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Imiquimod is safe and effective in the treatment of actinic keratoses.
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Ogburn and colleagues report on their experience with adnexal torsion at one university medical center from 1990 to 2001. A chart review identified 68 patients in whom laparoscopic management was accomplished 32% of the time (n = 22) and ovarian conservation in 21% (n = 14).
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Should Empiric Treatment be Given to women with UTI Sx but negative U/A?; Is Routine Fundoscopy Worth the Bother in Hypertension?; Autoantibody Signatures in Prostate Cancer
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The FDA has approved nelarabine for the treatment of T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) and lymphoblastic leukemia (T-LBL). Nelarabine was approved under the FDAs accelerated approval program. It received an Orphan Designation because it is for a rare disease affecting less than 200,000 in the United States. Nelarabine is marketed by GlaxoSmithKline as Arranon®.
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The use of an attenuated varicella zoster virus vaccine, many times more potent than that used in children for the prevention of chickenpox, was effective in the prevention of both herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia in individuals 60 years of age and older.
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Death rates in the year after bariatric surgery were high (4.6%), and were higher for men, for those older than 65, and for those whose surgeon performed fewer than 35 such operations a year.
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Esomeprazole 20 mg and 40 mg daily improve upper GI symptoms occurring during NSAID therapy including selective COX-2 inhibitors.
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Sustained release bupropion treatment is an efficacious aid to smoking cessation for patients at risk for and with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.