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Hospitals fare well in recent scorecard
Broward and Palm Beach county hospitals, like those across the rest of the nation, have received their spring report cards as scored by a nonprofit organization that advocates for safer health-care delivery. Nineteen local hospitals earned A grades,...Tags: Miramar, Atlantis, West Palm Beach, Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), Hospitals and Clinics
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It's finals week: Do you know what your teen is taking to study so hard?
By the end of high school, 12% of teens say they have taken a stimulant medication for reasons other than to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). But parents, including many of those whose kids are taking ADHD drugs in a bid to boost...Tags: Prescription Drugs, Drug Use, Education, Social Sciences, Ethics
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Want a sculpture? A new jaw? Pizza? Just print it
Thanks to 3D printing, American society may be about to boldly go where no one has gone before. A Johns Hopkins scientist is seeking to adapt the technology to grow human jaw bones — potentially revolutionizing implant procedures. A Halethorpe...
Tags: Science and Technology, Liberty Bell, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Biotechnology, Art Institute of Chicago
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Eight years after a Roanoke murder, a new break in the case
reporterJamie Penn was found dead in the summer of 2005. He had been shot several times. It has been years since he died, but his family still hopes to bring his killer or killers to justice. "The memory is fresh as it was on yesterday. It doesn't feel like 8-...Tags: Biotechnology Industry, Murder, Shootings
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The Doctor's Corner: An early start on treating menopause
This is the first of a two-part series updating women of all ages on the use of hormones. It is a pleasure to be back putting pencil to paper with good news for women going through "the change." A Global Consensus Statement, hot off the press in the...Tags: Gynecology, Fatigue, Medical Specialization, Osteoporosis, Colleges and Universities
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Hopkins' global health grade: good, but not good enough
Remember the last time you got a B in a class? Maybe a B was OK, a hard-earned accomplishment in a difficult, GPA-sinking course. Or perhaps a B just wasn't good enough — a subpar finish that left you mentally shaking a fist at other classmates....
Tags: Science and Technology, Education, Colleges and Universities, Students, HIV
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4 HIV babies born in Broward, PBC — first in years
In South Florida, home to some of the nation's worst AIDS rates, a trend worth celebrating came to a sad end last year when Broward and Palm Beach counties each reported two babies born HIV-positive. They were the first such cases since 2006 in Palm...
Tags: AIDS, Palm Beach County, Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), Abusive Behavior, Health
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DNA link found in 2005 Roanoke slaying
Court records show a recent DNA hit has linked a man to evidence left at the scene of a 2005 shooting death. A warrant filed in Roanoke Circuit Court reveals that a match was found in April for DNA evidence recovered from the Aug. 16, 2005 shooting...
Tags: Biotechnology Industry
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RNA was a key ingredient in primordial soup that led to life
How did we go from a lifeless Earth with no oxygen to a planet teeming with life and that essential element? Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have found one crucial clue: iron and RNA. The team managed to re-create conditions of life on...Tags: Science and Technology, Biotechnology Industry, NASA, Biology
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Some could have gaps in medical coverage under new law
When the national healthcare law takes full effect next year, millions of Americans risk disrupted health coverage because of common life events: getting married or divorced, having children or taking on a second job. As their family incomes change,...
Tags: Health Insurance Cost, Poverty, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Diabetes, Government Health Care
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Health care concerns
I'm not statistician enough to know how much of the story U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster's editorial ("Time to repeal Obamacare," May 16) tells, but surely we agree that the existing health care system deserved overhaul. We are a sick nation, getting sicker,...Tags: Bill Shuster, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Pharmaceuticals
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Voice of the People, May. 20
Cancer research We recently heard the revelation that Angelina Jolie had undergone preventive double mastectomy in order to lessen her chance of developing breast cancer. Her DNA carries a genetic defect in the BRCA1 gene that significantly increases her...Tags: Science and Technology, Breast Cancer, Chicago White Sox, Ovarian Cancer, Science
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