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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has sent an alert about X-rays used during CT examinations that might cause implanted and external electronic medical devices to malfunction.
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In the next few months, researchers at the University of California at Los Angeles' (UCLA's) Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center will begin human studies on a new probe for Positron Emission Tomography (PET) that they believe will provide clinicians and researchers with a powerful new window on the immune system, as well as enable them to gauge early patient response to therapies.
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Could whole milk work just as well as the more expensive, barium-based contrast agents for imaging of the gastrointestinal tract?
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In the absence of any randomized clinical trial data, clinicians aren't exactly sure when it makes good sense to order magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) prior to breast cancer surgery and when it is more likely to offer little benefit.
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In This Issue: Baxter Bioscience has developed a whole-virus, two dose vaccine against avian flu; warning label now on antipsychotics regarding an increased risk of mortality in elderly patients treated for dementia-related psychosis; vitamin D for men with heart disease on horizon? A new oral anticoagulant may soon be available for prevention of thrombotic complications of hip or knee surgery; FDA Actions
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A Brooklyn, NY, resident presented in early June with a one-week history of fever, headaches, left-sided pleuritic chest pain, and a pleural effusion.
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In March 2004, an infectious disease specialist in New York queried the Emerging Infections Network (EIN) listserv about treatment of a patient with M. abscessus wound infection following abdominoplasty in the Dominican Republic.
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Abide and colleagues at the University of Mississippi report three patients who presented with skin lesions and were found to have leprosy.
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The Division of Foodborne, Bacterial, and Mycotic Diseases of the CDC, in conjunction with state and local health departments, conducted a study to better understand the epidemiologic and laboratory characteristics of paratyphoid fever in the United States.