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Multimodal brain imaging demonstrates extensive frontostriatal dysfunction in mild cognitive impairment in early Parkinson's disease.
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Side effects of finasteride; new ruling on pharmaceutical companies paying generic manufacturers; and FDA actions.
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In this long-term, population-based patient series, the authors explore the natural course of drug-resistant epilepsy and explore whether remission can be predicted by clinical features.
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Analysis of intracranial pressure complexity using a non-linear method of multiscale entropy shows that it correlates with outcome after traumatic brain injury.
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Mesenchymal stem cells for the treatment of multiple system atrophy is a promising potential therapy, but requires further investigation regarding both safety and efficacy.
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Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are frequently encountered in clinical medicine. According to the Centers for Disease Control, approximately 2.8 million infections with Chlamydia trachomatis and 700,000 infections with Neisseria gonorrhea occur annually in the United States.
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The ED is a common setting for the initial evaluation of emotional and behavioral disorders, including suicidal behavior or attempts. In the United States, approximately 2 million adolescents attempt suicide each year. As the number of visits by adolescents to the ED rises and the availability of outpatient mental health services diminishes, the ED physician must be not only able to stabilize the patient medically, but also should be comfortable with differentiating organic from psychiatric disease, performing a targeted psychosocial interview, initiating treatment, and arranging for disposition.
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You know there is a problem when the average wait time to see a provider is in the four-to-five-hour range, and 3% to 7% of incoming patients are routinely leaving the ED without being seen (LWBS).
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The Joint Commission (TJC) is in the process of developing new tools, solutions, and performance measures aimed at improving the processes used to transition patients from one health care setting to another.
