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The primary care physician who cares for couples in their childbearing years should encourage women and their partners to receive preconception care. The physician can enhance this opportunity by adopting a preconception focus during annual medical exams and asking the patients about their conception plans.
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FDA Approves Generic Version of AstraZenecas Prilosec; Pegasys
Approved To Treat Hepatitis C; HRT Reduces Alzheimers Risk, Study
Says; Heparin Plus Alteplase More Effective; Digoxin Effects Differ By
Sex; McClellan Named FDA Commissioner; FDA Actions
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Vitamin-Mineral Supplementation and Acute RTI in Elderly; B-Type
Natriuretic Peptide Levels and Outcome in Heart Failure; Companion
Influence During Primary Care Encounters; Handrubbing with
Alcohol-Based Solution vs. Standard Handwashing; Program To Prevent
Functional Decline in Frail Elderly Who Live at Home; Treatment of
Diabetic Neuropathy with Isosorbide Dinitrate Spray
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A seizure is an abnormal, hypersynchronous discharge of a population of cortical neurons that may be associated with clinical manifestations corresponding to the area of the brain involved. Epilepsy is a disorder of the central nervous system in which symptoms are 2 or more seizures greater than 24 hours apart, not provoked by another cause.
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With a new year unfolding, Drug Utilization Review (DUR) takes this opportunity to look ahead at pharmacy practice, regulation, and the continued battle for pharmacists to receive provider status.
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An investigational vaccine has reduced the incidence of both human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV-16) infection and HPV-16-related cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (pre-cancer of the cervix), according to research published in the Nov. 21, 2002, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Fondaparinux sodium (Arixtra) is the first of a new class of synthetic antithrombotic agents, known as the selective Factor-Xa inhibitors.
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