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The Mediterranean Diet and Cardiovascular Disease

The Mediterranean diet represents the most notable overall dietary pattern in nutritional epidemiology that has been ext ...

Filed under: Public Health


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Advanced Practice Providers and Liability Risk

It is a misconception that advanced practice providers (APPs) can't get sued because any errors are a physician's respon ...

Filed under: Health Policy and Trends, NPs & PAs, Practice Management/Career


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National Stop the Bleed Month

Did you know that May 2019 is the first-ever National Stop the Bleed Month? Also, May 23 is the second annual Stop the B ...

Filed under: Health Policy and Trends, Miscellaneous, Preventive Medicine, Public Health


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Lower Cholesterol - The Natural Way

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 95 million US adults aged 20 or older have total cholestero ...

Filed under: Preventive Medicine


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Procalcitonin Levels in the Management of COPD Exa ...

The use of procalcitonin-based protocols to guide the decision to administer antibiotics has been evaluated in infection ...

Filed under: Infectious Diseases, Pulmonary Medicine


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Hypertension in the Pediatric Population

The prevalence of systemic hypertension (HTN) in the pediatric population is now commonly observed to be increasing, esp ...

Filed under: Cardiometabolic, Health Policy and Trends, Preventive Medicine


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It's a Digital World: Screen Time Recommendations ...

We definitely live in a different day and age than when I was a child... As children, my siblings and I just opened the ...

Filed under: Miscellaneous, Preventive Medicine, Public Health


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Using Policy to Impact HPV Vaccine Rates

For more than 10 years we have had a safe and effective vaccine that can prevent several types of cancer. I understand t ...

Filed under: Health Policy and Trends, Infectious Diseases, Preventive Medicine, Women's Health


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Measles Outbreak - A Public Health Concern

The modern world was turned upside down in 1997 when researcher Andrew Wakefield suggested there was a direct correlatio ...

Filed under: Infectious Diseases, Preventive Medicine, Public Health


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