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I had practiced clinical infectious diseases for many years before starting work fulltime as an attending physician at our county hospital here in San Jose.
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Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infected patients have been shown to experience hypertriglyceridemia and/or hypercholesterolemia as a result of their highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), along with natural disease progression.
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In the midst of multiple outbreaks of norovirus infection in Maryland in 2004, infection control personnel at Johns Hopkins Hospital were notified that 2 healthcare workers (HCW) had acute gastroenteritis, resulting in the initiation of active surveillance of gastrointestinal illness among patients and staff.
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The May 23/30, 2007, issue of JAMA was devoted to malaria and contained an informative selection of papers. In particular, 2 articles were of particular interest to practitioners of travel medicine.
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Nothing short of a medical miracle occurred in 2004, when a 15-year old Wisconsin girl survived rabies encephalitis following a therapeutically induced coma, using a novel combination of ketamine, ribavirin, and amantadine.
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Lindau and colleagues sampled Americans aged 57 to 85 years, living independently in 2004 to learn about their sexual habits. A total of 1550 women and 1455 men were interviewed.
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The FDA has approved a product for topical anesthesia prior to venous access procedures such as venipuncture or peripheral intravenous cannulations in children.
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In an era of multiple randomized controlled trials that have documented the efficacy of antiresorption agents both to enhance bone mineral density and reduce osteoporotic fractures, there remains some uncertainty about the efficacy of calcium supplementation, vitamin D supplementation, or the combination.
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There is a cause for the slow ventricular rate that is seen in this 12-lead ECG, obtained from an 81-year-old man. What is the cause likely to be?
