Wash. state earns 'A' grade for pain prescribing, for now

Wash. state earns 'A' grade for pain prescribing, for now

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Meanwhile, pain specialists at the University of Washington and Group Health want doctors to consider other approaches, saying pain treatments are too often reduced to narcotics or nothing. The Cancer Society is currently asking doctors across the …
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Liver cancer doesn't always mean death

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Another contributing factor is that surgery and transplantation, which are the most successful forms of treatment — with five-year survival rates of approximately 50 percent — are not options in the majority of cases. Shen, who directs the Complex …
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' I was a sick guy ' : Matthew Perry opens up about his battle with drinking

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Explaining his rationale, he said: 'If you're thrown from treatment to the outside world, sometimes its too bumpy.' Matthew is working with addiction specialist Earl Hightower on the Perry House project, and they were at the White House earlier this …
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A doctor treats conjoined Palestinian female twins at a hospital in the West

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The mother, Basma Breiwesh, arrived at a Hebron hospital with her conjoined daughters three days after she gave birth at Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem. She said she decided to come home after Israeli specialists told her the twins could not …
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