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Neurology
Alzheimer disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by a decline in cognitive function. The two major pathological features of this disease include extracellular beta-amyloid (Abeta) plaques and intraneural neurofibrillary tangles.
Archives of Neurology - Wed, 23 July 2008
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Neurology
Recent therapeutic advances have improved standard treatment for patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma. Unfortunately, even with these improvements, only a fraction of patients derive significant benefit and experience prolonged survival.
Archives of Neurology - Wed, 23 July 2008
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Ophthalmology
Amblyopia treatment is accepted by consensus as a valuable medical intervention. If amblyopia is not treated in children and adolescents, it results in a lifetime of unilateral or bilateral visual loss. Recent clinical trials have clarified many aspects of proper treatment.
Archives of Ophthalmology - Wed, 23 July 2008
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Ophthalmology
In this issue of Archives, Parulekar et al document the resolution of ocular torsion and skew deviation when patients are examined in the reclined position. While some of its methodology may strike the general reader as abstruse and academic, this study is original, clever, and innovative in its clinical application.
Archives of Ophthalmology - Wed, 23 July 2008
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Infectious Diseases
Recent studies have shown that HIV causes a vigorous and prolonged immune response that eventually leads to the exhaustion of key immune system cells that target HIV.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - Wed, 23 July 2008
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Infectious Diseases
Interim results from a clinical study indicate that the anti-tuberculosis (TB) drug isoniazid is safe but ineffective in preventing TB or death in infants who at the time of enrollment had no history of TB exposure or disease and were either HIV-infected or HIV-exposed but uninfected.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - Wed, 23 July 2008
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Cardiology
urrent guidelines do not recommend routine cardiac stress testing in patients with stable coronary heart disease (CHD) unless they report symptoms of angina. Our objective was to compare the prognosis of self-reported angina symptoms, inducible ischemia, or both in patients with stable CHD.
Archives of Internal Medicine - Wed, 23 July 2008
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Obstetrics and Gynecology
We sought to estimate the prevalence of low sexual desire and hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD) in US women, focusing on their menopausal status.
Archives of Internal Medicine - Wed, 23 July 2008
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General medicine
Every day, over 2.5 billion people suffer from a lack of access to improved sanitation and nearly 1.2 billion practise open defecation, the riskiest sanitary practice of all, according to a report issued by the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation.
World Health Organization - Wed, 23 July 2008
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Neurology
A drug once approved as an antihistamine in Russia improved thinking processes and the ability to function in patients with Alzheimer's disease in a study conducted there, said an expert at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.
Baylor College of Medicine - Wed, 23 July 2008
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