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Continuity of care with your family doctor may reduce risk of death according to study
Health Headlines Commentary for July 3, 2018 Source: Seeing the same doctor over time ‘lowers death rates’ Reference: Continuity of care with doctors—a matter of life and death? A systematic review of continuity of care and mortality BMJ Open/ Published online June 28 2018 Analysis: Seeing same doctor every time ‘reduces risk of death’
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Is there any science supporting intermittent fasting as a means of reducing disease? Not from this fluff piece.
Health Headlines Commentary for June 29 , 2018 Source: What to know about intermittent fasting: Is it right for you?
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Insulin pill, if it is ever developed, will likely face some significant real-life obstacles to use
Health Headlines Commentary for June 28, 2018 Source: Insulin pill instead of shot: How close are we for diabetes patients?
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Wednesday House Call, June 27, 2018: To your health! Hot dog water down the hatch!
Wednesday House Call, June 27, 2018: To your health! Hot dog water down the hatch! Dr Barry Dworkin joins Rob Snow to discuss the latest health stories of the week. Today: Hot dog water marketed to prove a pseudoscience point. Should C-sections be done when no medical reason exists just because the patient wants one?…
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Federal Government asking pharma to stop marketing opioids
Health Headlines Commentary for June 27, 2018 Source: Ottawa asks drug companies to stop marketing opioids
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C. difficile infection rates dropping at Canadian hospitals
Health Headlines Commentary for June 26, 2018 Source: ‘Remarkable drop’ in C. difficile infections at Canadian hospitals Reference: The evolving epidemiology of Clostridium difficile infection in Canadian hospitals during a postepidemic period (2009–2015)
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No study, just hypothesis that the amino acid arginine found in hemp (and produced in abundance by your own healthy body) can lead to high blood pressure treatment. Good luck with a compound that has a half-life of 2-6 seconds.
Health Headlines Commentary for June 25, 2018 Source: Hemp protein could positively affect high blood pressure: Study Reference: No study published.
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Excellent basic science study looks at certain viruses as a contributing factor to the development of Alheimer’s
Health Headlines Commentary for June 22, 2018 Source: New evidence that viruses may play a role in Alzheimer’s Reference: Multiscale Analysis of Independent Alzheimer’s Cohorts Finds Disruption of Molecular, Genetic, and Clinical Networks by Human Herpesvirus
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Mouse study shows that caffeine can stimulate diabetes drug release from implant. Overhype drives this article and raises questions how you would control caffeine dosing and why use it in the first place.
Health Headlines Commentary for June 21, 2018 Source: Could coffee replace insulin injections for diabetics? Reference: Caffeine-inducible gene switches controlling experimental diabetes