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Azithromycin is an effective, single-drug therapy for mild-to-moderate community-acquired pneumonia.
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Staphylococcus aureus is a versatile enemy. It is spreading in the community, as well as in the hospital, with increasing resistance to antibiotics. Its armamentarium now includes not only resistance to methicillin and vancomycin but also means of spread and pathogenic mechanisms we clearly need to know more aboutand soon.
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A Strategy to Reduce Cardiovascular Disease by More Than 80 Percent; Pearly Penile Papules: Still No Reason for Uneasiness; The Epidemiology of Major Depressive Disorder; Urinary Tetrahydroaldosterone as a Screen for Aldosteronism; Finasteride and Prostate Cancer; Impermeable Bed Covers in Patients with Allergic Rhinitis
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Vessey, Painter, and Yeates from the University of Oxford used the prospective cohort of women enrolled in the Oxford Family Planning Association Study to assess mortality in users and nonusers of oral contraceptives.
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Compared to histopathology, visual diagnosis of PID is neither accurate nor reproducible.
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Intraperitoneal chromic phosphate did not decrease the risk of relapse or improve survival for patients with stage III epithelial ovarian cancer after a negative second-look surgery.
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Port-site metastasis after laparoscopic surgery during chemotherapy, or when adequate chemotherapy has been given, is usually associated with poor outcome.
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Only 5% of white women and 0.6% of black women are potential candidates for tamoxifen chemoprevention.
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Daily administration of a low dose oral birth control pill results in significantly fewer bleeding days.
