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Severe tongue protrusion dystonia is disabling and occasionally life-threatening, and may suggest either a secondary cause or particular heredodegenerative diseases.
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Wait and see prescriptions (WASP) is a new concept for the treatment of otitis media in children.
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Because of its impact on quality of life, insomnia is one of the most common problems for which patients seek help from the primary care physician.
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Everyone who provides care for patients in emergency departments is well aware of the annual winter-spring spike in patient volume due to influenza disease and its complications.
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In North America, rotavirus gastroenteritis is a predictable winter epidemic every year--young children presenting to emergency departments and outpatient clinics with fever, vomiting, diarrhea, and varying degrees of dehydration.
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In this randomized-controlled trial, Koeman and associates wanted to determine the effect of two oral decontaminating gels, chlorhexidine 2% (CHX) or chlorhexidine 2% plus colistin 2% (CHX/COL), compared to a placebo, on the development of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in patients requiring more than 48 hours of mechanical ventilation.
