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AAOS Half of Older Women With Arm Fractures Have Low Vitamin D Significantly more postmenopausal women with distal radius fractures than control women were found to have vitamin D deficiency or insufficiency.
Medscape Medical News, February 7, 2012
Individual-Mandate Foes Warn of Affordable 'Car' Act In a brief filed with the Supreme Court, state officials opposed to the Affordable Care Act said the individual mandate to obtain health insurance presages mandates to buy cars and other goods.
Medscape Medical News, February 7, 2012
Marathoners Who Go the Distance 100 Times or More For most people, running one marathon is a daunting prospect, but research scientist Leslie Miller belongs to group of runners who have completed 100 or more marathons, many of them just for the fun of it.
Reuters Health Information, February 7, 2012
Restricted Feeding: No Improved Outcomes of Acute Lung Injury For patients with acute lung injury on mechanical ventilation, restricting the amount of enteral nutrition provided does not reduce the number of days on the ventilator or other outcomes.
Reuters Health Information, February 7, 2012
Dual Antiplatelet Therapy Reduces Stroke Recurrence Risk
Reuters Health Information, February 7, 2012
Longer Retinopathy Screen Interval May Be Safe in Diabetes
Reuters Health Information, February 7, 2012
Child Abuse Experts Calls for US Campaign
Reuters Health Information, February 7, 2012
Parents Urge More Tests as Twitches Spread at New York School
Reuters Health Information, February 7, 2012
Many Kids Still Exposed to Secondhand Smoke in Cars
Reuters Health Information, February 7, 2012
'Malaria Cure' Claim Sparks Vienna Probe
Reuters Health Information, February 7, 2012
Green Tea Drinkers Show Less Disability With Age
Reuters Health Information, February 7, 2012
Vorapaxar Meets End Point But Ups Bleeding
Heartwire, February 7, 2012

Syncope and Fever in the ED: What's the Cause?
Clinical Case, February 2012
Do Statins Prevent Cardiovascular Disease in Arthritis?
Viewpoint, February 2012
Variant H3N2 Influenza Virus: What You Should Know
Commentary, February 2012
Is Losing Weight by Remote Control Effective?
Commentary, February 2012
Why Does the QRS Morphology Change?
Case Challenge, February 2012
Women, Diabetes, and Cardiovascular Risk
Viewpoint, February 2012
Judicious Urinary Tract Imaging in Pediatric UTI
Viewpoint, February 2012
EMR: Efficiency Mauled Repeatedly
Commentary, February 2012
Improved Outcomes in Acute Stroke: An Effective Protocol
Commentary, February 2012
The Resurgence of Measles: Guidance for Clinicians
Article, February 2012

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The Last Physician to have Influence in Washington
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Alert Combination Type 2 Diabetes Pill Gets FDA Nod
FDA Approvals, January 31, 2012
Alert FDA Approves New Drug for a Form of Cystic Fibrosis
FDA Approvals, January 31, 2012
Alert Once-Weekly Exenatide Okayed by FDA for T2DM After Long Look
FDA Approvals, January 27, 2012
Alert FDA Okays Pneumococcal Vaccine for Older Adults
FDA Approvals, January 3, 2012
Alert J&J Pulls 12 Million Motrin Bottles From Shelves
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