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Monthly Archive for July, 2009

Doctor / Patient Relationships

Kent Bottles MD writing on the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement Blog asks what is the ideal doctor / patient relationship and wonders whether doctors will ever know what truly benefits the patient.

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Cancerconsultants.com spotted a study published in the Annals of Oncology which concudes that early detection of second breast cancers (prior to symptoms) results in a diagnosis of early-stage cancer and improves survival by 27-47%

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The Cocktail Effect

According to the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPSGB) almost half the older population of the UK are taking over five medicines with 60% not understanding the potential dangers

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Silja Chouquet, owner and CEO of whydot pharma interviews Manny Hernandez, president of The Diabetes Hands Foundation, about how pharma should engage with patients who blog.

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A breakthrough technology adapted for breast cancer detection based in part on research originally sponsored by the Office of Naval Research

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Cyberknife story

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Except for a few types of cancer, routine screening has not been proven to reduce the death toll from cancer for people without specific symptoms or risk factors

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Goat Flu

Bob Davidson the editor of inCapitalHealth told the London Assembly meeting that they had their London health priorities wrong by having no policy for pandemic and therefore managed to get the item put onto the agenda

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Scientists now know who’s most likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer and they can also predict who’s most likely not to survive.

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Health care reform in the UK

Burnham recently launched what’s being called the Big Care Debate, a radical reform of care and support services

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