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What is the role for a new medicine in managing menopause? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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There’s a new medicine to manage hot flashes, which many women identify as the most troubling aspect of menopause, a recent study reports. Yet Marty Makary, a surgeon and public health researcher at Johns Hopkins, says for many, effective treatment …
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What does a wholistic approach have to do with health? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Diabetes is out of control, along with obesity, mental health disorders, and rising rates of many cancers. Marty Makary, a surgeon at Johns Hopkins and author of a book called ‘Blind Spots,” argues that it is the impaired vision of …
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It’s time for medicine at large to look at whole people instead of diseases and conditions, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Could early life antibiotic use be associated with chronic disease? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Where are the blind spots in medicine? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Blind Spots is the name of a new book by Marty Makary, a surgeon at Johns Hopkins and public health researcher, illustrating how medicine sometimes gets it wrong and then seems unable to reverse the tide of established treatments and …
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Does the argument that limiting smartphone use works hold water? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Burgeoning research demonstrates that smartphone use in schools is detrimental to individual students and corrosive for the learning environment. Marty Makary, a surgeon at Johns Hopkins and public health researcher, says attempts to simply limit their use are not enough. …