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There are a number of caveats to bear in mind, however. Those results are preliminary and have not yet appeared in a peer-reviewed research journal--although the National Cancer Institute has posted a lot of information on its website cancer.gov/star) Women at high risk of cardiovascular problems were not included in the study since both drugs are known to increase the risk of blood clots. In addition, raloxifene is currently approved only for the treatment and prevention of osteoporosis...
...doctor from the patient. They fear that young doctors don't get the experience they need or build the instincts and muscle memory from performing procedures so many times that they can do them in their sleep. Even the residents may agree: in a 2006 study in the American Journal of Medicine, both residents and attending physicians reported that they thought the risk of bad things happening because of fragmentation of care was greater than the risk from fatigue due to excess work hours. Other residents say that while they may feel more rested, they sense that they...
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...Harvard study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that mercury-containing tooth fillings—known as amalgams—do not have adverse affects on a child’s neuropsychological and kidney functions. The study, published Wednesday, was met with criticism as physicians at other institutions decried the “outrageous human experiment on indigent and orphaned children,” according to a press release from the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology (IAOMT). “What they did is flat out wrong. Harvard is high quality. This...
Doctors may soon be able to better predict whether breast cancer patients will respond well to chemotherapy, the results of a recent study conducted in part by Harvard Medical School affiliates at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute suggest. The study, which appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association last week, “add[s] to a growing body of evidence that breast cancer is not one homogeneous disease, but rather a disease with many subtypes and requires a variety of new treatment approaches,” lead author Eric P. Winer, who is associate professor...