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Healthy travel - The Almanac Online
The Almanac Online, CA
She's an adjunct clinical assistant professor in the Division of Infectious Disease and Geographic Medicine at the Stanford School of Medicine; and practices travel medicine and emergency medicine at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation. …
Should Diabetics Drive? - San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle, USA
Or are you pondering how to tell your doctor he's a jerk? Send your burning healthcare questions to Doc Gurley by emailing docgurleyatgmaildotcom. Doc Gurley cannot answer every question, and she cannot practice medicine through a keyboard (not even …
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Dublin Doctor Pleads No Contest To Patient Molestation Charges - KTVU.com
KTVU.com, CA
Tony Shiu, 40, who was a private general internal medicine doctor, entered his plea to eight felony counts and one misdemeanor count in the courtroom of Alameda County Superior Court Judge Henry Ramsey on Thursday. Deputy District Attorney Danielle …
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Free Skin Cancer Screening at New Stanford Medicine Outpatient Center - Business Wire (press release)
Business Wire (press release), CA
“If we can't change tanning or sunburn behaviors, at least we hope to promote skin self-examinations and getting people into the doctor early because that can be the difference between life and death for melanoma,” said Swetter. …
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Stigma difficult to shake, East Bay pot club operator says - San Jose Mercury News
San Jose Mercury News, USA
For her, marijuana is a medicine. "It's been around for a long, long time, but it's been labeled as a bad thing," she says. She is a diabetic, with a heart condition and nerve problems in her legs. "Sometimes the pain is so bad, I can't stand it," she …
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'Stanford Open Office Hours' comes to Facebook - Stanford University News
Stanford University News, CA
Zimbardo's Facebook appearance follows last month's conversation with Dr. Abraham Verghese of the School of Medicine. Verghese, known for his deep experience with terminal patients and advocacy of bedside medicine and compassionate doctor care, …
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16-year-old who had swine flu prepares to return to Branham High - San Jose Mercury News
San Jose Mercury News, USA
The father returned with the medicine just as two county nurses were outfitting themselves on the front porch "in front of whoever was going to be watching" with smocks, goggles and double masks, the mother said. Each family member was tested with a …
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Is Google Any Help in Tracking an Epidemic? - TIME
TIME
06, 2009 When the first US patients fell victim to the new H1N1 flu, they may not have immediately thought to call their doctor or run to the nearest emergency room. Instead, they probably sat down in front of their computers and Googled "flu symptoms" …
New Study Shows Danger Of Drug Errors - KTVU.com
KTVU.com, CA
Patients taking the wrong medicine or combining medicines that have an unexpected outcome can have dangerous or even fatal results. A recent federal study looked at medication errors and what might be done to reduce the startling number of errors that …
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Cassidy: Benefits outweigh pitfalls in creating an electronic … - San Jose Mercury News
San Jose Mercury News, USA
Questions of ethics, law, logistics, technology and medicine still need to be settled. And so, we are free to talk about what a data mining component might look like. Or what we think it should look like. The potential pitfalls are huge. …
