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In the United States, 15% of all strokes are caused by intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH); and nonfamilial amyloid angiopathy (CAA), caused by beta-amyloid deposition in cerebral arteries and arterioles, is a major cause of lobar ICH, particularly in the elderly.
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Single cysticercal granulomas are more common in patients with lesser degrees of exposure to T. Solium eggs and these granulomas likely represent cysts that were killed by the host immune system early after infection.
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Migraine headaches are more common than tension-type headaches in children and adolescents. Being overweight, smoking, and being sedentary are associated with recurrent migraine and tension-type headaches in adolescents.
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The development of neuropathic pain after traumatic nerve injury is strongly influenced by premorbid personality traits that are dominated by "negative emotional states."
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In a study of extracranial and transcranial color-coded sonography, there was no impairment of cerebral venous drainage in patients with multiple sclerosis as compared to healthy controls.
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A nationwide survey conducted in March 2008 of 429 pediatricians and 419 family physicians in the United States with response rates of 81% and 79%, respectively, showed that 98% of pediatricians and 80% of family physicians were administering HPV vaccine in their offices.
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In this issue: Antiviral drugs and birth defects, bisphosphonates and esophageal cancer, naltrexone plus bupropion for weight loss, 2010-11 influenza vaccine, FDA Actions.
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As part of a longitudinal study of host/parasite relationships, which was initiated in two Senegalese villages in 1990 (and initially focused on malaria and tick-borne borreliosis), the potential of T. whipplei to cause infection in patients with fever of unknown etiology and negative test results for malaria was initiated in late 2008 and continued until the summer of 2009.
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Investigators in lausanne, switzerland cultured the noses of 405 new hospital workers for Staphylococcus aureus, then checked them again about nine months later.
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Two-hundred eleven adipose biopsies were obtained from 59 patients participating in the Western Australia HIV cohort study.