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| 2010/06/26 |
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| 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. |
| tags patient-centered health care socialized health care private health care health rankings |
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| 2010/05/26 |
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| With roughly 1 in 10 people affected by migraines on a regular basis, many people know the suffering associated with the disorder. Though often dismissed as a bad headache, migraines do in fact pose a considerable economic problem for both individuals and society as a whole. |
| tags headache migraine aura stroke chronic pain health costs |
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| 2010/05/12 |
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| While science fiction often tries to paint a view of the future, one cliche that has been overplayed is the idea of a repaired spinal cord being the promise of medicine to come. That said, repair of the human spine has proven a considerable challenge. |
| tags spine health spinal cord paraplegic nerve repair nerve regeneration |
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| 2010/04/30 |
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| Most of us have experienced back pain or seen the suffering in those close to us because back pain affects so many people. Unfortunately, the treatment of back pain is still primitive and both the costs to lives and dollar costs are high. |
| tags spine health back pain chronic pain dorsalgia dorsopathy exercise degenerative disc disease |
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| 2010/04/25 |
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| Although hemophilia is a rare disease, this blood clotting disorder is famous because of its effects on a number of historic royal families. Today, however, research is finding ways to better treat the disease and eliminate both the costs to the health care system and individual lives. |
| tags clotting disorder hemophilia blood disorder genetic disorder genetics health costs medical research |
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| 2010/04/19 |
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| Although hemophilia is a rare disease, this blood clotting disorder has gained considerable attention because of its implications to a number of royal families of old. Today, however, the high costs to individuals and society in treating the disease are what give it notoriety. |
| tags clotting disorder hemophilia blood disorder genetic disorder genetics health costs health forums |
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| 2010/03/16 |
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| Rarely do we think of the consequences that might result were our bodies not held together as well as they are. For some people with connective tissue disorders such as Marfan Syndrome, the most severe implications of a body that does not resist the forces and strains of everyday can be fatal. |
| tags marfan syndrome MFS connective tissue detached lens genetic disorder health forums |
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| 2010/03/12 |
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| Somewhere between benign and malignant tumors, there exists the poorly named precancerous tumor, a confusing concept to many a patient. However, the concept would not be as confusing as it is if a better name was chosen for these sorts of potentially dangerous growths. |
| tags cancer precancerous cancer in situ tumor malignant benign health forums |
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| 2010/02/14 |
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| With so much US attention directed toward health care and personal health, ideas spanning the range from conservative to liberal are being presented about how health care should work. Unfortunately, many of these views are extreme, ignoring alternatives. |
| tags personal health individual health prevention sustainable health care |
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| 2010/02/08 |
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| Because of the much publicized health reform efforts in the US, health care and personal health are receiving attention in many areas of the world highlighting how different countries cope with delivering care as effectively as possible. Unfortunately extreme conservative and liberal views are cloud |
| tags personal health individual health sustainable health care health costs health reform health forums |
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