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This study out of Vanderbilt examined a cohort of 788 eligible patients from their clinic who received their first highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) regimen for at least 30 days between January 1998 and January 2003 and had a baseline CD4 lymphocyte determination in the 180 days prior to initiating antiretrovirals or within 45 of starting treatment.
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There exists no consensus about the best means for diagnosing bloodstream infections related to intravascular devices (IVD), leading Safdar and colleagues to conduct a formal meta-analysis using the data supplied by 51 of the 185 studies published between 1966 and July 31, 2004, that met the selection criteria.
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A prospective, non-randomized, non-controlled trial was performed from 1995-2003 at 8 cities in Italy. Pregnant women with primary cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection during, or a few months before, pregnancy were identified by seroconversion, including 148 asymptomatic women, 8 symptomatic women with an acute illness, and 1 asymptomatic woman with fetal abnormalities on ultrasonography.
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Medical advances in recent decades have resulted in an increased frequency of invasive fungal infections. Specific patient-groups, such as the immunocompromised patients, are especially susceptible to fungal pathogens.
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Most physicians are aware that Roche withheld the distribution and sales of Tamiflu several weeks ago in order to prevent indiscriminate stock piling of drug badly needed for patients with Influenza A and B this coming winter.
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Treatments for Acute Migraine; Statin Therapy for ACS Patients; The Correct Dosing for Onychomycosis; FDA Actions
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Oxman and colleagues randomized 38,546 subjects greater than 60 years of age (median age, 69 years) to receive either 0.5 mL of attenuated Oka/Merck VZV vaccine or placebo, after which they were followed for a mean duration of 3.13 years, during which they were contacted monthly.
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The purpose of this meta-analysis was to assess the efficacy of subglottic secretion drainage in preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). Dezfulian and colleagues performed a comprehensive analysis of randomized trials that have compared subglottic secretion drainage with a standard endotracheal tube care in mechanically ventilated patients.
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We are now over 10 years into the era of haart (highly active antiretroviral therapy). The use of potent HIV protease inhibitors (or non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors), generally used in combination with a background of 2 nucleoside/nucleotide analog reverse transcriptase inhibitors, almost overnight changed the natural history of HIV disease.
