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How to Improve Your Health with Chocolate

The People's Pharmacy

Lower Risk of Type 2 Diabetes or Elevated Liver Enzymes: An observational study demonstrated that people who eat a small portion of chocolate daily are less likely to develop type 2 diabetes or elevated liver enzymes ( British Journal of Nutrition , online March 17, 2016 ). It is Show 1307: Cocoa Compounds and the COSMOS Trial.

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Herpes zoster infection increases risk of stroke and coronary heart disease

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

Being infected with herpes zoster increases the long term risk of a major cardiovascular event such as a stroke and the development of coronary heart disease, according to an analysis from three large, prospective studies by researchers from Harvard Medical School, Boston, US. Herpes zoster infection and cardiovascular events.

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The Bus, The Car and The Bike: Explaining Intersectionality

InCrowd

The Oxford handbook of feminist theory: Oxford University Press; 2016. She is an Associate Director CCEP & Thoracic Oncologist at Dana Farber and Harvard Medical School , the Co-Founder of @ LatinasinMed , and the Founder of @Florez Lab. Figure 1: Intersectionality from the eyes of a Latina young physician. Zinn MB, Dill BT.

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Why are my palms itchy?

The Checkup by Singlecare

Still, sometimes itchy palms are a sign of something that requires medical attention. Itchy palms are more of a symptom than a diagnosis,” says Cindy Wassef, MD, a dermatologist at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. There are several reasons someone might have itchy palms. What drives people to scratch an itch?

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Female Providers, A Unique Perspective: Part 2

InCrowd

2019 was also the first year that more than half of medical school students were female at 50.5%. 3 With an aging physician workforce, and increasing numbers of female physicians, residents, and medical students, the stage is set for meaningful change for our patients, colleagues, and ourselves. in 2007 to 36.3% Griffith, K.A.,

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Opinion: U.S. medical schools aren’t teaching future doctors about 7.4 million of their patients

STAT

After his death in 2016, his mother, Paula, launched a campaign to mandate training on intellectual disability and autism for health care workers. needs to follow suit, starting with medical schools. A few days later, Oliver suffered a lethal neurological side effect. A week later, he was taken off life support.

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Why early participant engagement is now a top priority in genetic disease research

pharmaphorum

In 2016, scientists behind a study called the Resilience Project analysed genetic data from 589,000+ people and found 13 adults who carried genetic variants that should have resulted in serious – even deadly – childhood disease, but who were apparently healthy.