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Do Corticosteroids Play a Role in the Treatment of Community-acquired Pneumonia?
Despite antibiotic therapy and hospital-based care, severe community-acquired pneumonia still carries a high risk for morbidity and mortality.
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Strategies to Improve Opioid Prescribing
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Aromatherapy: A Replacement for Antidepressants?
This randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of an oral preparation of the essential oil of lavender showed that it is more effective for the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder than either placebo or an SSRI.
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Curcuminoids for Inflammation and Oxidative Stress Levels in Individuals with Metabolic Syndrome
Bioavailable cucuminoids were found to reduce oxidative stress and inflammation in individuals diagnosed with metabolic syndrome. Superoxide dismutase activity, malondialdehyde, and C-reactive protein (CRP) concentration were each significantly improved after short-term (8 weeks) of supplementation with curcuminoids. Meta-analysis of eight other studies investigating the impact of curcuminoids on various health parameters, including serum CRP concentration, also found a significant reduction of CRP with curcuminoid supplementation.
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Managing IBS with Semi-permanent Embedded Fibers at Acupuncture Sites
Catgut-embedded acupuncture, which involves embedding fibers of animal intestines into the skin at acupuncture points, improved abdominal pain, constipation, and bloating as well as symptoms of depression among patients with irritable bowel syndrome compared to both sham acupuncture and conventional drug therapy.
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Blueberry Consumption Improves Blood Pressure and Arterial Stiffness in Postmenopausal Women with Hypertension
This randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study demonstrated that consumption of freeze-dried blueberry powder twice daily for 8 weeks improved blood pressure and measurements of arterial stiffness in postmenopausal women with pre- or stage 1 hypertension.
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Athlete’s Heart vs Brugada ECG
The normal variant ECG seen predominantly in highly trained athletes of domed ST segment elevation, and negative T waves in V1-V3 can be confused with some of the ECG patterns in Brugada syndrome patients.
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Intracranial Clot Extraction Results in Better Outcomes than Intravenous Thrombolysis Alone
This article will discuss three studies that have been recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine — MR CLEAN, ESCAPE, and EXTEND — regarding intracranial clot extraction for acute ischemic stroke
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Cardiac Sarcoidosis: Rare or Underdiagnosed?
There is increasing evidence that sarcoidosis can be confined to the heart, but disagreements abound about the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac sarcoidosis (CS).
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SIMPLE Is Better – ICD Defibrillation Testing Does Not Improve Outcomes
Traditionally, the placement of an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) concludes with induction of ventricular fibrillation (VF) to confirm that the new device is able to appropriately sense the arrhythmia and terminate it while there is still the opportunity to reposition the ventricular lead or add an additional lead if necessary.