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Telling the Difference Between Real and Fake Treatments
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Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has long been an important part of healthcare and treatment, whether formally by healthcare professionals or practiced at home or with faith healers. But while some CAM is truly beneficial, a lot is snake oil or even harmful. So how do you tell the difference when you come across a claim about
a particular herb or practice? STAT has a great feature digging into these nuances to help you tell the difference.
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Maternity Nurse Saves Husband with CPR
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Brittany Fields, RN, and her husband, Jake, have been together for 12 years, but that might have been all if not for Brittany’s CPR skills and quick thinking. She and Jake had been caring for their two-year-old sick son on a Saturday afternoon when Brittany found her husband non-responsive in the living room. She called 911, asked the neighbors for help, and began CPR until EMS arrived. Read on to learn how it turned out.
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Social Isolation Can Kill You
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More and more research is discovering how important community and social connection are and how dangerous loneliness and social isolation are, as the Surgeon General recently noted. A new systematic review of 90 studies with over 2.2 million people found that social isolation and loneliness are linked to a 32% increased risk of death. Both are also linked to a higher risk of cancer and cardiovascular death, and social isolation is linked to malnutrition, physical inactivity, and poorer immune function.
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