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March 5, 2012
ACP recommends that physicians perform an individualized assessment of risk for colorectal cancer in all adults. Physicians should screen for colorectal cancer in average risk adults starting at the age of 50 and in high risk adults starting at the age of 40 or 10 years younger than the age at which the youngest affected relative was diagnosed with colorectal cancer.
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March 2, 2012
The American College of Rheumatology has released the first classification criteria for polymyalgia rheumatica -- aimed at helping physicians identify patients with this condition, which occurs in persons aged 50 years or older who have recent onset of pain in the shoulders, neck and hips along with other inflammatory symptoms not explained by an alternate diagnosis.
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June 17, 2025
One hundred years after the Scopes trial, religious ideologues are still trying to supplant evidence-based curricula with myths, to the detriment of a well-informed society
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January 8, 2025
The Trump administration may undermine U.S. leadership and the international system of global health cooperation. Pandemic preparedness, resilient health systems and reproductive rights will suffer worldwide
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February 28, 2012
The United States Food and Drug Administration announced it is revising safety information on the labels of some statins (cholesterol-lowering drugs).
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February 21, 2012
Among findings posted in the inaugural publication of the American Heart Association's online-only, free-access scientific journal, the NIH Stroke Scale accurately identifies patients with the highest risk of death in the first month after stroke.
Aspirin works as well as more expensive drugs in combination with a walking program to treat blocked leg arteries. Heart failure patients do better when they receive several evidence-based treatments at once.
Kidney problems signal the highest…
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January 5, 2012
On January 5, 2012, the American Mathematical Society
will award several major prizes at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in
Boston.
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March 13, 2012
Only one in four Americans favors Israel conducting a military strike against Iran's nuclear program, finds a new University of Maryland poll. Nearly seven in ten (69 percent) favor the United States and other major powers continuing to pursue negotiations with Iran, a position supported by majorities of Republicans (58 percent), Democrats (79 percent) and Independents (67 percent).
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May 31, 2012
NEW DATA ON OBESITY, DIABETES, HEART DISEASE AND NEWER METHODS OF BARIATRIC SURGERY
29TH ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR METABOLIC & BARIATRIC SURGERY (ASMBS) IN SAN DIEGO FROM JUNE 20 TO JUNE 22, 2012
DATA PRESENTATIONS: HOT STUDIES AND STORIES
• Cleveland Clinic study provides insight on impact of surgery on prevention or elimination of a dreaded complication of Type 2 diabetes that proved even surprising to the group that published landmark findings…
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