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The National Cholesterol Education Program, a product of a collaboration of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institutes, the American College of Cardiology, and the American Heart Association, has updated its clinical practice guideline on cholesterol management.
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Methylprednisolone significantly improves the recovery of peripheral vestibular function in patients with vestibular neuritis, whereas valacyclovir does not.
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Absence of evidence-based medicine is both humbling, as well as a reminder of how substantial a role the art and oral tradition of medicine plays in the care of neurologic patients.
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These studies provide additional data about the higher risk of relapse, and the greater potential for progression of disability following childbirth.
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It seems prudent to strongly consider use of melatonin in our cognitively delayed patients with disordered sleep, but to monitor those with epilepsy very closely for exacerbation, and withdraw the drug.
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The hundreds of presentations at this meeting provided encouraging evidence that existing Alzheimers therapies may have greater benefits than first realized, and that a new generation of potential disease-modifying therapies for AD may be on the way.
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Patients who received hyperoxia during general surgery had an increase in surgical site infections compared to those who received a lower oxygen concentration.
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The gold standard in the era of EBM is the randomized controlled trial (RCT). A properly designed and carried out RCT, in patients similar to those the practitioner manages and using end points relevant to both practitioner and patient, is more likely to be free from bias and to produce results that will stand up over time than other types of investigation such as retrospective analyses, case-control studies, and unsystematic clinical observations.
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