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Optimizing medical and lifestyle change therapy rather than performing PCI is appropriate as the initial management strategy for most patients with known CAD who do not have unstable or disabling symptoms.
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In This Issue: 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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As kids prepare for school this fall, remember that the United States American College of Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommends administration of meningococcal vaccine to previously unvaccinated children starting high school or going off to college.
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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 et al at the university of mississippi report three patients who presented with skin lesions and were found to have leprosy.
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The inevitability of progression of bacterial resistance to antibiotics used in the clinic and other settings dictates the need for approaches that go beyond antimicrobial stewardship and the development of new antibiotics.
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Central nervous system infection due to free-living amebae generally manifests as either acute meningitis or focal encephalitis.
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