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A collaborative effort between Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital emergency department staff and the health system's post-acute facilities and home care agency moves patients out of the ED and directly into post-acute care, freeing up beds and improving patient throughput.
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A patient assessment tool being tested in a Medicare demonstration project is intended to standardize the information providers share as patients transition from one level of care to another.
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Guidelines for prediabetes from The American College of Endocrinology; statins for the prevention of dementia? Possible help for women suffering from sexual side effects while on antidepressants; government incentives for electronic prescribing; FDA Actions.
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Blockage of the harmful effects of tissue plasminogen activator by imatinib (Gleevec) might improve ischemic stroke outcomes.
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Enzyme replacement therapy appears safe and effective for this rare genetic muscle disease.
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This case review of 960 patients details the clinical features of musicians' hand dystonia, a potentially disabling focal task-specific dystonia often beginning at peak-career. Cases were predominantly male, with onset typically in the fourth decade and most commonly affecting the third digit or contiguous fingers on the ulnar side.
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Patients with a history of migraine headaches are likely to have a headache in association with an acute ischemic stroke. The headaches are migraine-like and often occur with brainstem infarcts.
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While about one-half of patients with migraine with aura have a patent foramen ovale, their right-to-left cardiac shunt does not increase the risk of white matter lesions on MRI scan of the brain.