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Cardiology
According to published trials, the use of SSRIs during pregnancy (above all paroxetine) would be associated with an increase in the fetus’s congenital cardiac defects.
MedNews - Tue, 8 January 2008
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Diabetology
Type-2 diabetics often use digital blood taking in order to make a home glycemic monitoring, and some English researchers have wondered whether this habit is capable to modify the course of the disease.
MedNews - Tue, 8 January 2008
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Cardiology
Recently, in a center specialized in following patients with anticoagulation therapy, a cohort of 472 patients was studied, including 153 elderly more than 80, under warfarin therapy. The primary objectives of the trial were fixed in important hemorrhages onset or therapy interruption, established by general practitioners.
MedNews - Tue, 8 January 2008
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Cardiology
The kind of treatment of peripheral obliterating arterial diseases essentially depends on lesions extent, so a precise and detailed diagnosis becomes fundamental in order to decide and undertake a therapy.
MedNews - Tue, 8 January 2008
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Pneumology
Since the beginning of the XX century, pneumonias have been associated with acute cardiac events, above all when, in that period, pneumonias were routinely treated with digitalis. Some researchers from Houston have now reviewed this association using more refined diagnostic tools.
MedNews - Tue, 8 January 2008
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Oncology
In women with hormone-resistant breast cancer (i.e. oestrogen-receptor negative breast cancer), even the older chemotherapy regimens of the 1970s and 1980s were safe and have improved long-term survival.
The Lancet - Tue, 8 January 2008
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Obstetrics and Gynecology
Preterm birth (birth before 37 weeks of gestational age) is the leading cause of perinatal mortality. The frequency of preterm birth is high and the incidence is increasing.
The Lancet - Tue, 8 January 2008
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Cardiology
Expert guidelines advocate defibrillation within 2 minutes after an in-hospital cardiac arrest caused by ventricular arrhythmia. However, empirical data on the prevalence of delayed defibrillation in the United States and its effect on survival are limited.
New England Journal of Medicine - Tue, 8 January 2008
http://www.nejm.org
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Oncology
The study evaluated capecitabine (an oral fluoropyrimidine) and oxaliplatin (a platinum compound) as alternatives to infused fluorouracil and cisplatin, respectively, for untreated advanced esophagogastric cancer.
New England Journal of Medicine - Tue, 8 January 2008
http://www.nejm.org
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Cardiology
The board studied whether functional improvement after cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is associated with reversal of the heart failure (HF) gene program.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology - Tue, 8 January 2008
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