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Pediatrics
Premature babies may suffer health consequences all the way through to adulthood, research suggests.
BBC News - Thu, 27 March 2008
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Oncology
MRI scans on women with a high risk of breast cancer falsely spot tumours in most positive cases.
BBC News - Thu, 27 March 2008
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Neurology
Motor neurone disease is a devastating illness which leads to progressive paralysis and eventual death. We will discuss the presentation of motor neurone disease in primary care and update non-specialists on progress with regards to life prolonging interventions, better control of disease symptoms, and an increased understanding of disease mechanisms.
British Medical Journal - Thu, 27 March 2008
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Obstetrics and Gynecology
A study shows that a long cervix in midpregnancy may predict the need for a cesarean delivery during labor at term in primiparous women.
Medscape - Thu, 27 March 2008
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Cardiology
A meta-analysis shows that women have a 20% higher prevalence of stable angina than men, although men have a higher rate of myocardial infarction.
Medscape - Thu, 27 March 2008
http://www.medscape.com
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Nephrology
A study shows that serum uric acid concentration in the high-normal range is associated with impaired renal function in patients with type 1 diabetes and no proteinuria.
Medscape - Thu, 27 March 2008
http://www.medscape.com
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Diabetology
Conflicting clinical trial findings announced through news releases and press conferences have the diabetes care community wondering about the possible dangers of aggressively lowering blood glucose below the levels recommended in current guidelines.
Journal of the American Medical Association - Thu, 27 March 2008
http://jama.ama-assn.org/
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Pediatrics
What is the long-term future of infants who are born after very short gestations (<33 weeks) compared with infants born at term? The investigators assessed the perinatal, childhood, and adolescent mortality of this cohort through 2002 and followed a subset of survivors for educational and reproductive outcomes through 2004.
Journal of the American Medical Association - Thu, 27 March 2008
http://jama.ama-assn.org/
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Cardiology
This review explains how the heart responds to physiologic or pathologic conditions. Exercise, pregnancy, and postnatal growth cause physiologic growth; neurohumoral activation, hypertension, and myocardial injury cause hypertrophic growth, which increases the risk of heart failure and malignant arrhythmia.
New England Journal of Medicine - Thu, 27 March 2008
http://www.nejm.org
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Pneumology
Weaning patients from mechanical ventilation after modest periods of diaphragmatic inactivity can be difficult.
New England Journal of Medicine - Thu, 27 March 2008
http://www.nejm.org