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The standard surgical approach to ovarian cancer in medically fit patients is extirpation of the uterus, tubes, and ovaries, along with systematic staging or debulking of metastatic disease.
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The short-term risks of bariatric surgery; Parsing the death toll of COPD; Vardenafil and premature ejaculation; Testosterone, depression, and hypogonadal men; Aspirin after colon cancer diagnosis; The Emperor's new vertebroplasty?
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The energetic Christine Ginocchio (Director of Clinical and Molecular Microbiology Laboratories for North Shore-Long Island Jewish Healthcare System) began receiving an unusual gift beginning on April 24, 2009.
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Daptomycin is a lipopeptide antibiotic that exhibits concentration-dependent bactericidal activity against a wide array of gram-positive organisms.
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A study of immunoglobulin-resistant kawasaki disease in the United States was conducted using data from the Pediatric Health Information System. All patients diagnosed and treated for Kawasaki disease, including readmissions, were identified during 2001 to 2006 among 27 hospitals representing all geographic regions of the country.
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In response to a published metanalysis that concluded that cefepime use was associated with excess mortality, on November 14, 2007, the FDA published an "Early Communication About an Ongoing Safety Review of Cefepime (marketed as Maxipime)."
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Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV), a flavivirus, is transmitted by rice field-breeding mosquitoes who have fed on wild birds, the natural hosts, and domestic pigs, which serve as amplifying hosts.
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On April 8, 2009, the fda approved the use of Coartem® tablets in the treatment of acute, uncomplicated malaria in adults and in children weighing at least 5 kg. Coartem® tablets contain 20 mg artemether and 120 mg lumefantrine, each of which is a blood schizonticide but with dissimilar modes of action.
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A recent case of a 17-year-old presenting with acute psychiatric symptoms and possible meningoencephalitis prompted examination of this review article on Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infection (PANDAS).
