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  • Penicillin vs Cephalosporin for Strep Throat — Which Is Better?

    Bacteriologic and clinical failures in adults with Streptococcal tonsillopharyngitis are twice as likely with oral penicillin therapy as with cephalosporin treatment. But, what is the significance of this finding?
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  • Alzheimer Brain Atrophy Rate Measured by Serial MRIs

    Techniques for accurately measuring the rates of brain atrophy from serial MRI images have improved significantly in recent years. A few of these techniques have been implemented in a partially or fully automated fashion, which is arguably a necessary precondition to their being applied clinically.
  • Cerebral Sinus Thrombosis

    Cerebral sinus thrombosis most commonly affects the superior sagittal sinus (up to 80%) or the transverse and sigmoid sinuses (70%), with concomitant involvement of the cortical veins in up to 40% of cases. Women are more commonly affected, reflecting their unique risk factors, including pregnancy, the puerperium, and oral contraceptive medication. Other risk factors include surgery, head and neck infections, head injury, malignancy, dehydration, and connective tissue diseases.
  • An Epidemic of Bell’s Palsy

    This paper examined the risk of Bells palsy after introduction of an inactivated intranasal influenza vaccine in Switzerland. Mutsch and associates used a matched case-control study and a case-series analysis.
  • Clinical Briefs

    Prevention of Cardiovascular Events with Low-Dose Aspirin and Vitamin in Type 2 Diabetic Patients; Cinnamon Improves Glucose and Lipids of People with Type 2 Diabetes; Depression Care on Pain and Functional Outcomes Among Adults with Arthritis
  • The Spousal Arousal Syndrome

    Previous work has demonstrated that bed partners of people with sleep apnea and snoring are at increased risk for depression, insomnia, and daytime sleepiness.
  • Full January 15, 2004, Issue in PDF

  • Clinical Briefs

    Combined Levothyroxine Plus Liothyronine Compared to Levothyroxine Alone in Primary Hypothyroidism; Specific Site Involvement in Fixed Drug Eruption; Anticoagulation Therapy for Stroke Prevention in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation
  • Best Office Test for Quadriceps Weakness

    Thirty-three consecutive patients with l3 or l4 radiculopathy were compared to 19 controls of comparable age to determine the best method for detecting quadriceps weakness in the office setting.