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Bezlotoxumab Injection (Zinplava)
Bezlotoxumab neutralizes the effect of toxin B and reduces the rate of recurrence of C. difficile infection.
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Is Yoga Effective for Treating Asthma?
Although the data on yoga in asthma are only of moderate quality, they suggest that yoga may improve quality of life and asthma symptoms.
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What Influences ICU Admission?
High ICU utilization hospitals were more likely to use invasive procedures and incurred higher costs than low ICU utilization hospitals with no difference in mortality.
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Is Anxiety a Risk Factor for Cardiovascular Disease?
Anxiety disorders are associated with an elevated risk of a range of different cardiovascular events including stroke, coronary heart disease, heart failure, and cardiovascular deaths, but it is unclear whether these disorders are causal in nature.
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Clinical Briefs
In this section: treating refractory chronic pruritus, accelerating weight loss with technology, and lowering uric acid in gout patients.
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Eteplirsen Injection (Exondys 51)
Eteplirsen is indicated for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) in patients who present with confirmed mutation of the DMD gene that is amenable to exon 51 skipping.
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Warning: Reactivation of Hepatitis B Virus Coinfection During Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection
Prior to initiation of hepatitis C virus treatment with direct-acting antivirals, patients should be screened for hepatitis B virus coinfection.
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Changing Gut Microbiota to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes
The long-term consumption of a healthy diet, such as the Mediterranean diet or low-fat/high complex carbohydrate diets, may exert a protective effect on the development of type 2 diabetes by changing the gut microbiota.
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Statins Associated with Lower Parkinson’s Risk in Diabetics
In approximately 50,000 individuals with Parkinson’s disease and diabetes, identified from a National Health Insurance database in Taiwan, statin use was dose-dependently associated with lower risk of Parkinson’s disease.
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Why Do the Beats Keep Changing?
What clinical situation commonly is associated with arrhythmias such as the one shown in this figure?