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Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are frequently encountered in clinical medicine. According to the Centers for Disease Control, approximately 2.8 million infections with Chlamydia trachomatis1 and 700,000 infections with Neisseria gonorrhea2 occur annually in the United States. Viral sexually transmitted diseases are frequently incurable, so prevalence data are a better measure of the overall burden of disease.
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In this issue: Side effects of statins; effects of cannabis use; antihypertensives and lip cancer; and FDA actions.
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These three papers and an accompanying editorial1 in a recent issue of the Journal of Travel Medicine form a mini-symposium on pediatric travel medicine. Each gives a glimpse of problems experienced by children traveling internationally and nicely contributes to the limited literature on this topic.
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NTDs are a group of infectious diseases that are common among the world's poorest people.
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Uwanyiligira et al retrospectively analyzed charts of all patients seen at the Travel Clinic of the University Hospital in Lausanne, Switzerland, for rabies post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) between January 2005 and August 2011.
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At the June 20, 2012 meeting in Atlanta, Georgia the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices [ACIP] voted in favor of recommending the addition of 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) to the 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPSV23) for adults aged 19 and older with immunocompromising conditions.
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Side effects of statins; effects of cannabis use; antihypertensives and lip cancer; and FDA actions.
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Compared with a low-fat diet, low-glycemic index and very low-carbohydrate diets resulted in higher resting and total energy expenditure (thus more calories burned) during the weight loss maintenance phase after a low-calorie diet.
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