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Erectile Dysfunction and Subsequent Cardiovascular Disease; Oseltamivir Resistance during Influenza A Infection; Dietary Intake of Antioxidants and AMD
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Can Calcium and Vitamin D Prevent Hip Fractures?; Treatment of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia; Treatment of Osteoarthritis of the Knee; Refractory Asthma and TNFConnection?; FDA Actions
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Cardiovascular disease affects 25% of the U.S. population. It is responsible for more than 1 million deaths each year, which makes it the number one killer in the United States. Fifty percent of men and 64% of women who suffer from sudden cardiac death have no previous history or symptoms of heart disease.
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Fungal infections are becoming more prevalent, as Candida spp. represent the fourth most common organism recovered from blood of hospitalized patients in the United States.
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The laboratory group from the Pasteur Institute and inserm screened for CCR5 coding region polymorphisms in 3 groups of Vietnamese subjects, including 47 HIV-1 infected intravenous drug users (IDUs), 50 highly HIV-1 exposed but seronegative IDUs, and 37 HIV-1 unexposed seronegative individuals.
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Following the introduction of more highly active antiretroviral therapy in ~1995, epidemiologists observed a 50% decrease in rates of invasive pneumococcal disease in persons with HIV/AIDS.
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Shan and colleagues examined outcomes of 18 gastrointestinal surgery patients with invasive candidiasis who were treated preemptively based on clinical criteria from 1999 through 2002, and compared them to outcomes of 18 patients treated only on the basis of positive blood cultures or other unequivocal evidence of deep infection from 1995 through 1998.
