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What Matters
When the Surgeon General released its 31st report on Preventing Tobacco Use Among Youth and Young Adults: A Report of the Surgeon General earlier this year, media outlets picked up on the slowing of declines in youth cigarette smoking and the stalling of declines in smokeless tobacco use. The report estimated that more than 3 million high school students –... »
Americans are very tired. The National Sleep Foundation recommends that adults sleep 7 to 9 hours per day, yet the percentage of U.S. adults securing at least 8 hours of sleep on weeknights has fallen from 38% to 27% since 2001. Sleep promotion is a recognized national health agenda with a Healthy People 2020 objective to increase the proportion of adults... »
Americans are in excruciating pain. Pain is the second most common reason people seek medical care. The Associated Press recently reported that pharmacies sold enough oxycodone and hydrocodone in 2010 to give 40 Percocet (5-mg) tablets and 24 Vicodin (5-mg) tablets to every man, woman and child in the United States.
Opioids are the quintessential blessing... »
Last week, JAMA released a theme issue devoted to comparative effectiveness research (CER).
In contrast to traditional randomized clinical trials comparing an active intervention to a control condition (or placebo), CER compares existing interventions to each other to determine relative harms and benefits. CER research frequently includes patient... »
Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report on the percentage of adults with activity limitations. The report stated that adults aged at least 75 years are almost three times as likely as adults aged 65-74 years (11.0% versus 3.7%) to require the help of another person with activities of daily living (ADLs) and with... »
A colleague of mine recently made me aware of a resolution in the Kansas House of Representatives "requesting the Kansas Department of Health and Environment to conduct a study regarding tobacco harm reduction." This cacophonous social debate centers on the idea of recommending chewing tobacco (i.e., snuff) to cigarette smokers to reduce societal... »
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| May 21 - 25 Sarasota, FL | American Medical Seminars: Cardiology Update in Primary Care |
| May 22 - 25 Lisbon, | 21st European Stroke Conference |
| May 23 - 27 Philadelphia, PA | American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE): Annual Meeting and Clinical Congress |
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