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Every day is Medicine Day. Today is Food Day.
Posted by Lenny Lesser, MD October 24, 2011 at 11:14 AM
Every day is Medicine Day. Every time a family doctor like me sees a patient who struggles with weight gain, diabetes, or high blood pressure, I give them medicine. But today is different. Today is Food Day. To be honest, I have long tried to emphasize the importance of food choices in preventing and treating [...]
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Five in Five to Survive: Top 5 lists, non-communicable diseases, and global health
Posted by Mark Ryan, MD October 9, 2011 at 1:49 PM
(The following post was written by Irène Mathieu, a second-year medical student at Vanderbilt. Irène attended the NPA’s Annual Meeting last weekend, and wrote this post in part related to the meeting’s presentations. Irène’s blog can be read here.) ——————– The Occupy Wall Street movement has spread like crazy to cities across the country, including [...]
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The Message We Must Communicate
Posted by Mark Ryan, MD September 19, 2011 at 3:44 PM
Despite the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) being just about 1 1/2 years old, there are still many Americans who do not understand what the law means. Ironically, this includes a large number of uninsured Americans, who stand to benefit significantly from the law. Some have argued that this lack of understanding results [...]
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