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IBM makes Watson the size of a pizza box, starts offering cloud access to doctors
2013-02-12 13:07:47| Extremetech
IBM's Watson is smaller and sleeker than ever.
Canadian Doctors Urged to Fight Climate Change
2013-02-11 16:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Scientists began talking seriously about some dangers of climate change more than 30 years ago -- rising seas, changing weather patterns, more rain in rainy places and more drought in dry places, and more. But the risks that lie outside their areas of expertise have taken longer to draw attention -- especially in the area of human health. That has started to change, however, as medical professionals have begun to understand how a changing climate could lead to all sorts public health problems --...
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Flu patients flood doctors' offices, emergency rooms
2013-01-15 16:32:31| Biotech - Topix.net
A client gets ready to get her flu shot Monday at the Wicomico County Health Department from Olivia Butler, RN, Immunization supervisor for the health department.
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02.17: Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients
2013-01-15 00:37:55| Powells Books Events Calendar
Medicine is broken. We like to imagine that it's based on evidence and the results of fair tests. In reality, those tests are often profoundly flawed. We like to imagine that doctors are familiar with the research literature surrounding a drug, when in reality much of the research is hidden from them by drug companies. We like to imagine that regulators let only effective drugs onto the market, when in reality they approve hopeless drugs, with data on side effects casually withheld from doctors and patients. Dr. Ben Goldacre shows that the true scale of this murderous disaster fully reveals itself only when the details are untangled. With his characteristic flair and a forensic attention to detail, Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients (Faber & Faber) reveals a shockingly broken system and calls for something to be done.
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Merck steers doctors away from HDL cholesterol drug
2013-01-11 18:06:36| Biotech - Topix.net
U.S. drugmaker Merck & Co said it is taking steps to suspend availability of its drug Tredaptive after the medicine, used to raise "good" HDL cholesterol, failed to prevent heart problems in a large study.
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