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Patients expect the most up-to-date equipment and technology at hospitals, regardless of the institution’s size or budget. Providing that technology, however, can be difficult for small, rural hospitals that often lack the budget and staffing to make it possible.

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In a study of medical students, more serious cardiac risk estimates were given to Christians and less serious estimates for Muslims despite the patients being otherwise identical in their characteristics and symptoms, according to research in an upcoming issue of Medical Decision Making published by SAGE. Risk assessment, the first step in a medical triage process, determines subsequent treatment.

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Researchers are using DNA to “custom fit” your drug prescriptions, before you even take one dose. The quest to personalize medicine is underway at Temple University School of Pharmacy, as researchers target warfarin, a drug often associated with adverse drug reactions.

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Compound used in manufacture of flat panel televisions, computer displays, microcircuits, solar panels is 17,000 times more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.

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Researchers at Temple University have found that the different ways people worship a higher power can offer some insight into their risk for depression.

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University of Cincinnati scientists say that a recent scientific study of a now-closed uranium processing plant near Cincinnati has identified a second, potentially more significant source of radon exposure for former workers.

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Management of hepatitis B is a challenge for physicians and patients due to an incomplete understanding of the disease course, complex treatment indications, and the lack of large studies focusing on important health outcomes. Following two days of expert presentation, a rigorous evidence review, and audience commentary, the independent, impartial panel’s draft statement is now available.

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Article calls for “rational social hope” as an alternative to utopianism or cynicism.

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Researchers have new insight into the mechanisms that underlie a pathological increase in the size of the heart. The research, published by Cell Press in the Oct. 24 issue of the journal Molecular Cell, may lead to the development of new strategies for managing this extremely common cardiac ailment that often leads to heart failure.

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Elderly women can increase muscle strength as much as young women can, a new study from the University of New Hampshire finds, indicating that decline in muscle function is less a natural part of the aging process than due to a decline in physical activity. Yet while the two groups increased similar percentages of strength, the older group was far less effective in increasing power, which is more closely related to preventing falls.

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