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People with brain injuries may produce low amounts of melatonin, which affects their sleep, according to a study published in the May 25, 2010, print issue of Neurology the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. For the study, 23 people who had a severe traumatic brain injury an average of 14 months earlier and 23 healthy people of the same age spent two nights in a sleep laboratory. “We’ve known that people often have problems with sleep after a brain injury, but we haven’t known much about the exact causes of these problems,” said study author Shantha...

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Republican Senator Will Vote For Health Care

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imeIdI087S8 Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe says she will vote for a Democratic health care bill, breaking with her party on President Barack Obama’s top legislative item.

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10 Steps to Stay Healthy in Hard Economic Times

10 Steps to Stay Healthy in Hard Economic Times

“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.”  was first found as a Welsh folk proverb (1866) ‘Eat an apple on going to bed,/ And you’ll keep the doctor from earning his bread.’ First attested in the United States in 1913 After many months of wondering, we finally have confirmation that weâ’re in a recession. Unfortunately, that means spending less on necessities and eliminating what we now consider to be luxuries. But during these tough economic times, the Institute for Good Medicine and the physician members of the Pennsylvania Medical Society urge you to protect your greatest asset â’“...

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President Bush Kills Hippocratic Oath

President Bush Kills Hippocratic Oath

Here is the new Bush Hippocratic Oath I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:  I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow. I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism. I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon’s knife or the...

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Prescription Drugs Cost More in Poor Areas

Prescription Drugs Cost More in Poor Areas

Four of the most widely prescribed drugs in the United States can cost 15 percent more on average in the poorest neighborhoods of Florida, according to a study comparing retail pharmacy prices around the state. Part of the explanation is the high proportion of independent pharmacies in poor ZIP codes that charge the highest prices for Nexium, Advair, Plavix and azithromycin, said Walid Gellad, lead study author and an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. In contrast, the study shows that chain pharmacies are less expensive and less likely to vary their prices based on ZIP...

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