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In this European study, investigators randomized 200 out-of-hospital VF/VT cardiac arrest victims to immediate defibrillation and standard cardiac arrest care (96 patients in the standard group) vs. three minutes of CPR prior to defibrillation (104 patients in the CPR-first group) performed by responding emergency medical services (EMS) personnel.
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Influenza Vaccination and Reduction in Hospitalizations; Screening Men for Prostate and Colorectal Cancer; Weight Loss in CHF and Treatment with ACE-I
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The FDA has approved aprepitant for preventing both acute and delayed nausea and vomiting associated with chemotherapy.
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Noncompliance with treatment for latent tuberculosis can be monitored with the aid of a special urine test that checks for metabolites of isoniazid.
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Although the phenomenon of cutaneous melanoma (CM) arising from melanocytic nevi (MN) is known, the transformation rate of MN into CM is not. Tsao and associates set out to calculate the rate, using published data and making some assumptions to ease the calculation.
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The management of the obesity epidemic is complex, but there are some interventions that can be helpful.
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This study concludes that there may be a direct association between ischemia and the development of Alzheimers pathology (plaques and neurofibrillary tangles), or alternatively, ischemia may unmask otherwise mild cases of AD.
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Ductal carcinoma incidence rates remained essentially constant from 1987-1999 while lobular carcinoma rates increased steadily. This increase presents a clinical challenge given that lobular carcinoma is more difficult to detect than ductal carcinoma by both physical examination and mammography.