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Decompressive craniectomy for severe diffuse traumatic brain injury and refractory intracranial hypertension (ICP) reduces ICP but increases unfavorable outcomes.
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Seasonal flu and H1N1 vaccines are safe for patients with myasthenia gravis and should be administered.
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A composite score that combines age, motor power, and light touch perception can predict recovery of walking with great accuracy in patients with traumatic spinal cord injury.
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Carbamazepine has been linked with severe forms of hypersensitivity reactions. As such, genome wide approaches to identify patients-at-risk have become increasingly important.
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A controlled surgical trial of glutamic acid decarboxylase gene therapy, targeting the subthalamic nucleus in advanced Parkinsons's disease, demonstrated statistically significant improvement in motor symptoms off medication in those receiving gene therapy compared with controls.
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Hospitals should provide pertussis vaccines to their health care workers free of charge, but should still treat employees with antibiotics if they have unprotected exposure to patients with pertussis and work with patients at high risk, such as young infants, a federal vaccine advisory panel says.
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The Joint Commission has amended an infection control standard that called for hand hygiene compliance of more than 90%, conceding that the expectation was too high after a group of eight leading hospitals could muster only an 82% rate in a performance improvement project.
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have determined that electronic-eye faucets, which presumably lower bacterial hand contamination via hands-free usemay actually endanger high-risk patients with Legionella infection.
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New Delhi carbapenemase-1 (NDM-1) is increasingly seen in media reports as the organisms that produce metallocarbapenemase, which are most prevalent in South Asia but have now appeared in many parts of the world including the United States.