: Symptoms, Aging, Drugs and Medicines, Medical Procedures and Tests, Trials
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