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Is air filtration the best public health intervention against respiratory viruses?
The idea is that those ions stick to the virus particles ... and that tends to cause them to clump together and settle on surfaces more rapidly,...
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Physicians: Don’t ignore sexuality in your dying patients
A key question in palliative care is: How do you want to live the life you have left?
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Is metabolically healthy obesity an ‘illusion’?
Now that we have the tools we need, let’s commit to helping our patients achieve true metabolic health.
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Is most Parkinson’s disease man-made and therefore preventable?
According to the Global Burden of Disease study ... the number of people with Parkinson’s disease has more than doubled in the past 25 years,...
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What to tell your patients about anti-amyloids for Alzheimer’s disease
"It's important that we inform our patients that really, even with this therapy, there's no prospect of stabilizing or restoring cognition or...
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Headache after drinking red wine? This could be why
An interesting epidemiologic phenomenon, not yet adequately explained, is why red wine is associated with more headache than other forms of...
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A better way to control blood pressure
For the American medical-industrial complex, lowered costs for managing common serious diseases may be an undesired rather than a good thing.
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A mid-marathon cardiac arrest, an MD’s crisis of confidence
Yes, I just did something great. But I’d recently been called the worst physician in the world.
The Optimized Doctor
Life in the woods
There were no commutes or late patients here. But there was work to be done.
Managing Your Practice
How to develop a patient referral program
Nothing provides as much benefit – relative to its comparatively low cost – as the original marketing tool, word-of-mouth patient referrals.
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The future of medicine is RNA
A single injection that can suppress protein synthesis for an entire year? If it really works, it changes the game.