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From MedPage Today: Health IT: 'We Were Bound To Be Disappointed'. Robert Wachter, MD, works an hour north of Silicon Valley. Being surrounded by an "incredibly dynamic, vibrant IT ecosystem" contributed to a sense of disconnect for the associate chairman…
From MedPage Today:
- Health IT: ‘We Were Bound To Be Disappointed’. Robert Wachter, MD, works an hour north of Silicon Valley. Being surrounded by an “incredibly dynamic, vibrant IT ecosystem” contributed to a sense of disconnect for the associate chairman of medicine at the University of California San Francisco.
- Americans Miss WHO
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Top stories in health and medicine, April 10, 2015
From MedPage Today: Guidelines Loosen BP Targets in Heart Disease. Treatment should target under 140/90 mmHg for most hypertensive patients with known heart disease, according to new guidelines from the American Heart Association (AHA), the American College of Cardiology (ACC),…
From MedPage Today:
- Guidelines Loosen BP Targets in Heart Disease. Treatment should target under 140/90 mmHg for most hypertensive patients with known heart disease, according to new guidelines from the American Heart Association (AHA), the American College of Cardiology (ACC), and the American Society of Hypertension (ASH).
- Constipation Emergencies on the Rise.
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Top stories in health and medicine, April 2, 2015
From MedPage Today: Brain Cancer: Did '60 Minutes' Report Raise False Hope? A glioblastoma therapy touted in a "60 Minutes" report that aired Sunday evening, focusing on the use of the polio virus to treat glioblastoma, isn’t a particularly new…
From MedPage Today:
- Brain Cancer: Did ’60 Minutes’ Report Raise False Hope? A glioblastoma therapy touted in a “60 Minutes” report that aired Sunday evening, focusing on the use of the polio virus to treat glioblastoma, isn’t a particularly new idea and results are still unpublished — but some oncologists are worried that patients might
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Top stories in health and medicine, April 1, 2015
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