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Image via Wikipedia A recent study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology shows that training doctors in the delivery of bad news to dying patients significantly improves their ability to communicate this kind of bad news. This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. What is a surprise is how infrequent and poorly conducted […] Image via Wikipedia A new technology based around using carbon nanotubes for water filtration apparently shows some real promise at solving the problem of hormones and pharmaceutical drugs contaminating water supplies. Both of these kinds of drugs are getting into water supplies all over the world and they are not easily removed by […] Image via Wikipedia Two recent trials of herbal remedies highlight why it is important to do studies of their effectiveness rather than just blindly trusting that they will work and be safe because they are ‘natural.’ The first is a trial in China of a traditional remedy as part of a regimen for […] Image via Wikipedia Let’s take quick look back at the history of chickenpox.Prior to 1996, there was no vaccine and chickenpox was one of those diseases where a few kids in a community would get it and then it would run through the community and everyone would have a few bad days and […] Image via Wikipedia There must be a significant astrological congruence of some kind – or maybe it’s just more drugs in our water – but just recently there has been a spate of health new of the weird or just gross. Not all the news is bad, but some of it is very […] It’s been a little while since I last wrote about Cholera in Haiti. Unfortunately, the LA Times is reporting that with the return of the rainy season, Cholera is back in Haiti in force with 1,000 new cases a day being logged in June. And despite an initial surge after the outbreak to help by […] |
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