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Those receiving spiritual support from medical personnel rather than community-based religious organizations were more likely to receive hospice care at the end of life.
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Supplementing patients with Parkinson's disease with 1200 IU of vitamin D3 may stabilize Parkinson's disease symptoms in patients with vitamin D receptor CT and TT genotypes but not the FokI CC genotype.
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This prospective trial performed at an infertility clinic in Brazil randomized 84 women who had at least two prior failed in vitro fertilization (IVF) attempts to three groups. The first group had acupuncture plus moxibustion in addition to IVF, the second had sham acupuncture and IVF, and the third group only underwent IVF.
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Prognostic Value of Ambulatory Blood-Pressure Recordings in Patients with Treated Hypertension; Tazarotene Cream in the Treatment of Psoriasis; Antihyperglycemic Effect of Oolong Tea in Type 2 Diabetes
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This is the first study to convincingly demonstrate a strong dose-dependent relationship between increasing weight and increasing symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux.
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Taking into consideration the limitations of this study, it is time to for sliding-scale insulin to join bloodletting and trepanation in the Museum of Medical Anachronisms.
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While the numbers of cases of West Nile virus infection in the United States were relatively small from 1999 through 2001, in 2002 an epidemiologic explosion occurred with 4156 cases, including 284 deaths, in 44 states plus the District of Columbia.
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The Women's Health Initiative (WHI) was halted 1 year ago, but fallout
from this landmark study continues. The study was designed to identify
the risks or benefits of estrogen plus progesterone vs placebo in
healthy postmenopausal women.
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Liebowitz RS. L-carnitine and Heart Disease. Altern Med Alert 2003;6(8):88-90.
