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Hand hygiene and facemasks used within 36 hours of patient symptom onset resulted in a small reduction of household transmission of influenza, but adherence to recommended practices was poor despite home-based education.
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Sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) is a protein that might seem to be most interesting to the endocrinologist, since its sole function - until very recently - has been thought to be regulation of the availability of gonadal steroids.
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The FDA has granted market approval for pitava-statin, the seventh HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor, or "statin." It is a high-potency statin similar to rosuvastatin and atorvastatin.
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Less than one-third of health care workers with probable or possible patient-to-health care provider transmission of H1N1 reported consistently using a surgical mask or N95 respirator.
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The ECG tracing shown above was obtained from a 50-year-old man with a history of longstanding hypertension.
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Procalcitonin (PCT) is a laboratory metric that helps to distinguish bacterial from viral infections. PCT measurement has been previously shown to help identify bacterial infections in patients presenting with otitis media and other respiratory infections.
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The authors of this meta-analysis conclude that their results support the use of aggressive insulin-lowering therapy to reduce major CV outcomes but not all-cause mortality; further, they recommend vigilance in avoiding hypoglycemia while steadily reducing HbA1c.
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The efficacy of percutaneous closure of the LAA with the WATCHMAN® left atrial closure device was found to be non-inferior to that of standard warfarin therapy for prevention of stroke, cardiovascular death, and/or systemic embolism and, therefore, the device might provide an alternative strategy to chronic warfarin therapy for stroke prophylaxis in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation.
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The ninth atypical antipsychotic agent has been approved by the FDA. Asenapine is somewhat unique in the class with different receptor binding than risperidone and olanzapine.
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Most colorectal cancers overexpress cyclo-oxygenase 2 (COX-2). Primary prevention with aspirin (ASA) is associated with reduced risk for colon cancer and colonic adenoma.