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Ten Weeks of Yoga Improves Symptomatology in Women with PTSD
A 10-week “trauma-informed” yoga practice, more than health education classes, aided women with chronic, treatment-resistant PTSD.
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Electroacupuncture for Hot Flashes Among Breast Cancer Survivors
Electroacupuncture produces a greater placebo effect than oral medication when attempting to treat hot flashes in breast cancer survivors.
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Ebola: One Year Later
Here's what we learned from the latest outbreak.
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Clinical Briefs
In this section: improving cardiovascular outcomes through early treatment of diabetes; re-thinking PTSD treatment in veterans; and a link between rosacea and cardiovascular disease.
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Flibanserin Tablets (Addyi)
The FDA has approved the first drug for the treatment of hypoactive sexual desire disorder in women.
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The Impact of Hypoglycemia on Renal Impairment
A retrospective cohort study evaluated renal function data of 101 patients with type 2 diabetes and a history of severe hypoglycemia compared with a matched group of individuals with type 2 diabetes with no history of hypoglycemia.
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Efficacy and Safety of Very Early Mobilization After Onset of Acute Stroke
The higher dose, very early (within 24 hours) mobilization protocol was associated with a reduction in the odds of a favorable outcome at 3 months after stroke occurrence.
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SPRINT: The Systolic Blood Pressure Trial or ‘How Low Do You Go?’
Designed to see if lower blood pressures reduced the risk of blood pressure-related health outcomes, the NIH ended the SPRINT trial early and issued a news release that a lower blood pressure target significantly reduces cardiovascular complications in adults age 50 and older with high blood pressure.
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Valve Disease and Thromboembolic Risk
The CHA2DS2-VASc score for the prediction of stroke and other thromboembolism risk in patients with atrial fibrillation has been validated in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation.
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Using Procalcitonin to Differentiate Bacterial from Viral Meningitis
SYNOPSIS: A meta-analysis based on nine studies found an elevated serum procalcitonin to be an accurate test for differentiating bacterial from viral meningitis in adults.