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Oncology
Helicobacter Pylori infection is strongly associated with gastric cancer and this association is now studied in a prospective cohort trial performed in Taiwan, involving 1225 consecutive patients (average age 54) to whom an endoscopic diagnosis of non-ulcerative dyspepsia, gastric ulcer or duodenal ulcer had been given.
MedNews - Tue, 16 October 2007
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Neurology
In the wide 1993 trial Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) patients with type 1 diabetes (average age 27) treated with intensive insulin therapy presented less micro-vascular complications than patients treated with traditional therapy.
MedNews - Tue, 16 October 2007
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Rheumatology
In the acute gout attack, the traditional use of NSAIDs can be replaced by the use of oral cortisone, but clinical trials comparing these two treatments have not been published yet.
MedNews - Tue, 16 October 2007
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Cardiology
In the prevention of cardiovascular diseases, one tries to identify all eliminable risk factors, even if sometimes the discovery of some relation is not turned into a prognostic improvement in practice.
MedNews - Tue, 16 October 2007
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General medicine
Hypothetically, topiramate can improve drinking outcomes among alcohol-dependent individuals by reducing alcohol's reinforcing effects through facilitation of aminobutyric acid function and inhibition of glutaminergic pathways in the corticomesolimbic system.
Journal of the American Medical Association - Tue, 16 October 2007
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Cardiology
There is evidence that job strain increases the risk of a first coronary heart disease (CHD) event. However, little is known about its association with the risk of recurrent CHD events after a first myocardial infarction (MI).
Journal of the American Medical Association - Tue, 16 October 2007
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Obstetrics and Gynecology
Among the interventions that have a significant effect on maternal mortality is access to safe abortion. Gilda Sedgh and colleagues present new findings on global rates and trends of all abortions.
The Lancet - Tue, 16 October 2007
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Obstetrics and Gynecology
New estimates of maternal mortality for 2005, and regional mortality trends since 1990, are described by Ken Hill and colleagues,who show that most deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, with very little improvement in sub-Saharan Africa in the past 15 years.
The Lancet - Tue, 16 October 2007
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Pneumology
In this cohort study of Danish children at high risk for asthma, colonization of the airway at the age of 1 month with Streptococcus pneumoniae, Moraxella catarrhalis, Haemophilus influenzae, or a combination of these organisms, but not with Staphylococcus aureus, was associated with the development of asthma by the age of 5 years.
New England Journal of Medicine - Tue, 16 October 2007
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Genetics e Rare diseases
A cell's ability to give to rise to all the cell types of the embryo and the adult organism is called pluripotency. Pluripotent cells are found within mammalian blastocysts and persist briefly in embryos after implantation. Embryonic stem cells, derived from the inner cell mass of blastocysts, are a renewable source of pluripotent stem cells that are proving valuable in basic science studies and may eventually become a source of cells for safe, effective cell-based therapies.
New England Journal of Medicine - Tue, 16 October 2007
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