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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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Lipid-lowering therapy reduces stroke incidence in coronary patients, especially when total cholesterol level is lowered to less than 232 mg/dL (6.0 mmol/L), which explains the best results being obtained with statins.
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Computer keyboards may serve as reservoirs for serious nosocomial pathogens.
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Iontophoresis was more effective than placebo in relieving tennis elbow symptoms in the short term.
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Even in physician-diagnosed peptic ulcer disease, test-and-treat strategy for H pylori did not reduce costs, and use of acid-reducing medications remained very high.
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An update on Oregons assisted suicide program since it became legal in 1997.
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Cirrhosis-related parkinsonism may represent a unique, consistent, and common subset of acquired hepatocerebral degeneration, whose features are permanent and entirely different from acute hepatic encephalopathy episodes.
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Aripiprazole is a new antipsychotic agent approved for the treatment of schizophrenia. This atypical agent is a quinolinone that has partial agonist activity at dopamine D2 receptors. The drug will be marketed as being better tolerated and safer than other atypical agents, as well as being dosed once a day.
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Increase in Blood Glucose Concentration During Antihypertensive Treatment as a Predictor of Myocardial Infarction; Adverse Drug Events in Ambulatory Care; Prevention of Hip Fracture by External Hip Protectors
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This study concludes that there may be a direct association between ischemia and the development of Alzheimers pathology (plaques and neurofibrillary tangles), or alternatively, ischemia may unmask otherwise mild cases of AD.