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Diabetology
Physicians and dentists have long known that the health of an individual's mouth can have significant effects on the health of the rest of the body: diabetes appears to have a particularly close relationship with conditions within the oral cavity.
Journal of the American Medical Association - Fri, 5 December 2008
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Neurology
Studies show that cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) works as well as, or better than, hypnotic medications to alleviate chronic insomnia, and its benefits also continue after active treatment ends.
Journal of the American Medical Association - Fri, 5 December 2008
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Psychiatry
Diogenes syndrome, otherwise known as senile self neglect syndrome, is used to describe an older adult living in squalor but with no sign of mental or cognitive impairment sufficient to explain the self neglect.
British Medical Journal - Fri, 5 December 2008
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Cardiology
Approximately 50% of patients with heart failure have a left ventricular ejection fraction of at least 45%, but no therapies have been shown to improve the outcome of these patients.
New England Journal of Medicine - Fri, 5 December 2008
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Hepatology
The hepatitis B virus (HBV) causes chronic infection in approximately 400 million people in the world.
New England Journal of Medicine - Fri, 5 December 2008
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Dietetics and Nutrition
Thi study assessed the efficacy and safety of tesofensine - an inhibitor of the presynaptic uptake of noradrenaline, dopamine, and serotonin - in patients with obesity.
The Lancet - Fri, 5 December 2008
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Immunology
Observational data and non-human primate challenge studies suggest that cell-mediated immune responses might provide control of HIV replication. The Step Study directly assessed the efficacy of a cell-mediated immunity vaccine to protect against HIV-1 infection or change in early plasma HIV-1 levels.
The Lancet - Fri, 5 December 2008
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Diagnostics
Magnetic resonance elastography is a recently introduced technique in order to avoid the problem of performing liver biopsies.
MedNews - Fri, 5 December 2008
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Cardiology
From recent investigations, we know that hypertension in childhood is completely underdiagnosed and is associated also with still unresolved doubts: which repercussions is going to have the finding of high pressure values in a teenager on his/her future?
MedNews - Fri, 5 December 2008
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Pediatrics
The frequency of febrile seizures in childhood is estimated to be about in 5% in children younger than 5, with the parents’ inevitable anxiety also as to the child’s survival.
MedNews - Fri, 5 December 2008
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