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Obesity currently is the nation's greatest public health challenge. Serious chronic disorders are rising rapidly among children, teens, and young adults.
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Critical hypoxemia in acute respiratory failure may be defined as a degree of impairment in tissue oxygenation that in and of itself, and separately from the primary cause of the respiratory failure threatens the life of the patient.
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A recent examination of the Medicare database illustrates that survival rates after in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) remained unchanged from 1992 to 2005.
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In a prior study, investigators at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center linked intraoperative contamination of patients' IV stopcocks with an increase in patient mortality.
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In this issue: Apixaban and rivaroxaban near approval for nonvalvular atrial fibrillation; fidaxomicin for C. difficile infections; guideline for intensive insulin therapy; and FDA Actions.
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A 58-year-old auto salesman was referred for initial management of metastatic pancreatic cancer. He had been well until approximately 3 months prior when he began to experience epigastric and mid-back pain.
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Approximately 10% of patients with newly diagnosed acute myelogenous (AML) leukemia have a history of prior treatment with chemotherapy, radiation, or both (t-AML).
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