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Disaster preparedness, What we have learned from COVID 19 pandemic [COVID-19]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Despite a joint recommendation in 2003 by the AAMC and CDC that bioterrorism and mass-casualty training be included in the medical school curriculum, few medical schools have incorporated formal disaster training.

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The Massachusetts Avenue of health reform

The Health Policy Exchange

In contrast to the personality-driven path that Lyndon Johnson took to navigate legislative obstacles to Medicare and Medicaid, former management consultant Mitt Romney charted a decidedly different course to expanding health insurance when he became governor of Massachusetts in 2003.

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Cancer Doesn't Discriminate. or Does It? Dr. Rebecca Redman

Louisville Lectures

She graduated from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health in 2003. Watch on YouTube Listen as a Podcast Watch more lectures about Internal Medicine Rebecca Redman, M.D. Dr. Redman is an associated professor at the University of Louisville.

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Higher Dietary Calcium Intake May Up Risk of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia

Physician's Weekly

Hongyuan Chang, from Xiyuan Hospital of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences in Beijing, and colleagues used data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey conducted from 2003 to 2008 to examine the association between dietary calcium intake and the risk of BPH.

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

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Diabetes mellitus: Women are at higher risk of venous thromboembolism than men

Medical Xpress

In total, massive amounts of data from around 45 million hospitalizations and 7,239,710 patients in Austria between 2003 and 2014 were studied.

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What to know about High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)

Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

The Joint National Committee 2003 defines hypertension as systolic of 140 mmHg and higher or diastolic 90 mmHg and higher. Depending on your personal medical history and open discussion with your physician, this will guide your treatment plan. What are some signs and symptoms of Hypertension?