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The ECG shown above was obtained from a 50-year-old woman with "skipped beats." Is there anything unusual about these ectopic beats and the effect that they have on the normal beats in this tracing? What happens at the onset of the last lead change (i.e., at the onset where we see leads V4,V5,V6)?
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More than three-fourths of men have some degree of male pattern hair loss by age 70. The unwanted hair loss seen in male pattern hair loss is stimulated by dihydrotestosterone.
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Replacing saturated fatty acids with carbohydrates with low glycemic index values is associated with a lower risk of myocardial infarction.
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In a sample of patients from primary care practice, a single screening question accurately identified drug use.
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Lorcaserin submitted for FDA review, FDA advisory panel votes against phentermine/topiramate, mixed vote on rosiglitazone, advisory panel votes to remove breast cancer indication from bevacizumab labeling, no increase in seizures found with DTaP vaccine, new REMS for quinine.
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A new three-drug antihypertensive pill, combining an angiotensin II receptor antagonist (olmesartan [OLM]), a calcium channel blocker (amlodipine [AML]), and a thiazide diuretic (hydrochlorothiazide [HCTZ]), has been approved by the FDA. The new combination is marketed by Daiichi Sankyo as Tribenzor.
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Vital exhaustion predicts long-term risk for adverse cardiac events in men and women, independent of established biomedical risk factors.
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A nationwide survey conducted in March 2008 of 429 pediatricians and 419 family physicians in the United States with response rates of 81% and 79%, respectively, showed that 98% of pediatricians and 80% of family physicians were administering HPV vaccine in their offices.
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In this issue: Antiviral drugs and birth defects, bisphosphonates and esophageal cancer, naltrexone plus bupropion for weight loss, 2010-11 influenza vaccine, FDA Actions.
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As part of a longitudinal study of host/parasite relationships, which was initiated in two Senegalese villages in 1990 (and initially focused on malaria and tick-borne borreliosis), the potential of T. whipplei to cause infection in patients with fever of unknown etiology and negative test results for malaria was initiated in late 2008 and continued until the summer of 2009.