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Dietetics and Nutrition
To lose weight is already difficult, but to maintain the loss is often a desperate undertaking, judging from the very great number of overweight or obese people regaining the starting weight after months of heavy diets.
MedNews - Fri, 23 February 2007
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Neurology
In young with possible epilepsy, EEG represents the most used diagnostic tool. But since false negative are frequent, techniques to increase the examination sensibility (hyperventilation, light stimulation, artificial sleep, sleep deprivation) are used.
MedNews - Fri, 23 February 2007
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Infectious Diseases
Recently, CDC have recommended the execution of HIV screening when considering an individual health situation, upon patient’s consent. It is not the first time that CDC give these recommendations, given that already in 1992 and 2001 the adoption of HIV test was proposed as a routine test, even if this practice was never implemented in daily use.
MedNews - Fri, 23 February 2007
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Orthopaedics
After a surgery for total hip prosthesis, there is the formation of periprosthetic calcifications, but it is not clear whether they can cause coxalgia.
MedNews - Fri, 23 February 2007
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Obstetrics and Gynecology
Female obesity is associated with maternal and fetal risks, but the importance of weight gain between two pregnancies has not been studied yet.
MedNews - Fri, 23 February 2007
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Infectious Diseases
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the UNAIDS Secretariat welcome the publication today in The Lancet of the detailed findings of two trials undertaken in Kenya and Uganda to determine whether male circumcision has a protective effect against acquiring HIV infection.
World Health Organization - Fri, 23 February 2007
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General medicine
NICE is planning to introduce ‘short’ clinical guidelines to provide the NHS with advice on what works best at any given point in a care pathway. These guidelines will be produced in 9–11 months – half the time it takes to produce a full clinical guideline.
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence - Fri, 23 February 2007
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Diagnostics
More convenient, less invasive, and relatively inexpensive, the fecal occult blood test, experts say, could be an important next step in expanding colorectal cancer screening.
Medscape - Fri, 23 February 2007
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Neurology
Patients with a younger age at PD onset, higher novelty-seeking traits, or a personal or family history of alcohol abuse are more likely to experience pathologic gambling in response to dopaminergic drugs.
Medscape - Fri, 23 February 2007
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General medicine
A systematic review showed that the periodic heath evaluation was a justifiable benefit in clinical practice, improving delivery of some preventive services and reducing patients? healthcare concerns.
Medscape - Fri, 23 February 2007
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