Though a recent report ranking the health care systems of 7 industrialized countries received the most attention because the US was in last place, other interesting results from the study bring into question patient-centered medicine.
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Is Patient-Centered Medicine Bad For Overall Health Care Quality?
June 26th, 2010 
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Comments OffRethinking The Strategies For Fighting Antibiotic Resistance
June 20th, 2010 admin For more than 80 years, since the development of the first antibiotic, humans and bacteria have been in a form of arms race with ever more advanced antibiotics fighting ever more resistant bacteria. Now, the strategies in the battle are changing.
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June 15th, 2010 admin Though there are many idealistic visions of living to a “Ripe Old Age”, reality has a tendency to mess up many plans. Conditions such as cancer and Alzheimers might immediately come to mind, but broken hip, not so much.
Read the rest of this article » Posted in Disease Information, General Health, Health Risks Tags: aging, broken hip, embolism, fragile bones, osteoporosis 1 Comment »Understanding The Risks And Pain Of Gout, The "Rich Man’s Disease"
June 8th, 2010 admin Known to human kind for more than 4000 years, Gout has brought excruciating episodes of joint pain to many affluent individuals. In modern society, however, an increasing number of individuals are alsosharing in the pain associated with the condition.
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June 2nd, 2010 admin Being the most common form of cancer by a long stretch, physicians diagnose skin cancer in the US more than 1,000,000 times per year and the rate is growing. What most people do not know but should is exactly who is at risk.
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