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		<title>New book about exercise</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 14:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may be exercising to improve your health, your memory, your strength, your endurance, or for the pure pleasure of it all. By now, there’s a mountain of research to show the best ways to achieve these goals while minimizing the chance of injuries. Gretchen Reynolds, who writes the Phys Ed” column for the New York Times, has distilled it all for her new book, “The First 20 Minutes.” Many myths were busted along the way<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&#038;blog=7088906&#038;post=9966&#038;subd=medconsumers&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. doctors&#8217; income 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 13:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Physician income declined in general, although the top-earning specialties remained the same as in Medscape's 2011 survey. In 2012, radiologists and orthopedic surgeons topped the list at $315,000, followed by cardiologists ($314,000), anesthesiologists ($309,000), and urologists ($309,000). Previously, radiologists and orthopedic surgeons led the pack, at a mean income of $350,000 each, followed by anesthesiologists and cardiologists (both at $325,000). The bottom-earning specialties in 2012's survey were pediatrics, family medicine, and internal medicine ($156,000-$165,00).<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&#038;blog=7088906&#038;post=9947&#038;subd=medconsumers&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Drugs to prevent heart problems</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2012/04/26/drugs-to-prevent-heart-problems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Alternative Medicine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to the two cardiologists who went public with crucial information rarely explained to the public. Their target: Heart drugs prescribed to healthy people who are expected take them every day for the rest of their lives. Guess what? These drugs can be great at improving your blood test results but not so great at helping you live longer or delaying the symptoms of heart disease. (And isn’t that the point, after all?) Billions of dollars were spent annually on drugs that, initially, showed promise that didn’t hold up with long-term scientific scrutiny.  And too often, failure to prove any benefit does not dull the prescribing enthusiasm.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&#038;blog=7088906&#038;post=9913&#038;subd=medconsumers&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The drug for memory loss</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2012/04/21/drug-for-memory-loss/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 12:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Alzheimer's disease]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Is it simple memory loss? ... Or is it Alzheimer’s?” This was the headline---over the photo of worried adult---for a pervasive drug ad of yore that sent chills up the spines of many a middle-aged and older person.  Aricept, a drug for Alzheimer’s disease, quickly became a blockbuster in the U.S. to the tune of $2 billion in annual sales. All the more amazing, considering that Aricept is barely better than a placebo. Well before Aricept’s patent would expire, the company in charge of marketing had to come up with a plan for keeping profits high while fending off generic competition. Pfizer’s plan was simple---just increase the drug’s dosage.  Same useless drug, but a new improved dose!  <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&#038;blog=7088906&#038;post=9890&#038;subd=medconsumers&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>45 medical tests or treatments to avoid</title>
		<link>http://medicalconsumers.org/2012/04/11/45-tests-and-treatments-to-avoid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our medical care system has become a danger, an expensive, wasteful danger at that. So what else is new? You might ask. Now doctors themselves are recognizing the problem and going public with warnings, specifying tests, treatments, and procedures to avoid. The primary care physicians led the way last year when they named the top ten “don’ts” in their field. Now nine specialty organizations have weighed in with their versions.  A momentous move, given the fact that these specialists are putting aside their own economic self-interest and warning the public about the dangers of overtesting and overtreatment.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalconsumers.org&#038;blog=7088906&#038;post=9845&#038;subd=medconsumers&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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