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Anchor lead: Video links are becoming more practical for medical visits, Elizabeth Tracey reports Video links via computer or smartphone are increasingly used for consults with physicians. Dierdre Johnston, a psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins, describes how much patients like a …
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Anchor lead: A new grading system should reduce fears for many men with prostate cancer, Elizabeth Tracey reports Among the many prognostic indicators for prostate cancer is the Gleason score, used for decades by pathologists to identify how advanced a …
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Anchor lead: Which is worse? Interrupted sleep or short sleep? Elizabeth Tracey reports People who have their sleep interrupted multiple times versus those who simply sleep fewer hours report worse moods after a couple of days, a Johns Hopkins study …
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Anchor lead: What is needed to interrupt diagnostic errors in medicine? Elizabeth Tracey reports The National Institute of Medicine recently released the alarming finding that virtually all Americans will experience an error in diagnosis at some point in their lifetime, …
