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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
'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
CRT Bivalirudin Safe After Fondaparinux in PCI Patients
Heartwire, February 7, 2012
CRT Braile Biomedica Launches Transapical Valve
Heartwire, February 7, 2012
CRT CTO Bodes Ill in NSTEMI Patients
Heartwire, February 7, 2012
Generalists Need Education on HF Treatment
Heartwire, February 7, 2012
Ovarian Cancer Screening Popular Despite Guidelines
Reuters Health Information, February 7, 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
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
Tired of Being a Doctor? Choices for Opting Out of Medicine
Article, February 2012
Screening for PAH in Systemic Sclerosis: Does It Matter?
Viewpoint, February 2012

Real doctors just aren't that interesting
From Doctors Orders , Posted at 11:04:31, February 4. 1 Comment
Pretty major boob
From Doctors Orders , Posted at 16:36:30, January 16. 6 Comments
Why some complaints are just Richard Gere, with a Gerbil
From Doctors Orders , Posted at 13:08:50, December 14. 6 Comments
The Last Physician to have Influence in Washington
From Weekend Call , Posted at 00:03:32, February 6. 0 Comments
Epidural and Missouri Civil Rights
From The Verdict Is In , Posted at 11:25:54, February 2. 26 Comments

Alert Combination Type 2 Diabetes Pill Gets FDA Nod
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
News Alerts, December 23, 2011
Alert House and Senate Give Nod to Medicare Pay Cut Postponement
Medscape Medical News, December 23, 2011

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