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An objective, laboratory based diagnostic tool for depression would be extremely helpful to primary care physicians. This study using nine biomarkers holds promise that a blood test may be able to identify depressed patients among non-depressed primary care patients
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The 12-lead ECG and accompanying rhythm strip in the Figure were obtained from an 84-year-old man who presented to the Emergency Department with acute dyspnea from pneumonia and heart failure. Whats going on?
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Efficacy of Handrubbing with Alcohol-Based Solution vs. Standard Handwashing with Antiseptic Soap: Randomized Clinical Trial; A Program To Prevent Functional Decline in Physically Frail, Elderly Persons Who Live at Home; Treatment of Chronic Painful Diabetic Neuropathy with Isosorbide Dinitrate Spray
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This study assessed the effectiveness of oral melatonin taken in different dosage regimens for alleviating jet-lag after air travel across several time zones.
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Debate over the cardiovascular effects of COX-2 inhibitors has raged
for more than a year since a special communication was published in
JAMA last August suggesting an increase in cardiovascular events with
rofecoxib (Vioxx). Now a large retrospect, the cohort study from the
Tennessee Medicaid program seems to confirm the prothrombotic effects
of rofecoxib, at least in high dose.
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GlaxoSmithKline is expected to launch a new drug for benign prostatic hypertrophy in December. Dutasteride is a 5 alpha-reductase inhibitor, which was previously approved in November 2001 but not launched.
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Among patients being evaluated for chronic cough, women are more sensitive than men to inhalation of tussive agents.
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Expanding upon their earlier study that demonstrated that spouses of hypertensive patients are more likely to be hypertensive themselves, these British researchers studied couples to determine whether other illnesses exhibited the same association.
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There is evidence that diet could play a role in Alzheimer's disease (AD) risk. This epidemiologic study examined the risk of AD between quartiles of calorie, carbohydrate, fat, and protein intake after adjusting for confounders.
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Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring is a useful adjunct for evaluating white coat hypertension, but little is known about its effect on BP. Thus, Hermida and associates from Spain studied 538 patients with mild-to-moderate office hypertension using ABPM for 48 hours.
