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Rhode Island Plastic Surgeon Returns From Delivering ASAPS Lectures on ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Dr. Sullivan now serves as a faculty member at Brown University's School of Medicine and has been named in Woodward and White's "Best Doctors in America" as one of the "Top Plastic Surgeons." He has also been named in the Castle Connolly Guide to ...

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Kansas Facial Plastic Surgeons Say Spring "Tune-Ups" Are Gaining Popularity
MarketWatch (press release)
At their Kansas City facial plastic surgery practice, KU Facial Plastic Surgery, Drs. J. David Kriet and Clinton Humphrey say patients are also migrating to medical practitioners for cosmetic "tune-ups" that can enhance the youthful, vibrant tone of ...

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Experts explain why PSA test is not worth risk
Statesman Journal
Men concerned about prostate cancer can still ask for the PSA, says Ian Thompson, a urologist and spokesman for the American Urological Association. The task force's recommendation notes that doctors should "understand the evidence but individualize ...

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U.S. News & World Report

Doctors often unfamiliar with long-term chemo risks
Reuters
* Few doctors could name main risks from common drugs-study * US survey shows need for better primary doctor education By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO, May 16 (Reuters) - Many of the 12 million Americans who have beaten cancer get routine care from ...
PCPs Highly Unaware of Long-Term Chemotherapy Side EffectsOncLive

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Toronto Star

All Routine PSA Tests For Prostate Cancer Should End, Task Force Says
NPR (blog)
by Richard Knox There they go again ? those 17 federally appointed experts at the US Preventive Services Task Force are telling American doctors and patients to stop routinely doing lifesaving tests. Or at least that's the way some people look at the ...
PSA test for prostate cancer "does more harm than good"GlobalPost
PSA Screening Benefits Few, Harms Many, Says PanelMedical News Today
Expert Panel: PSA Screening No Good for MenNewser

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Cloud Medical Doctor Software Corporation, a leading provider of ?Cloud Based ...
Houston Chronicle
Doctors Network of America (DNA) is a leading provider of Physician billing and consulting services to healthcare providers in Mississippi. Doctors Network of America provides personalized medical billing services to fit your practice's specific needs ...

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When it comes to Hugo Chavez's health, a Florida doctor 'knows'
Bellingham Herald
But in Latin American media circles, Marquina plays the role of de-facto doctor to Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's president and cancer patient. Over the last four months, Marquina has emerged as one of the few - along with a former US State Department ...



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US patients report inferior care
FierceHealthcare
Not only are sick Americans facing serious financial problems from high healthcare costs (43 percent), but many are experiencing problems with healthcare quality, according to a new poll released yesterday by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, ...
Your Stories Of Being Sick Inside The US Health Care SystemNPR (blog)
Your Stories Of Being Sick Inside The U.S. Health Care SystemKERA News
Many Sick Americans Experience Significant Financial ProblemsThe FINANCIAL

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Panel's PSA test recommendations spark debate among doctors, cancer survivors
CBS News
Reaction following the announcement has been mixed among the medical community and patients. CBS News medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook reported on the CBS Evening News on Monday that yesterday's announcement sparked fury at the American Urological ...
Recommendation against prostate screening shakes medicinePhiladelphia Inquirer
Prostate cancer screening's false promiseCNN
Expert Medical Panel Urges Doctors To Stop PSA Cancer ScreeningsRedOrbit
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USA TODAY

Lung cancer CT scans: Just for older heavy smokers
BusinessWeek
The guidelines were published online Sunday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. An estimated 226000 Americans will be diagnosed with lung cancer this year. It is the leading cause of cancer deaths for US men and women.
Medical groups revise lung cancer CT screening guidelinesFierceHealthIT
'Lung Cancer CT Screening Guidelines Revised'Medical News Today
ATS: Benefits/Harms of Low-Dose CT Screening AssessedDoctors Lounge
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Medical schools close to reaching long-term enrollment goals
American Medical News
The nation's allopathic medical schools are on track to increase enrollment by close to a 30% goal set by the Assn. of American Medical Colleges six years ago. But future physician shortages won't be alleviated unless more graduate medical education ...
AAMC Supports GME Reform BillBecker's Hospital Review

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"Alfalfa to Ivy": Memoir of a Harvard Medical School Dean
Boston.com
He has written a compelling personal history of US academic medicine since the 1970s that honestly confronts many of the controversies and conflicts afflicting our medical system, especially the conflicts of interest between American medicine and the ...

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Native Americans rally over surgical scars that some say show letters KKK ...
Washington Post
This is going to end today,? American Indian Movement founder Dennis Banks said to a roaring crowd before leading the supporters on a more than two-mile long march from a Rapid City plaza to the hospital where the surgery happened .

