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GeneSight® Mental Health Monitor Results

Myriad Genetics

The majority of these patients (54%) agree that genetic testing for mental health medications (known as pharmacogenomic or PGx testing) could reduce these concerns. The majority of these patients (54%) agree that genetic testing for mental health medications (known as pharmacogenomic or PGx testing) could reduce these concerns.

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What to know about High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)

Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

Depending on your personal medical history and open discussion with your physician, this will guide your treatment plan. The Joint National Committee 2003 defines hypertension as systolic of 140 mmHg and higher or diastolic 90 mmHg and higher. At that time, you may need to start to incorporate blood pressure medications.

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Doctor who exposed China's 2003 SARS cover-up dies at 91

Medical Xpress

The doctor who exposed China's cover-up of the SARS epidemic in 2003 has died aged 91, his family confirmed on Wednesday.

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Influential women in the history of medicine

Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

200-400 AD) Metrodora, a Greek female physician, wrote On the Diseases and Cures of Women, the oldest medical text known to be written by a woman. Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) British-born Elizabeth Blackwell is best known as the first woman to earn an medical degree (MD) in the US. Metrodora (c.

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The Roots of Palliative Care: Michael Kearney, Sue Britton, and Justin Sanders

GeriPal

Yes, it means to cloak, but theres more Whole-person-care Total pain Healing as a process distinct from the deterioration of the body Sympomatologists The patient and family as the unit of care Our guests referenced many articles on this podcast, linked above and below. You’re a disgruntled medical student. It’s 1974.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

Raj: It was indeed very, very gradual, and the seeds were sown when I was a medical student. So, we formed this organization called Pain and Palliative Care Society in the Northern Kerala city of Kalakkad based in the government medical college. Raj: That’s one of the high tech medical absurdities that we have developed.

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RFK Jr. Hires Autism Skeptic To Look Into CDC Autism Data

Physician's Weekly

It led to revocation of the elder Geier’s medical license and disciplinary action for David Geier for practicing medicine without a license. The final findings were published in 2003. Geier and his late father, geneticist Mark Geier, spent decades promoting the idea that vaccines are linked to autism.