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The province of Ontario in Canada maintains a comprehensive database of all implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) implants.
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Hypertension is usually asymptomatic, so adherence to drug therapy is an issue, especially if the drugs used cause symptoms.
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It is believed that returning blood flow to chronically ischemic but viable myocardium in patients with heart failure due to coronary artery disease will improve symptoms and reduce mortality.
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Calcium supplements and MI; birth control pills and VTE; ACE inhibitors and breast cancer risk; spending on pharmaceuticals; and FDA actions.
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A 51-year-old man, a foreman for a local construction business, presented to the emergency department with progressive lower back pain of 2 weeks duration and shortness of breath. Initially mild, the pain had become incapacitating within the prior 48 hours.
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Can the informed consent process actually provide too much information? That's the contention of HIV researcher Susan Allen, MD, MPH, who points to a recent study she tried to conduct in Zambia of participants' knowledge about contraceptive options.
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Men and women infected with HIV dramtically reduced the risk of transmitting the virus to their sexual partners through initiation of oral antiretroviral therapy (ART), according to findings from a large multinational clinical study conducted by the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN).
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Elite suppressors are that 1% or fewer of HIV patients who do not develop signs of disease progression despite living for years without treatment.