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Regular use of aspirin and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agents may reduce the risk of breast cancer.
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Teitelbaum assessed the annual incidence of acute HAV infection in Canadian travelers from 1996 to 2001.
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This concise review makes a compelling case for a change in the healthcare workers behavior. Helpful hints including increasing the use of alcohol-based formulations to reduce the time constrains are provided throughout the article.
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Short-term Intensive Insulin Therapy in Newly Diagnosed DM2; Endothelial Dysfunction and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus; Treatment of Parkinsons Disease with Pergolide and Relation to Restrictive Valvular Heart Disease
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The rhythm in the Figure was obtained from a 70-year-old woman who was admitted to the hospital with a history of falling out on several occasions during the week prior to admission. Your thoughts on the case?
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An important publication by Zile and colleagues that have been long interested in diastolic properties of the heart, confirms that diastolic heart failure (DHF) is a real entity and is associated with significant abnormalities of active relaxation and passive stiffness in the left ventricle (LV).
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Ernst and colleagues from St. George Hospital in Hamburg, Germany describe a new technique for positioning and manipulating ablation catheters during electrophysiologic studies. The system is a remote magnetic navigation system, which uses 2 permanent magnets to move a specially designed catheter.
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The diagnosis of infective endocarditis (IE) remains a challenge. Thus, these investigators from Basel, Switzerland hypothesized that a marker of systemic bacterial infection such as procalcitonin may help. In 67 consecutive patients with clinical suspicion of IE, a multidisciplinary team applied the Duke criteria to make the diagnosis of IE in 21 patients.
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When you think about the new Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations survey process, do you envision surveyors talking to your organizations least articulate staff members, selecting patients to trace for whom everything possible has gone wrong, and arriving at units when your most experienced nurses are nowhere in sight?
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