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Medical and health information for health professionals, patients and families. Information about hospitals, diseases, injuries, health care, surgery and infections.
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MDOfficeNet : Windstone Communications helps improve the patient’s waiting room experience, by providing interesting, entertaining, and educational video programming with MD Officenet™ A member of The Windstone Group of healthcare management companies, Windstone Communications, Inc., has partnered with the most important members of the narrowcast digital signage industry, such as Samsung displays, EDR Media, and Real Digital Media to create the most innovative
Federal Consumer Information Center Health : Federal health publications from FCIC in Pueblo, CO.
Food and Drug Administration Easy-to-Read Publications : Health and safety brochures in English and Spanish.
Health-Nexus : Informational site offering links to sites in all aspects of health and fitness.
Multi-cultural Educational Services : These multi-lingual booklets were developed to provide information to newcomers in Minnesota. Multi-Cultural Educational Services created these materials in collaboration with Anoka County Community ...
MedicineNet : Patient focused site covering over 400 conditions and diseases, more than 100 tests and procedures, and a medical dictionary of over 6500 terms. Original content provided from a network of over 40 doc...
Essential Guide to Prescription Drugs : Offers people information about how to help avoid problems with medicines as well as limited scope fee-for-service answers to questions and book sales.
Virtual Hospital : The Virtual Hospital is a digital health sciences library at the University of Iowa, containing over 350 peer-reviewed books and brochures accessible through the Iowa Health Book.
Washington State Medical Association: Patient Brochures : Patient brochures on a variety of health and social topics available online or free by mail to organizations and Washington state hospitals or clinics.
MediMall : Free medical information portal with e-commerce business affiliations offering medical books and a medical PDA resource centre.
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Medical association backs health system reform (AP)
AP - The American Medical Association on Monday rebuffed dissident members and voted to stick with support for ongoing health reform efforts, while reiterating wariness over proposals that threaten doctors' pocketbooks and independence. |
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FDA Issues Warning for Diabetes Drug (HealthDay)
HealthDay - TUESDAY, Nov. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Reports about possible kidney
problems, including renal failure, in people taking the diabetes drug
exenatide (Byetta) have prompted changes to the drug's prescribing
information, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Monday. |
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Psychotherapy Beats Light Treatment for SAD (HealthDay)
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Oct. 29 (HealthDay News) -- As daylight hours dwindle,
people with seasonal affective disorder (SAD) can often feel the onset of
wintertime depression, but a new study suggests one type of remedy may
work better than another at banishing the SAD blues. |
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Diet, Exercise Thwart Diabetes: Study (HealthDay)
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Oct. 28 (HealthDay News) -- Diet and exercise can keep
diabetes at bay for a decade, cutting the risk for the disease by more
than a third in the most susceptible people, a new study finds. |
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Health Tip: Use Cosmetics Safely (HealthDay)
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Cosmetics may seem relatively harmless, but
preservatives and fragrances added to these products are a frequent cause
of skin problems, the National Women's Health Information Center says.
Scratching the eye when applying mascara also is a common problem. |
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Scientists Spot How Sugar 'Feeds' Tumors (HealthDay)
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Aug. 20 (HealthDay News) -- New information about how
sugar "feeds" tumors has been uncovered by U.S. researchers, who said the
finding may also have implications for other diseases such as
diabetes. |
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