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Diagnostics
Gail model, used to evaluate breast cancer risk, includes some individual variables (age, menarche age, family anamnesis, presence of previous breast biopsies, age of the first delivery) and is applied above all to white females.
MedNews - Fri, 22 December 2006
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Cardiology
ACE-inhibitors reduce mortality and infarction in patients with heart failure or ventricular dysfunction. But are these positive effects present also in patients with coronary diseases without ventricular dysfunction?
MedNews - Fri, 22 December 2006
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Orthopaedics
In a 2003 study some researchers had compared two different ways to treat plantar fasciitis: 82 patients who have been presenting this inflammation for at least 10 months had been treated with stretching exercise and the introduction of arch supports in shoes or with stretching of Achilles tendon.
MedNews - Fri, 22 December 2006
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General Surgery
The introduction of endovascular surgery allowed to make surgical repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) also in otherwise inoperable patients according to traditional open surgery.
MedNews - Fri, 22 December 2006
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Angiology
In the last decade, thromboembolism therapy has seen the shift from the use of unfractionated heparin administered by endovenous route and low-molecular-weight heparin injected under the skin, presenting the advantage of being injected also at home and of not having the need of a coagulation laboratory monitoring.
MedNews - Fri, 22 December 2006
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Neurology
An embryonic stem cell research grant to a Baylor College of Medicine scientist aims to target nervous system cells and, ultimately, better understand human diseases.
Baylor College of Medicine - Tue, 19 December 2006
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General medicine
In a 1988 BMJ editorial, Marks and I reviewed the available knowledge on the mental health effects of torture and their treatment and presented a critical look at rehabilitation programmes for survivors. Eighteen years later, it is time to cast another look at the advances in our understanding of torture and its treatment and how this progress has translated into rehabilitation work with survivors. Such an update is timely: given the political developments of the last two decades, torture has become an ever more serious problem.
British Medical Journal - Tue, 19 December 2006
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Immunology
Some 325 public health experts, leading policy makers and vaccine industry representatives today heard new evidence of the effectiveness of a pneumococcal vaccine used in the United States. Vaccine manufacturers also revealed the status of several new vaccines in the pipeline, including some being developed by manufacturers in middle- and low-income countries.
The Pan American Health Organization - Tue, 19 December 2006
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Immunology
Health and policy leaders meeting today from dozens of countries across the Americas pledged to promote the adoption of a childhood vaccine to prevent a disease that kills two children every hour in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The Pan American Health Organization - Tue, 19 December 2006
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Nephrology
According to a recent meta-analysis, it seems that the use of NSAIDs is able to better relieve the pain of a renal colic compared to traditional opioids, but in the analysis in question only meperidine was used and the combination therapy was not tested.
MedNews - Thu, 14 December 2006
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