Wall Street Journal

Forget to Take Medicine? These Pills Will Tell Your Doctor
Wall Street Journal
Startup companies are coming up with new technologies aimed at getting people to take medicine only as directed. Taking medication haphazardly—skipping doses, lapsing between refills or taking pills beyond their expiration date—has been linked to ...
Taking Meds Goes High-TechWall Street Journal (India)

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UW Medicine, Catholic health system to have 'strategic affiliation'
The Seattle Times
The latest in a long list of affiliations in Washington between secular hospitals and religious health-care systems is a shocker: UW Medicine and PeaceHealth announced Monday they had signed up to create a “strategic affiliation,” with details to be ...
UW Medicine, PeaceHealth to form alliancePuget Sound Business Journal (Seattle) (blog)
PeaceHealth and UW Medicine agree to affiliateThe Columbian
UW Medicine, PeaceHealth to coordinate medical servicesOregonLive.com
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UCSF News Services

UCSF School of Medicine Sends Newly Minted Doctors into the World
UCSF News Services
Marking a significant milestone in the lives of medical students, the UCSF School of Medicine conferred the doctor of medicine degrees to the Class of 2013 during a commencement ceremony at Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall on May 16. Sam Hawgood ...



Bored with mere medicine, IBM's Watson adds customer service to its resume
GigaOM
Bored with mere medicine, IBM's Watson adds customer service to its resume. By Stacey Higginbotham. 20 hours ago May. 20, 2013 - 9:01 PM PDT. 1 Comment. A; A. Summary: IBM's Watson has been helping clinicians diagnose ailments and bankers ...

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UPENN Almanac

Vet Medicine Teaching Awards
UPENN Almanac
Krick The Zoetis Distinguished Teacher Award is the most prestigious teaching award in veterinary medicine. It is presented annually to a faculty member at each college of veterinary medicine in the US. Its purpose is “to improve veterinary medicine ...

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ABC News

How to Stay Safe at Summer Concerts -- From Hydrating to Moshing
ABC News
Concert injuries vary depending on the performer, said Gordon Oldham, who directs Rock Medicine, a 40-year-old volunteer organization that provides free "nonjudgmental" medical care at more than 700 concerts and events in Northern California each year.

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Global recommendations on child medicine
Science Codex
Transparent information on the evidence supporting global recommendations on paediatric medicines should be easily accessible in order to help policy makers decides on what drugs to include in their national drug lists, according to international ...

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Food as medicine: Four nutrients to boost in your diet for optimal health
Statesman Journal
Vitamin D: While the Institute of Medicine's guidelines have not raised the recommended intake of D3 to levels seen in research to boost D3 levels in our blood, there is growing evidence low D3 levels are associated with increased cancer risk ...

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Sanctions Are No Medicine for the Iran-US Standoff
Huffington Post
Recently, the Iranian government also banned all subsidies to medical companies. This means that companies cannot purchase medicine with government dollars, and this scarcity of hard currency will further contribute to vital medicines being unavailable.

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This Week in PLOS Medicine: Integrating Mental Health & HIV Care, Colon ...
PLoS Blogs (blog)
David Sinclair and colleagues discuss their experience at the Ghana National Drugs Programme's review of the international evidence base for five priority pediatric medicines. The authors report that applying the global recommendations to Ghana was not ...

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