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Compared with abstention, consumption of 1-6 drinks weekly of alcoholic beverages was associated with a lower risk of dementia among adults older than 65 years.
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The FDA recently approved gefitinib, an inhibitor of tyrosine kinase activity of the epidermal growth factor receptor, for the treatment of non-small-cell lung cancer.
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Rapid Magnetic Resonance Imaging vs Radiographs for Patients with Low Back Pain; Effectiveness of Anticholinergic Drugs Compared with Placebo in the Treatment of Overactive Bladder; A Randomized Trial of a Low Carbohydrate Diet for Obesity
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The ECG in the Figure was obtained from a 73-year-old man with documented coronary disease and heart failure. He now presents with a 10-day history of dyspnea. How would you interpret his ECG?
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Thomson American Health Consultants is happy to announce that we are opening up our Primary Care Reports author process to our readers. A biweekly newsletter with approximately 5000 readers, each issue is a fully referenced, peer-reviewed monograph.
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In an intent-to-treat analysis, the use of conjugated equine estrogen combined with continuous medroxyprogesterone acetate by menopausal women increased the hazard ratio of invasive breast cancer to 1.24.
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The data in this case-control study of combined estrogen plus progestin therapy revealed an increased risk of breast cancer, particularly invasive lobular tumor, regardless of whether the progestin component was taken sequentially or continuously.
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Birth weight discordancy of > 15% for same sex and > 30% for different sex confer greatest risk of adverse perinatal outcomes in the absence of abruption.
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Following radiation therapy, adjuvant extrafascial hysterectomy decreased the risk of relapse for patients with bulky stage IB cervical cancer without improving survival.
