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Certain common herbicides and lipid-lowering fibrate drugs act in humans to block a nutrient-sensing taste receptor also present in intestine and pancreas.

Read updates from the FDA about oncology drug approvals, clinical trials, and committee rulings.

Odd wording, but nurses seem to know exactly what is meant by this statement.

We all know the current story with Primary Care. Myself? I got out over a year ago. I am now a Hospitalist. Shorter hours, better pay, way less paper work. No call. No hassle.

During the First Annual National Coalition of Oncology Nurse Navigators Conference, Colleen Lemoine, APRN, MN, AOCN, Clinical Nurse Specialist for Oncology, Interim Louisiana State University Public Hospital, New Orleans, led a dynamic session that reviewed the importance of self-care in oncology nursing.

At the First Annual National Coalition of Oncology Nurse Navigators Conference, held in Baltimore, Maryland, on October 10, Harold P. Freeman, MD, President and Founder, Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention, Senior Advisor to the Director, National Cancer Institute, New York City, outlined the crucial role that oncology nurse navigators play in improving outcomes in patients with cancer.

At a healthcare forum hosted by Politics magazine, current and former members of Congress said they believed President Obama would sign some sort of a healthcare reform package, most likely later this year. “There would be too much political damage done if something doesn’t pass, so Congress will find a way,” said Congressman Michael Burgess, MD (R-TX).

As the media continues to ruminate on the tragic results of violence among youth in Chicago’s south side, I think it might be worth looking at violence in our society as a whole. A new study from the University of New Hampshire suggests that we have yet to really appreciate the amount of violence many children are exposed to.

Children with certain psychiatric conditions, such as ADHD, social phobia, hostility, and depression, may be more likely to suffer from Internet addiction, show the results of a new study.

Hospitals now focus on how soon a patient will be discharged.

Professionals should educate and monitor their pain patients' use of alcohol according to a University of Florida study which found that use of alcohol as a pain management strategy was consistent across the three patient groups, ranging from 25 to 28 percent. Use was more prevalent in men and corresponded to higher income levels.

Bipolar disorder may be a condition that afflicted patients eventually outgrow, according to a new study from the University of Missouri.

The ways in which parents and peers influence teenagers to smoke, drink, and use more than one harmful substance at once are significant, researchers at Cornell University’s Weill Cornell Medical College have found, and this impact differs in boys and girls.

Achieving patient-centered care is difficult, yet essential; paternalism is, of course, out.

It appears that IT solutions are being credited for significant reductions in medical errors. The Leapfrog Group for Patient Safety has awarded perfect scores to Phoenix Children’s Hospital for avoiding medical errors and reducing ICU infections, and very high scores for avoiding harm.

Playing this weird but popular game led to the suspension of hospital staff.

Do you have poor cellular reception or coverage at your office? If so, the MicroCell from AT&T can help. It effectively provides 5 full bars of coverage in any small office.

Screening and treatment for diabetes-like conditions provoked by pregnancy resulted in fewer cesarean sections and other birthing problems conducted by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units Network.

After investigating the 2006 deaths of three patients in their treatment of pain using intrathecal infusion pumps containing opioids, researchers are confident that such future complications are preventable.

Specialists in gynecologic cancer recognize that women diagnosed with ovarian cancer, particularly late ovarian cancer, do face significant odds that their disease will recur.

What is the best way to draw an activated partial thromboplastin time when a patient is receiving heparin therapy and has a central venous catheter?

Researchers have discovered a new way to use the role of signaling molecules to inhibit another complex that plays a key role in the ‘turning on’ of genes “that cause the stem cell precursors of osteoclasts to mature and start eating bone,” a discovery that may lead to the formation of new rheumatoid arthritis and osteoporosis drugs.

Individuals who go to work with a migraine, with the thought that it is better to “endure the pain” and stay at work, are actually less productive than individuals who stay home because of a migraine, with the level of productivity while suffering from a migraine is impacted by whether the migraine is chronic or episodic, the results of two new studies show.

Results from the PROSPECT trial "shed new light on the types of vulnerable plaque that are most likely to cause sudden, unexpected adverse cardiac events, and on the ability to identify them through imaging techniques before they occur."

A majority of children and adolescents with bipolar disorder receive the diagnosis late, and many receive other diagnoses—such as behavioral disorder and depression—before bipolar disorder is correctly identified, according to new research from the University Hospital of Navarra and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).

Using an experimental drug, Thomas Jefferson University researchers were able to prevent heterotopic ossification in animal models, giving hope that human treatments will follow for this disease affecting up to 70 percent of severely-wounded soldiers.

There are two manuscripts of note regarding cognitive function and cognitive decline in this week's issue of the journal Neurology. While I have commented previously about various aspects of dementia, cognitive decline and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) are more common and the latter may be a precursor to dementia.

Welcome to the brave new world created by health insurance companies in Massachusetts—where all the doctors are to be above average—or their patients will be financially punished.

I say we should let those who are screaming against the health insurance reform bills because they're "Socialist" opt out - not just from the bills, but also from ALL of "Socialism."

Patients with celiac disease and related disorders are at a slightly increased risk of death when compared to patients without any problems due to celiac disease or related conditions.