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| Lack of action prompts nationwide campaign to encourage better bone health |
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| Looking for better ways to serve patients, Rene Reyes, MD offers patients convenient online consults. Thanks to secure technology, patients now have the option of getting medical care from Dr. Reyes without leaving the comforts of their home or office. Virtual office visits at Reyes and Reyes are structured online consultations that occur through a secure Web-based portal. These online doctor's visits offer patients an alternative way to communicate with their doctor regarding health issues that do not require face-to-face contact, such as simple urinary tract infections or routine... |
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| 'Secret' IBS Audio Program 100 available to everyone |
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| The Web Marketing Association announces the call for entries for its 12th annual international WebAward Competition for Web site development at www.webaward08.org. The Web Marketing Association will once again name the Best Healthcare Web site of 2008. |
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| Physicians voice concerns that under a Universal Healthcare System the number of new patients will increase dramatically, while the doctors available to treat them may decrease leading to quality and wait time issues. |
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| Denver area medical providers offer health care consumers advice on saving money in wake of high deductible insurance plans. |
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| "The sensible and caring way to deal with the problems of menopause is to help women understand what happened to their bodies, how their diets affect the way they feel, how exercise improves the symptoms, how stress management helps them get the sleep they need, how supplementing their hormones with bioidentical hormones can help them get their lives back on track and enlighten the world with the wisdom they acquired along the way," says Erika Schwartz MD. |
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| The New York Times reported on February 19, 2008, that suicide is on the increase among middle-aged Americans - up nearly 20 per cent from 1999 to 2004. The rate is even higher for women. For those aged 45 to 55, the rate leapt 31 per cent. |
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| DrErika says that in a full page ad in major U.S. newspapers, the HOME (Hands Off My Estrogens) Coalition www.homecoalition,org denounces the FDA for using unfair and dishonest tactics in an attempt to protect Wyeth's synthetic products from the increasing popularity of bio-identicals. |
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| The FDA sent letters January 9 warning seven pharmacies that the claims they make about "bioidentical hormone replacement therapy" are unsupported by medical evidence and said that the agency plans to halt the compounding of medication containing estriol. |
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