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So Long but Not Farewell: The Medscape Journal of Medicine (1999-2009) Learn about the 10-year history of The Medscape Journal.
Departments, January 2009

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A Diabetes Drama for President Obama Michael Dansinger, MD, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, composes a poem that sets priorities for President Obama.
Departments, January 2009
Trends in Levonorgestrel Emergency Contraception Use, Births, and Abortions: The Utah Experience An ecological study shows a statistically significant association between increasing rates of emergency contraception distribution and decreasing abortion rates.
Ob/Gyn & Women's Health, January 2009
A Reader's Response to "Mustard Gas Poisoning of Hundreds of Americans in the United States in 1996" A reader responds to Dr. George Lundberg's article on mustard gas poisoning of Americans in the United States 1996.
Departments, January 2009
Surgical Audit of Inadvertent Parathyroidectomy During Total Thyroidectomy: Incidence, Risk Factors, and Outcome This study reports and discusses the incidence, risk factors, and clinical relevance of inadvertent parathyroidectomy during thyroidectomy.
Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, January 2009
Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Regenerative Medicine: Of Hopes and Challenges Claudius Conrad, MD, PhD, of Harvard Medical School and Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses the clinical use of stem cells.
Departments, January 2009
The A, B, C's of Factitious Disorder: A Response to Turner Factitious disorder has been given little attention in the preparation of the DSM-V. This paper rejects a published reformulation of the disorder and offers a reconceptualization of the diagnosis.
Psychiatry, January 2009
Public Health and the Menace of Markets Anthony Robbins, MD, MPA, Co-Editor of the Journal of Public Health Policy, explains how the "marketplace" of capitalism is harmful to the public health.
Departments, January 2009
Plant Foods in the American Diet? As We Sow... Dr. David L. Katz, Director, Prevention Research Center at Yale University School of Medicine, comments on the sad state of American fruit and vegetable intake.
Clinical Nutrition & Obesity, January 2009
Fruit and Vegetable Intake Among Adolescents and Adults in the United States: Percentage Meeting Individualized Recommendations Fewer than 1 in 10 Americans meet fruit or vegetable intake recommendations, according to CDC researchers.
Clinical Nutrition & Obesity, January 2009
Low-Grade Endometrial Stromal Sarcoma With Intravenous Extension to the Heart A rare endometrial stromal sarcoma with intracardiac metastasis in a 24-year-old woman from Yemen.
Ob/Gyn & Women's Health, January 2009

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