Wednesday 25 July 2018

You Have 11 Seconds to Tell Your Doc What's Wrong

Doctors interrupted patients who were telling them what’s wrong after only 11 seconds and were able to find out the patient's primary reason for the visit only about one-third of the time in a new study conducted by a researcher at the University of Florida.



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Treating Depression May StopRepeat Heart Attack

The benefit was most clear when it came to the risk of suffering another heart attack: less than 9 percent of antidepressant patients did, compared with over 15 percent of placebo patients, the findings showed.



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Could Suicide Rise Along With Global Temperatures?

The researchers concluded that temperature increases could lead to a 1.4 percent increase in suicides in the United States and a 2.3 percent increase in Mexico by 2050. That would add up to  an additional 21,000 suicides in the two countries.



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Spiking Insulin Costs Put Patients in Brutal Bind

woman injecting insulin

Insulin prices have skyrocketed in recent years, on average tripling between 2002 and 2013. One popular brand, NovoLog, increased in list price by 353% from 2001 to 2016.



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