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Eltrombopag is a thrombopoietin (TPO) receptor agonist approved by the FDA for the treatment of thrombocytopenia.
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The women's health initiative (WHI) provided convincing evidence that the use of estrogen plus progesterone (E+P) in postmenopausal women is associated with an increased risk of breast cancer.
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The ECG shown above was a baseline tracing obtained during the initial visit with a new primary care provider. How would you interpret the tracing? What do you suspect happened in the past?
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This is the first study documenting that a PPI compromises the mucosal barrier function of the upper GI tract.
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For the past decade, patient safety and quality care and all the assistant care policies and standards associated with quality initiatives have been directed at improving efficiencies of both cost and process within health care institutions.
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At the urging of the Obama administration, a policy to rescind the so-called "rules of conscience" for health care providers means that battle lines have been drawn once again over the question of when life begins among other moral and scientific questions in reproductive health.
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The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) reported that the nation's hospice community "claimed a significant victory" when President Obama signed The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
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While some focus on the specific policies and standards of achieving a safe, quality health care system in the United States within the existing system, Laurie Zoloth, PhD, professor of bioethics at Northwestern University in Chicago, suggests a broader approach is necessary to achieve "healthy health care systems."