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Dallas Rhinoplasty Surgeon Delivers Lectures at Annual ASAPS Meeting
MarketWatch (press release)
DALLAS, TX, May 22, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Jack P. Gunter, MD, a plastic surgeon in Dallas, recently returned from delivering several presentations at the 2012 Aesthetic Meeting for the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) ...
Rhode Island Plastic Surgeon Returns From Delivering ASAPS Lectures on ...SYS-CON Media (press release)

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Palm Beach Post

Kansas Facial Plastic Surgeons Say Spring "Tune-Ups" Are Gaining Popularity
MarketWatch (press release)
According to the most recently released study from the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (AAFPRS), a rising trend in aesthetic procedures is improved patient education about plastic surgery, including the various procedures ...
Dr. J Puts a Human Face on Plastic SurgerySacramento Bee
Ask the Plastic Surgeon: Common questions about breast implantsPalm Beach Post
Dr. Babak Azizzadeh Recognized as a ?Top Doctor?Albany Times Union

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Cuban American doctor from Miami is a face transplant leader
MiamiHerald.com
By Alfonso Chardy Behind the most extensive face transplant to date is the hand of Eduardo D. Rodríguez, a Miami-born Cuban-American surgeon. On March 19 and 20, Richard Lee Norris, 37, horribly disfigured by an accidental gunshot wound in 1997, ...



Dallas Rhinoplasty Surgeon Delivers Lectures at Annual ASAPS Meeting
MarketWatch (press release)
DALLAS, TX, May 22, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Jack P. Gunter, MD, a plastic surgeon in Dallas, recently returned from delivering several presentations at the 2012 Aesthetic Meeting for the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) ...
Rhode Island Plastic Surgeon Returns From Delivering ASAPS Lectures on ...SYS-CON Media (press release)

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Palm Beach Post

Kansas Facial Plastic Surgeons Say Spring "Tune-Ups" Are Gaining Popularity
MarketWatch (press release)
According to the most recently released study from the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (AAFPRS), a rising trend in aesthetic procedures is improved patient education about plastic surgery, including the various procedures ...
Dr. J Puts a Human Face on Plastic SurgerySacramento Bee
Ask the Plastic Surgeon: Common questions about breast implantsPalm Beach Post
Dr. Babak Azizzadeh Recognized as a ?Top Doctor?Albany Times Union

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Never Say Never to Plastic Surgery: Orlando Mother of Three on Mommy Makeover
MarketWatch (press release)
Dr. Jon Paul Trevisani is certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and a member of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, Florida Society of ...

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Los Angeles Colon and Rectal Surgical Associates Named Super Doctors of 2012 ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Dr. Hoffman is an Editor of General Surgery News and is a frequent contributor for a range of peer-review publications, including American Surgeon and Diseases of the Colon and Rectum. He is a member of The American College of Surgeons, The American ...

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Four Canadian Difference Makers featured in new stamp series
PR Newswire (press release)
A Companion of the Order of Canada, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and grande officière de l'Ordre national du Québec, she has received countless international awards as well as honourary doctorates from 30 ...

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Experimental bariatric surgery controls blood sugar in rodents with diabetes ...
Science Daily (press release)
No studies have yet reported on surgical interventions as treatments for patients with type 1 diabetes. "More than two million Canadians have diabetes. Diabetes is an epidemic in Canada and around the world that is growing at an alarming rate," says ...

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OxyNEO another prescription for disaster?
Canada.com
More than two months after one of the most abused drugs in modern medicine - OxyContin - was taken off the market, there are signs that Canadian drug users are trying to adapt and to fill the void that's been left. On websites, drug users are sharing ...

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More about Single Payer
Futurehealth
That wouldn't have happened in Canada, or, at least, not in Saskatchewan. He would have been judged too ill for bypass surgery and would have been put on palliative care. Surgeons, however, make much less money in Canada than in the United States, ...

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New Research Shows 'Older' Vasectomy Reversal Worthwhile; Valid Alternative To ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Research presented at American Urological Association in Atlanta, Georgia tomorrow The Turek Clinic research shows outcomes after reversal of older vasectomies much better than previously thought timely given recent New England Journal of Medicine ...

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New Studies Confirm Given Imaging's PillCam(R) COLON 2's Feasibility in an ...
MarketWatch (press release)
... data evaluating its viability as an out-of-clinic procedure. The studies are being presented at the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) Research Forum at Digestive Disease Week(R) (DDW), taking place May 19-22 in San Diego.
Given Imaging Announces Significant New Data on PillCam(R) SB at DDWSYS-CON Media (press release)

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Zee News

72 % of Teenagers Experienced Reduced Hearing Ability After Attending Concert
MarketWatch (press release)
M. Jennifer Derebery, MD, House Clinic physician, along with the House Research Institute tested teens' hearing before and after a concert and presented the study findings at the American Otologic Society meeting on April 21, 2012.
Did your ears go gaga after watching Lady Gaga?Rappler

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Daily News - Galveston County

Group, clinic reach out to stroke patients
Daily News - Galveston County
According to the American Heart Association, about 795000 Americans will suffer a stroke this year. In addition to being a leading cause of death, stroke is also the foremost cause of long-term, serious disability. In fact, six months after a stroke: ...