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Medicine from the farm: Food as prescription medicine  WNDU-TV

We all know the saying, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” But what if you can’t afford the apple, or any other vegetable?

Metagenics to Launch Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Center (PLMC)  PRNewswire

ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Jan. 24, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Metagenics, Inc., a health sciences company, today announced the opening of the Personalized Lifestyle …

With human drugs, a startup hopes to deliver precision medicine to dogs  STAT

A Silicon Valley company wants to offer precision medicine to dogs by recommending targeted therapies that are normally used to treat humans.

How your flu medicine can affect your heart  Medical News Today

Flu and colds are common this season, and we often treat them with anti-inflammatories and decongestants. However, these can affect cardiovascular risk.

Pelzman’s Picks: Medicine in the Age of ‘Fake News’  MedPage Today

Fred N. Pelzman, MD, of Weill Cornell Internal Medicine Associates and weekly blogger for MedPage Today, follows what’s going on in the world of primary care …

UAB State of the School of Medicine speech set for Jan. 28  UAB News

Selwyn M. Vickers, M.D., FACS, senior vice president for Medicine and dean of the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, will give his State …

Connections: Why Rochester is a budding hotbed for lifestyle medicine  WXXI News

Rochester is a budding hotbed for lifestyle medicine. The founder of Rochester Lifestyle Medicine says the concentration of lifestyle medicine board-certified …

Blood test detects Alzheimer’s damage before symptoms  Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

A simple blood test reliably detects signs of brain damage in people on the path to developing Alzheimer’s disease – even before they show signs of confusion …

Photos: Forsyth Feral Fix with NCSU College of Veterinarian Medicine  Winston-Salem Journal

A cat waits in a cage prior to being fixed as part of the Forsyth Feral Fix program, veterinary students from the North Carolina State University College of …

Medical Students Push For More LGBT Health Training To Address Disparities  NPR

One in 5 LGBT adults has avoided medical care for fear of discrimination, according to a recent survey, and 80 percent of physicians surveyed say they feel “not …