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		<title>Mayo Clinic&#8217;s Symptom Checker</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Mayo Clinic recently launched their first free iPhone application: Symptom Checker. Geared toward consumers, the app collects adult or child symptoms from the end-user and provides information about self-care at home or guidance on when to seek additional care. In the Clinic&#8217;s lingo, the app provides practical &#8220;action-oriented&#8221; information to consumers. The app also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grand Rounds 6.23</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doctor Anonymous hosts this week&#8217;s grand rounds, a highlight of notable posts from the medical blogosphere. On The Wards is grateful for having been included with our article on medication reconciliation and patient safety.
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		<title>New &amp; Interesting (1 March 2010)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;New &#038; Interesting&#8221; series is a biweekly compilation of select research findings, news articles, and random tidbits in bullet-point format. The entries are highly abbreviated, but provide links to the original articles or abstracts if you desire to read further.
General Articles

The Sun Herald reports on how cardiologists in Mississippi have been using the iPhone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Challenges of Medication Reconciliation and Patient Safety</title>
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		<comments>http://onthewards.com/2010/02/the-challenges-of-medication-reconciliation-and-patient-safety/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wardslave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Patient Care]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cost of designing, developing, and marketing a new pharmaceutical drug can literally exceed a billion dollars. Even millions more are invested in non-industry trials to demonstrate the efficacy &#8212; or lack thereof &#8212; of these drugs with certain medical conditions or clinical parameters. The process of getting FDA approval is another separate adventure in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New &amp; Interesting (15 February 2010)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wardslave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Critical Care]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pediatrics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;New &#038; Interesting&#8221; series is a biweekly compilation of select research findings, news articles, and random tidbits in bullet-point format. The entries are highly abbreviated, but provide links to the original articles or abstracts if you desire to read further.
General Articles

The Lancet, a prominent British medical journal, formally retracted the original article that associated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How The Brain Works</title>
		<link>http://onthewards.com/2010/02/how-the-brain-works/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wardslave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neurology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The human brain is a wonderfully complex organ that has evaded understanding since the dawn of time … at least, until now. John Cleese, English actor and comedian, presents an in-depth yet succinct overview of how the brain works. Even more amazing is his ability to distill all this information into a 2-minute videocast, &#8220;All [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grand Rounds 6.19</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Rob Lamberts of the Musings of a Distractible Mind hosts this week&#8217;s grand rounds &#8230; through the eyes of a groundhog. Special guests for this week&#8217;s grand rounds include a llama and an iPad-touting [photoshopped] Steve Jobs. On The Wards makes a brief appearance as well with our low-carb vs. low-fat diet article:

What’s best, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New &amp; Interesting (1 February 2010)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wardslave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cardiology]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://onthewards.com/?p=540</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;New &#038; Interesting&#8221; series is a biweekly compilation of select research findings, news articles, and random tidbits in bullet-point format. The entries are highly abbreviated, but provide links to the original articles or abstracts if you desire to read further.
General Articles

Reducing just 3 grams of salt from the diet of the average American could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Low-carbohydrate Versus Low-fat Diet</title>
		<link>http://onthewards.com/2010/01/low-carbohydrate-versus-low-fat-diet/</link>
		<comments>http://onthewards.com/2010/01/low-carbohydrate-versus-low-fat-diet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:29:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wardslave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cardiology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Endocrinology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Low-carbohydrate diets were initially popularized by the late Dr. Robert Atkins, who published the fundamentals of this diet in his book Dr. Atkins&#8217; New Diet Revolution. He also founded Atkins Nutritional to commercialize and further evangelize the low-carbohydrate diet. Following Dr. Atkins&#8217;s death, however, the popularity of the diet subsided and his company filed for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TED Talk: Creating Artificial Organs</title>
		<link>http://onthewards.com/2010/01/ted-talk-creating-artificial-organs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wardslave</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cell Biology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anthony Atala, director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative
Medicine, presented a riveting TED talk in October 2009 (broadcasted
January 2010) about organ regeneration. Atala initially lays out the
current dilemma with organ transplantation: although the demand for
donor organs has multiplied several-fold over the years, the annual rate of transplantation has remained virtually unchanged due to a [...]]]></description>
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