To Your Health: NLM update: Preventing disease spillover from animals to humans
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The prevention of disease transmission from animals to humans begins by careful surveillance of the sources of potential risks around the world, suggests the Global Director of an early warning system called PREDICT in a recent speech at NLM. (Source: What's New on MedlinePlus)
Source: What's New on MedlinePlus - July 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
July Issue of NIH News in Health Now Available
The July issue of NIH News in Health is now available.
Featured stories include "Safeguarding Our Health: Vaccines Protect Us All" and "A Blurry Worldview: Understanding Myopia". Also, check out the health capsules and the featured Web site. (Source: What's New on MedlinePlus)
Source: What's New on MedlinePlus - July 12, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
To Your Health: NLM update: The road to reproducible research?
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The head of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other speakers at a recent conference suggested the reproducibility of biomedical research might improve if scientists could agree on a definition of 'reproducibility' and if more information about pre-clinical trial research findings was available and widely shared. (Source: What's New on MedlinePlus)
Source: What's New on MedlinePlus - July 5, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
To Your Health: NLM update: Impact of Medical error
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While recent research published in BMJ finds medical errors may be higher than previously reported in the U.S., Healthnewsreview.org notes the study's findings do not necessarily suggest clinical mistakes are a leading cause of death. (Source: What's New on MedlinePlus)
Source: What's New on MedlinePlus - June 27, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
To Your Health: NLM update: Prince and the opioid epidemic
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The recent news that rock musician-Prince died from an accidental, self-administered overdose of fentanyl, a synthetic opiate, is a sad reminder of the degree of current opioid abuse in the U.S. (Source: What's New on MedlinePlus)
Source: What's New on MedlinePlus - June 20, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
To Your Health: NLM update: Workplace violence increases in medical settings
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Workplace violence in health care settings is increasingly common and needs to be addressed by research and better practices, finds a pioneering, national assessment recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine. (Source: What's New on MedlinePlus)
Source: What's New on MedlinePlus - June 17, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
To Your Health: NLM update: NIH MedlinePlus magazine Spring 2016
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The new edition of NIH MedlinePlus Magazine covers fibromyalgia, health disparities, as well as women and heart disease. (Source: What's New on MedlinePlus)
Source: What's New on MedlinePlus - June 7, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
June Issue of NIH News in Health Now Available
The June issue of NIH News in Health is now available.
Featured stories include "Can You Lengthen Your Life?: Researchers Explore How To Stay Healthy Longer" and "Seeking Allergy Relief: When Breathing Becomes Bothersome". Also, check out the health capsules and the featured Web site. (Source: What's New on MedlinePlus)
Source: What's New on MedlinePlus - June 3, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
To Your Health: NLM update: Ethics and health prevention
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The inconsistencies between the willingness to fund cost-ineffective clinical treatments versus cost-effective primary prevention services should be more frequently perceived as a medical ethics issue, notes a stimulating perspective recently published in the New England Journal Medicine. (Source: What's New on MedlinePlus)
Source: What's New on MedlinePlus - May 31, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
To Your Health: NLM update: Endometriosis linked to heart disease
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Endometriosis significantly increases the risk of developing heart disease among women, finds a pioneering, comprehensive study recently published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. (Source: What's New on MedlinePlus)
Source: What's New on MedlinePlus - May 28, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
To Your Health: NLM update: Tobacco 21's health benefits
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The prevention of health problems among young persons would improve significantly if the legal sale of tobacco products switched from age 18 to 21 in the U.S., finds a perspective recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine. (Source: What's New on MedlinePlus)
Source: What's New on MedlinePlus - May 20, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
To Your Health: NLM update: Are thyroid abnormalities common among youth?
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While screening for thyroid illness among young persons who live near the Fukushima nuclear power plant has found nodules or cysts in about half the 300,476 participants, the interpretation of the findings has taken a surprising turn, finds an article recently published in Science. (Source: What's New on MedlinePlus)
Source: What's New on MedlinePlus - May 9, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
