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The Ethical Right to Healthcare in the Affordable Care Act
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Stedman's Medical Dictionary
TL;DR: This new edition includes more than 107,000 terms and definitions, including new consultants for the specialties of endocrinology, gastroenterology, geriatrics, and rheumatology.
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What We Owe To Each Other.
TL;DR: It's significant to wait for the representative and beneficial books to read to feel good about reading, even if you are a good reader or not.
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The Foundations of Bioethics
TL;DR: A physician friend of mine recently was caring for a critically ill infant who was dying and the physician told me that, as a physician, he had the right and the duty to refuse to provide treatment any longer because the effort was `futile'.
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Principles of biomedical ethics
TL;DR: The principles of biomedical and Islamic medical ethics and an interfaith perspective on end-of-life issues and three cases to exemplify some of the conflicts in ethical decision-making are discussed.
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Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics—2007 Update A Report From the American Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee
Wayne D. Rosamond,Katherine M. Flegal,Gary Friday,Karen L. Furie,Alan S. Go,Kurt J. Greenlund,Nancy Haase,Michael Ho,Virginia J. Howard,Bret Kissela,Steven J. Kittner,Donald M. Lloyd-Jones,Mary M. McDermott,James B. Meigs,Claudia S. Moy,Graham Nichol,Christopher J. O'Donnell,Véronique L. Roger,John S. Rumsfeld,Paul D. Sorlie,Julia Steinberger,Thomas Thom,Sylvia Wasserthiel-Smoller,Yuling Hong +23 more
TL;DR: This chapter describes the most important sources and the types of data the AHA uses from them and other government agencies to derive the annual statistics in this Update.
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The Disease Burden Associated with Overweight and Obesity
Aviva Must,Jennifer L. Spadano,Eugenie Coakley,Alison E. Field,Graham A. Colditz,William H. Dietz +5 more
TL;DR: A graded increase in the prevalence ratio (PR) was observed with increasing severity of overweight and obesity for all of the health outcomes except for coronary heart disease in men and high blood cholesterol level in both men and women.
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Health inequalities among British civil servants: the Whitehall II study
Michael Marmot,Stephen Stansfeld,Chandrakant R. Patel,Fiona M North,Jenny Head,Ian R. White,Eric J. Brunner,A Feeney,G. Davey Smith +8 more
TL;DR: There was an inverse association between employment grade and prevalence of angina, electrocardiogram evidence of ischaemia, and symptoms of chronic bronchitis, and self-perceived health status and symptoms were worse in subjects in lower status jobs.