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Standard of care and reimbursement questioned with 3D printing
Soon there also can be a risk for hospitals that don’t use 3D printing, says Lisa Baird, JD, an attorney with the law firm of Reed Smith in Los Angeles. As the technology becomes more widespread, it could become the standard of care in some circumstances to create your own model or tool, she notes.
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Mediterranean Diet Increases Brain Volume
Higher adherence to the Mediterranean diet led to measurable increases in brain volume in a multi-ethnic sampling of older adults.
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Prevention of Relapse in Depression: Antidepressants or Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy?
Maintenance antidepressants or mindfulness-based cognitive therapy aimed at tapering or discontinuing antidepressants are both effective interventions for prevention of recurrent depression.
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Infectious Disease Alert Updates
Borrelia Miyamotoi in My Backyard! Who Knew?
Fecal Microbiota Transplantation — Patients Need No Convincing
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Malaria in Pregnancy — Good News, Bad News, and Opportunity
With waning natural immunity against malaria, women face increased adverse consequences of malaria infection during pregnancy. As malaria is being conquered, good clinical care of vulnerable individuals is still essential.
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Ceftazidime-avibactam — Formulary Considerations
Ceftazidime-avibactam is a new beta-lactam/beta-lactamase inhibitor combination approved for the treatment of complicated intra-abdominal infections in combination with metronidazole, and complicated urinary tract infections, including pyelonephritis in patients with limited alternative treatment options.
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ID Grand Rounds — Stanford University
A 69-year-old male with allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant with a space-occupying lesion of the central nervous system.
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Tissue Invasion by Malignantly Transformed Cells from Hymenolepis nana in a Human Host
The first reported case of human disease caused by parasite-derived cancer cells was discovered in a 41-year-old man with HIV infection; lung, adrenal, and liver nodules; and lymphadenopathy.
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Outcomes of Acute Encephalitis in Children
ABSTRACT & COMMENTARY: MRI is useful not only in assisting with identifying the etiology of encephalitis, but also provides prognostic information.
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Meningitis Update
MONOGRAPH: There are several etiologies of meningitis, but it's most often due to an infectious process.