TOP 100 HEALTH AND MEDICAL SITES
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| Swiss gov't rejects call to ban assisted suicide By 2010-09-17T12:22:05ZGENEVA (AP) -- The Swiss government has rejected calls to ban assisted suicide groups such as Dignitas but will propose new rules to restrict their work.... hosted.ap.org |
Number of fat people in US to grow, report says By GREG KELLER 2010-09-23T20:49:04ZPARIS (AP) -- Citizens of the world's richest countries are getting fatter and fatter and the United States is leading the charge, an organization of leading economies said Thursday in its first ever obesity forecast.... hosted.ap.org |
Medical job titles: what's in a name? It's time to protect medical job titles like "consultant surgeon" to maintain public trust, writes orthopaedic surgeon John Getty. telegraph.co.uk |
Patients protest Chinese doctor's risky surgery By GILLIAN WONG 2010-10-19T14:37:41ZBEIJING (AP) -- At one moment, the Chinese urologist seemed to be at the height of his career: He had invented a surgical procedure to help patients overcome incontinence and was training doctors in America and elsewhere. The next, Dr. Xiao Chuanguo was in handcuffs, confessing that he'd hired thugs to attack two persistent critics who called him a fraud.... hosted.ap.org |
Number of diabetic Americans could triple by 2050 By MIKE STOBBE 2010-10-22T22:19:30ZATLANTA (AP) -- As many as 1 in 3 U.S. adults could have diabetes by 2050, federal officials announced Friday in a dramatic new projection that represents a threefold increase.... hosted.ap.org |