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Acute and chronic head and face pain occur after craniotomies for a variety of intracranial lesions. Persistent postoperative pain is more common in women and is associated with depression and anxiety.
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The diagnosis of malaria has traditionally relied upon microscopy. However, microscopic diagnosis is labor intensive and somewhat subjective, and assurance of quality standards can be difficult at best.
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Sixty-one hospitals in 28 countries participated in a prospective cohort study of hospitalized patients with definite endocarditis.
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This multicenter, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of a synthetic GHRH analogue, tesamorelin (1-44 amino acids from the amino terminal of GHRH with a trans-3-hexenoyl group added to the amino terminal to increase the half-life over native GHRH), randomized 412 patients (86% male) to daily subcutaneous tesamorelin vs placebo for 26 weeks.
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Refugees resettling to the United States and other developed countries frequently suffer from infectious diseases, and can pose diagnostic or therapeutic dilemmas for health care providers in their new homes.
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Castleman Disease, a rare lymphoproliferative disorder characterized by fever, lymphadenopathy, splenomegaly, high sedimentation rates, and polyclonal hypergammaglobulinemia, is being seen with increasing frequency in HIV-positive persons.
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The UK Department of Health has instituted measures they believe will prevent hospital acquired infections.
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A nested PCR Method was used to identify and speciate cases of malaria in two regions of Malaysia. This study showed a significant proportion of patients to have been infected with P. knowlesi, a pathogen of Old World macaques and previously rarely recognized in humans.