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Osteoporosis prevention requires adequate calcium and vitamin D intake, regular physical activity, and avoidance of smoking and excessive alcohol ingestion.
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A recent survey highlights yet another obstacle to managing diabetes.
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The Internet is a wealth of information for people in all professions. So it is not surprising that patient education managers have favorite web sites they turn to time and time again.
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The Society for Adolescent Medicine (SAM) issued a position statement rejecting current administration policy promoting abstinence-only education for young people, ...
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Radiographs are a two-dimensional representation of a series of x-ray beams projected through a three-dimensional object.
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Finalizing a merger first disclosed in August 2005, medical device reprocessors Alliance Medical (Phoenix) and Vanguard Medical Concepts (Lakeland, Florida) reported that they have become Ascent Healthcare Solutions (AHS), which describes itself as the leading independent third-party reprocessor of single-use medical devices (SUDs).
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The 31st annual meeting of the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR; Fairfax, Virginia) covered new developments in a wide range of areas, consistent with the expanding range of minimally invasive therapies provided by interventional radiologists and the diversity of the technologies employed in the field.
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The idea of patient safety is not a novel concept, but in the years since the publication of the 1999 report by the Institute of Medicine (IOM; Washington) that laid the blame for 44,000 to 98,000 hospital deaths each year on deficient medical care, patient safety has taken on an urgency perhaps not seen since Hippocrates issued the imperative "First, do no harm."
