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News: A middle-aged man was suffering from a fever, facial swelling and redness, and nasal congestion. After consulting with his regular family doctor and two other doctors, the man was diagnosed with viral influenza and a mild drug reaction. When the man's symptoms persisted and his eyes began bleeding, however, the family doctor finally realized that his patient was suffering from an eye infection.
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Responding to concerns that some health care providers would not have enough time to comply, the Federal Trade Commission is moving the deadline for its so-called Red Flags Rule to May 1, 2009, six months later than originally planned.
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The American Hospital Association (AHA) in Washington, DC, is urging the health care community to adopt a standardized color scheme for patient wristbands in order to avoid dangerous confusion about what the wristbands mean from one facility to another.
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It is human nature to take shortcuts or ignore the burdensome steps sometimes involved in doing a task the right way, and when there is no negative consequence, the deviation can be reinforced.
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Concussions, also known as mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI), create challenges for the emergency care provider.
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There are no disease-modifying pharmacotherapies for COPD. That is, although bronchodilators, anticholinergic agents, and inhaled corticosteroids improve FEV1 and reduce symptoms, decline in pulmonary function continues unabated and lung function returns promptly to pretreatment status once medication is stopped.
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Optimizing medical and lifestyle change therapy rather than performing PCI is appropriate as the initial management strategy for most patients with known CAD who do not have unstable or disabling symptoms.
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Lifestyle changes plus red yeast rice and fish oil resulted in similar beneficial effects on LDL cholesterol as moderate-dose statin therapy in patients meeting criteria for drug therapy for high LDL cholesterol.
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