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Arnold and colleagues at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis performed a 6-year retrospective cohort study of patients with bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) documented ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), diagnosed by accepted clinical and quantitative culture criteria, that was caused by either Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) and Acinetobacter baumannii(AB).
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This paper reports on the findings of a systematic literature review on noise and noise-reduction strategies in the intensive care unit (ICU).
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When a brain biopsy is being considered for a nonmalignant condition, the patients and the site of biopsy must be carefully selected to ensure the most useful results.
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Antihypertensive treatment reduces the incidence of headache compared to placebo, but the magnitude of the effect differs between drug classes independent of the magnitude of blood pressure reduction. Dysautoregulation in the anterior and posterior circulation is associated with migraine with aura.
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In a post-hoc analysis, rasagiline, as an adjunct to levodopa, is both efficacious in reducing "off" time and well-tolerated in individuals older than 70 years with moderate-to-advanced Parkinson's disease.
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Necrotizing myositis is a newly described inflammatory myopathy that has an autoimmune etiology and may be associated with anti-signal recognition particle autoantibodies.
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Statins and diabetes risk; new treatment guideline for diabetes; new pertussis vaccine recommendation; antibiotics and rhinosinusitis; fluoroquinolones and cystitis; and FDA actions.
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Preliminary trials of low-dose intranasal insulin suggest a possible benefit that warrants further investigation.
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