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April marks National Stress Awareness Month. Stress can affect your body, thoughts, feelings, and behavior. Being able to recognize common symptoms of stress can help you manage them. Stress that’s left unchecked can contribute to many health problems, such as high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity, and diabetes. Long-term stress can prove to be more […]

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Curious about research tools with artificial intelligence built-in? Wondering if they are trustworthy? The short answer is that it depends. The structure of the tool, the scope of the data it’s pulling from, and its connectivity with other tools together determine a tool’s usefulness and credibility. And while there are dozens making the rounds in […]

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Evidence Based Medicine Healthcare and healthcare research are comprised of several steps and these steps fall under the umbrella of evidence based medicine (EBM). According to a 2006 JAMA systematic review: “Evidence based medicine is an approach of practicing medicine with the goal to improve and evaluate patient care.” Included in this process are what’s […]

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