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A strategy of annual screening of blood pressure was as sensitive and more specific than the usual practice of measuring it at every office visit.
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Whats the Durability of Lifestyle Change in Type 2 Diabetes?; Perimenstrual Asthma: A High-Risk Phenotype; Risk of New Onset Diabetes with Statins
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A second ezetimbe/statin combination has been approved by the FDA for the treatment of hyperlipidemia. Ezetimibe is now combined with atorvastatin and is marketed by Merck & Co. as Liptruzet.
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Exercise, both aerobic as well as stretching and strengthening, improves motor function and gait in patients with Parkinsons disease.
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Remember that scene in Doc Martin when he travels to London for a conference, and while his lady awaits his affection in a tiny negligee, he methodically strips the bed looking for bed bugs? How many of us make that a habit now when traveling?
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In the U.S., tigecycline has received indications for use in the treatment of complicated skin and skin structure infections (cSSSI), complicated intra-abdominal infections (cIAI), and community-acquired bacterial pneumonia (CABP) caused by susceptible strains of designated bacteria.
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It has been hypothesized that the cord colitis syndrome, a complication of umbilical-cord hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation, is infectious in origin.
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Fluconazole during pregnancy, does lower dose lower risk?; ID consultants lower mortality and cost of hospital stay; Antiphospholipid Syndrome masquerading as infection
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The prevailing theory of Clostridium difficile transmission is that most cases occur after recent exposure to symptomatic patients in health care settings.
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As a result of the shutdown of the federal government, approximately 9000 of the 14,000 CDC employees were placed on furlough. On October 8th, however, 30 of the furloughed employees were recalled to assist in the response to an epidemic of Salmonella Heidelberg infections.