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IVIG is safe and effective for worsening MG, but has no effect on the natural course of Miller Fisher syndrome.
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Many patients with Parkinson disease have normalization of movement during REM sleep, similar to the beneficial effects of levodopa while they are awake.
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Occipital nerve stimulation appears to decrease the cluster pain and attack frequency in most, but not all, patients with chronic drug-resistant cluster headaches.
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Health care providers in less populated cities and states are seeing increases in both their general immigrant populations and their HIV-infected immigrant populations.
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IBS-Drug Treatment Pulled, CV Side Effects; Drug Combo Better for Migraine Treatment; Pergolide Off the Market, Heart Disease Risk; Hormone Treatment, Does Timing Matter?; FDA Actions
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Even though multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extensively drug resistant (XDR) TB are at extremely low levels in the United States, the cost of a single infection is staggering, Julie Gerberding, MD, MPH, director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently told Congress.
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A review of evaluable multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) cases that occurred in the United States from 1993 to 2006 found that 49 (3%) met the definition for extensively drug-resistant XDR-TB cases. Of those, 17 (35%) were reported during 2000-2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.
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If extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) emerges to become an infection control threat in the nation's hospitals, the lessons learned from past outbreaks will prove invaluable.
