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Patients with myopathies induced by lipid-lowering drugs, including statins and fibrates, have an increased rate of genetic muscle disorders.
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Until now, neurologists have relied on large studies of patients with coronary atherosclerosis and hyperlipidemia who were treated with statins and were found, as a secondary outcome, to have a reduced risk of ischemic stroke.
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The introduction of therapy animals and pets in the health care setting has created unique opportunities and challenges for infection control personnelproblems that DiSalvo and colleagues point out can be blurred by confusion between various animal programs.
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Daptomycin is a cyclic lipopeptide antibiotic which was initially approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of complicated skin and skin-skin structure infections in September 2003.
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Over 63,000 healthy infants from 11 latin american countries and Finland were randomized to receive either 2 oral doses of a live, attenuated human rotavirus vaccine or placebo at 2 and 4 months of age.
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Active migraine with aura increases risk of myocardial infarction, coronary revascularization, and angina, as well as ischemic stroke. Active migraine without aura and non-migraine headaches are not associated with increased vascular risk.
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This retrospective 'real-life' single-center study found that therapeutic hypothermia could be readily implemented and that it improved outcomes in patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
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Greenfield RH. A Q "tip"-CoQ10 for heart failure. Altern Med Alert 2006;9(10):120.