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Lixisenatide Injection (Adlyxin)
Lixisenatide is indicated as an adjunct to diet and exercise to improve glycemic control in adults suffering from type 2 diabetes mellitus.
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Dual Antiplatelet Therapy Appears More Effective Than Single Therapy
It appears short-term dual antiplatelet therapy is superior to prolonged treatment, but a difference in outcome must be confirmed by further well-designed randomized, clinical trials.
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Greater Weight Loss Later in Life Associated with Increased Risk of Mild Cognitive Impairment
In a population-based, prospective study of subjects ≥ 70 years of age, increasing weight loss per decade from midlife to late-life was associated with an increased risk of incident mild cognitive impairment.
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Wheat Causes Intestinal Immune Activation in Some Patients Without Celiac Disease
Some patients without celiac disease may exhibit wheat sensitivity with demonstrated intestinal epithelial cell damage.
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Too Little of a Good Thing Can Be a Bad Thing
A healthy lifestyle may substantially reduce the burden of cancer.
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Will a Mysterious Outbreak of Elizabethkingia End Unsolved?
Unable to determine the source of an inexplicable outbreak of Elizabethkingia anopheles in Wisconsin and two other states, investigators are inviting the survivors of the infection to participate in focus groups and see if they can find a common link that preceded their illness.
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Antibiotic Use Reductions May Decrease Clostridium difficile
Two recent developments limiting antibiotic use could have a secondary benefit of reducing Clostridium difficile infections, which have been the bane of infection preventionists since emerging in a highly virulent strain some 15 years ago.
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Strange Cases of Zika Transmission
Zika virus is proving nothing if not unpredictable as we now also have a strange case of apparent transmission to a caregiver from a dying patient as well as the first documented case of apparent female-to-male sexual transmission.
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Zika Mosquito Spread Begins In Miami
As this issue went to press, public health officials in Miami confirmed the first local cases of Zika transmission in the United States via mosquitoes.
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Drug Diversion: A New Sheriff in Town
After a series of highly publicized drug diversion incidents by healthcare workers and patient outbreaks in Colorado in recent years, the state has passed a law that requires surgical technologists to register and submit to background checks.