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Obstetrics and Gynecology
Female obesity has been associated with fetal malformations (above all spina bifida), but data are still poor.
MedNews - Fri, 15 February 2008

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General Surgery
In the treatment of lower limbs venous ulcers, compression through elastic dressings has become the usual practice, even if reviews of the greater or lower efficacy of some particular kinds of dressings compared to others, in relation to their cost, too, have been not performed.
MedNews - Fri, 15 February 2008

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Oncology
A stressful life may make it tougher to fight the virus which causes the majority of cervical cancer cases, say scientists.
BBC News - Fri, 15 February 2008

http://news.bbc.co.uk
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Infectious Diseases
Scientists are no further forward in developing a vaccine against HIV after more than 20 years of research, a Nobel Prize-winning biologist has said.
BBC News - Fri, 15 February 2008

http://news.bbc.co.uk
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General medicine
Ministero della Salute e Regioni lavorano ad un testo per migliorare l'applicazione della legge 194, la tutela della salute sessuale e riproduttiva e l'appropriatezza e la qualità nel percorso della diagnosi prenatale.
Ministero della Salute - Fri, 15 February 2008

http://www.ministerosalute.it
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Obstetrics and Gynecology
Indicate le cure e l’assistenza appropriate nelle diverse età gestazionali dalla 22ma alla 25ma settimana di gravidanza.
Ministero della Salute - Fri, 15 February 2008

http://www.ministerosalute.it
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Neurology
A new thesis from Karolinska Institutet shows that the brain's serotonin system differs between men and women.
Karolinska Institutet - Fri, 15 February 2008

http://ki.se/ki/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=130&l=en
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Diabetology
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have in collaboration with researchers from Finland, China, Japan and the US discovered new cellular mechanisms that lead to in insulin resistance in people with diabetes.
Karolinska Institutet - Fri, 15 February 2008

http://ki.se/ki/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=130&l=en
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Psychiatry
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is designed primarily as a clinical tool. Yet high rates of diagnostic "crossover" among the anorexia nervosa subtypes and bulimia nervosa may reflect problems with the validity of the current diagnostic schema, thereby limiting its clinical utility.
American Journal of Psychiatry - Thu, 7 February 2008

http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/
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Psychiatry
White matter abnormalities may interfere with limbic cortical balance and lead to chronic depressive syndromes. The authors used diffusion tensor imaging to test the hypothesis that depressed elders who fail to achieve remission have microstructural white matter abnormalities in cortico-striato-limbic networks implicated in geriatric depression.
American Journal of Psychiatry - Thu, 7 February 2008

http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/