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Left unchecked, stress can have significant effects on your overall health and well-being. Stress can impair your immune system, making you more susceptible to infections, and can increase your risk of cardiovascular disease.
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Lee R. Kava: Piper methysticum. Altern Med Alert 2007;10(5):49-55.
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Greenfield RH. Tai gee! Immune augmentation and tai chi. Altern Med Alert 2007;10(5):59-60.
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Marcolina ST. Nonpharmacologic management of migraine. Altern Med Alert 2007;10(5):55-58.
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IBS-Drug Treatment Pulled, CV Side Effects; Drug Combo Better for Migraine Treatment; Pergolide Off the Market, Heart Disease Risk; Hormone Treatment, Does Timing Matter?; FDA Actions
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Quinolone-Resistant Neisseria Gonorrhea (QRNG) continues to spread with alarming frequency across the United States.
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A group of staphylococcal investigators from Lyon, France, and Houston, Texas, have been working for years to show the importance of toxins in the pathogenesis of S. aureus infections. The group of Jerome Etienne and Francois Vandenesch in Lyon have already shown the propensity of strains containing the PVL toxin to produce fatal necrotizing pneumonia in children.
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Data collected by the Active Bacterial Core surveillance (ABCs) system in 2005 found that the incidence of invasive MRSA infections in patients undergoing dialysis was 45.2 per 1,000 population, an incidence far in excess of that estimated for the general population (0.2 to 0.4 per 1,000 population).
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ACTG 328 was a multicenter trial that studied HIV-1 infected adults without active AIDS-defining illnesses and with CD4+ lymphocyte counts between 50 and 350/uL. Patients were protease inhibitor (PI) and IL-2 naïve but may have received prior nucleoside analogue therapy.