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Common Headache Disorders: Diagnosis and Management, Part II
This issue of Primary Care Reports concludes the series on headache disorders. Part I covered headache history, physical examination, diagnostic testing, and differential. Part II addresses common headache diagnoses and their management. -
Primary Care Reports - Full December 2009 Issue in PDF
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Clinical Briefs in Primary Care Supplement
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Pharmacology Watch: Dabigatran: An Oral Direct Thrombin Inhibitor
n this issue: Results from a Phase 3 study of dabigatran, intensive lipid-lowering in CVD, H1N1 vaccine dosing and efficacy, and FDA Actions. -
Updates By Carol A. Kemper, MD, FACP
Eleven heroin users in Northern England and Scotland, as well as a possible twelfth, have been diagnosed with anthrax infection; five have died. -
Preventing Malaria by Vaccination
Nearly half of the world's population live in malaria-endemic geographic regions, and more than one million African children die of malaria each year. Vaccine development continues. -
Persistent Infection with West Nile Virus
A longitudinal study of hospitalized WNV patients in Houston was initiated in 2002. A total of 112 patients remain in the cohort. -
Infectious Disease Alert February 2010 Issue in PDF
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Clinical Briefs in Primary Care supplement
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Rapid Diagnostic Tests vs. Blood Smears for the Diagnosis of Malaria in the United States
Malaria is one of the most important diagnostic considerations in febrile returned travelers and can be fatal if not appropriately diagnosed and treated.