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General Surgery
Prophylactic transluminal balloon angioplasty reduces the incidence of vasospasm following ruptured brain aneurysm, a new study suggests.
Medscape - Tue, 13 February 2007
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Oncology
For breast cancer patients who have taken tamoxifen for a few years, switching to an aromatase inhibitor is better than staying on tamoxifen.
Medscape - Tue, 13 February 2007
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Rheumatology
In a retrospective study, the measles, mumps, rubella booster vaccination was safe and effective in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis; disease activity was not affected by the vaccine.
Medscape - Tue, 13 February 2007
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Oncology
Researchers suggest that a daily intake of 2000 IU of vitamin D3 might prevent up to half of all breast cancer and two thirds of colorectal cancer cases in the United States.
Medscape - Tue, 13 February 2007
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Angiology
A new study suggests long-term outcome of stenting intracranial arteries in patients with symptomatic stenosis may improve outcomes at 1 and 2 years over previously published results with anticoagulation and antiplatelet therapy.
Medscape - Tue, 13 February 2007
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Psychiatry
In the STAR*D study, sponsored by NIH, thousands of non-hospitalized patients, affected by resistant depression, were studied, using multiple levels of treatment, up to the reaching of remission.
MedNews - Tue, 13 February 2007
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Andrology
Since DHEA and testosterone blood levels decrease with age, it was thought that an integration of these two substances may help to fight age-related deterioration. This hypothesis has been now verified in a placebo-controlled, double-blind study concerning 87 males and 57 females more than 60.
MedNews - Tue, 13 February 2007
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Diagnostics
X-ray sensibility towards the origin of small intestine bleedings is relatively low, so people are always searching new imaging techniques. The use of video capsules improved the situation, but their use does not allow the execution of biopsies or therapeutical procedures.
MedNews - Tue, 13 February 2007
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Infectious Diseases
Clostridium Difficile infections are unfortunately increasing, also in subjects in whom hospitalization or antibiotic use as risk factors are not present. According to the results of some trials, researchers have thought to a role of proton pump inhibitors (PPI) in favouring this kind of infection.
MedNews - Tue, 13 February 2007
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Oncology
The International Early Lung Cancer Action Program (I-ELCAP) is a prospective trial on the screening for lung cancer through spiral CT. More than 31.000 subjects were enrolled from 1993 to 2005, all of them at cancer risk for smoking or for exposition to environmental factors.
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