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General medicine
A healthy lifestyle is important in reducing stress in order to manage risk factors associated with adverse cardiovascular outcomes, concludes a review.
The Lancet - Wed, 26 September 2007
http://www.thelancet.com
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Oncology
Fortunately, acute lymphoblastic leukemia in childhood is a neoplasm with a favourable outcome after treatment, but we also know that survived children present a high risk to take a different neoplasm at the age of 15-20, even if this risk is not completely explained yet.
MedNews - Wed, 26 September 2007
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Cardiology
The WHI (Women's Health Initiative) study has shown that cardiovascular risk in women treated with hormone therapy (estrogens alone or estrogens plus progesterone) increases with age.
MedNews - Wed, 26 September 2007
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General medicine
There are still some doubts on the need to use ASA in primary cardiovascular and oncologic prevention in women, so now the risk of death for cardiovascular disease or cancer was evaluated among 79.439 women (average age 46) participating to the Nurses’ Health Study.
MedNews - Wed, 26 September 2007
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Cardiology
The American Academy of Family Physicians and the American College of Physicians, according to published evidences, issued some guidelines on the diagnosis of venous thromboembolism in general practice.
MedNews - Wed, 26 September 2007
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Neurology
In seizure therapy, both partial and generalized ones, new drugs marketed by pharmaceutical industry are often used, without a strict comparison with the old therapies.
MedNews - Wed, 26 September 2007
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General medicine
The target for reducing mortality of children under-5 worldwide, which is incorporated into Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG4), is unlikely to be met.
The Lancet - Wed, 26 September 2007
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Pediatrics
The lack of thorough and reliable clinical data on the way medicines affect children requires strengthened safety monitoring and vigilance of medicinal products. This is the fundamental message of Promoting safety of medicines for children, released today by the World Health Organization (WHO).
World Health Organization - Fri, 21 September 2007
http://www.who.int
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Cardiology
Previous reviews of associations of apolipoprotein E (apoE) genotype and coronary disease have been dominated by smaller studies that are liable to biases. Objective of the study is reassess associations of apoE genotypes with circulating lipid levels and with coronary risk.
Journal of the American Medical Association - Fri, 21 September 2007
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Genetics e Rare diseases
In a future that promises similar information to much of the population, ethicists, scientists and physicians are only beginning to understand and consider the possibilities.
Baylor College of Medicine - Fri, 21 September 2007
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