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Health care clinicians and organizations likely will find that the new health care reform bill's positive features outweigh its drawbacks, experts say.
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Prabhakaran S, et al. Symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage among eligible warfarin-treated patients receiving intravenous tissue plasminogen activator for acute ischemic stroke. Arch Neurol 2010;67: (doi:10.1001/archneurol.2010.25).
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This large retrospective study reports an overall poor prognosis for patients with GBM, but treatment was not "state-of-the-art."
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This prospective case series reports on the efficacy and safety of levetiracetam in central nervous system gliomas.
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The presence of conjugate eye deviation as measured by CT or MRI in acute stroke patients predicts visuo-spatial neglect. Prismatic therapy produces a cross-modality improvement in left-sided auditory extinction in patients with chronic right-sided stroke.
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Transcranial magnetic stimulation of the brain may be a promising new therapy for the treatment of chronic tinnitus.
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Spinal cord sarcoidosis is difficult to diagnose and may be confused with multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica. Treatment response is variable.
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Prediabetes (PDM) is defined as either impaired fasting glucose (FBG = 100-125 mg/dL), impaired glucose tolerance (IGT; 2-hour post-load glucose = 140-199 mg/dL), or supranormal but not diabetic A1c (A1c = 5.7-6.4).
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An increase in dairy food intake produces significant and substantial suppression of oxidative and inflammatory stress associated with overweight and obesity.
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For-profit ownership, larger hospital size, and greater ICU use in the last 6 months of life was associated with increased rates of feeding tube insertion in nursing home residents with dementia who were admitted to acute care hospitals.