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This report from multiple cooperating centers describes findings in 403 patients who presented with dysphagia and 140 patients with noncardiac chest pain and 44 patients with both symptoms on presentation.
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This report by Song and colleagues used a validated food frequency questionnaire in 39,345 women from the Womens Health Study.
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The FDA has approved the first once-a-week combined hormone therapy for postmenopausal symptoms.
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How would you interpret the 12-lead ECG shown in the Figure? What is distinctly unusual about this tracing? What would you ask the technician who recorded this tracing?
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Sometimes, despite your best efforts, an accident occurs with new technology and a patient is injured or dies. Surprisingly, one of the most common mistakes that providers make is insufficient investigation or lack of response to an error so that it is repeated, says Bruce C. Hansel, PhD, executive director of forensic services at ECRI.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced these rates for ambulatory surgery center groups, effective April 1, 2004.
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When it comes to emergency contraception (EC), are you impeding access to women who might need it?
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The most comprehensive analysis of U.S. HIV cases completed to date reveals that new HIV diagnoses in 29 states increased in 2002, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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At the American College of Cardiology (Bethesda, Maryland) scientific sessions in early March at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, the sprawling exhibit floor was, as usual, a bustling center of activity. Perhaps no company embodied the spirit of constant on-the-go activity more than GE Healthcare (Waukesha, Wisconsin), the new umbrella moniker for all of General Electrics (Fairfield, Connecticut) healthcare-related companies.
