Noreta Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

An Escape Fire for Healthcare I recently watched a film, called “ Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare, ” a 2012 documentary about how the priorities in the US healthcare system are focused on increasing revenue, instead of on goals that improve health, like preventive care. Bill Skelton, founder of the Acupuncture Clinic here in Columbia, SC, gave me the film to watch and said he thought that as a Direct Primary Care physician and owner of Noreta Family Medicine, I would appreci

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FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Doug Whitney was supposed to develop Alzheimer's by 50. Now scientists are trying to understand why his brain remains healthy at 75.

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

By Sophia R. Gaulkin & Esther Petrikovsky & David B. Clissold On January 21, 2025, the Trump administration withdrew FDAs proposed ban on menthol cigarettes, which the Biden administration initially introduced in 2022. This move is the latest step in FDAs long, uncertain, and controversial journey to ban menthol cigarettes. For some background (which is covered in more detail in one of our previous posts on the subject ), in 2009, Congress specifically exempted tobacco or menthol when i

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FEBRUARY 12, 2025

What do National Institutes of Health funding cuts mean for universities? We ask Holden Thorp, editor-in-chief of the journal Science and former University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill chancellor. (Image credit: Joshua A.

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NPR Health

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

New, less damaging treatments are giving some patients the choice to try to preserve their ability to have children after cancer.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever is one of the deadliest tickborne diseases in the United States, often killing people within about a week if left untreated. At one point, the San Carlos Apache Reservation had rates of infection 150 times the national average. But now, they've achieved a huge milestone no deaths from the disease in at least five years.

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