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Medicina alternativa
The cold, dry air of winter can give you chapped lips, cracked hands, and now, a study suggests, a better chance of getting the flu. A new analysis of previous data shows that in low-humidity conditions, the influenza virus is more likely survive, possibly giving it a better shot at spreading from person to person and making its way to you.
CNN.com - Sab, 14 Febbraio 2009
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Infettivologia
A 42-year-old HIV patient with leukemia appears to have no detectable HIV in his blood and no symptoms after a stem cell transplant from a donor carrying a gene mutation that confers natural resistance to the virus that causes AIDS, according to a report published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
CNN.com - Sab, 14 Febbraio 2009
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Oftalmologia
In this issue of Archives, Eagle and coauthors present 7 cases of inadvertent evisceration of eyes containing uveal melanoma and conclude: " . . . we believe that the risk of inadvertently eviscerating an eye containing an unsuspected malignant neoplasm probably is greater than the risk of sympathetic uveitis."
Archives of Ophthalmology - Sab, 14 Febbraio 2009
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Neurologia
On February 12, 2009, we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin. He has earned the scientific reputation as being the most influential naturalist-biologist of his generation and perhaps of all time.
Archives of Neurology - Sab, 14 Febbraio 2009
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Neurologia
Until recently, multiple sclerosis (MS) was considered an inflammatory demyelinating disorder of the central nervous system, characterized by axonal sparing. The origin of this misconception is nebulous, and its existence astonishing.
Archives of Neurology - Sab, 14 Febbraio 2009
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Oncologia
A new report shows that private health insurance often fails patients when they need care the most.
American Cancer Society - Sab, 14 Febbraio 2009
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Oncologia
In some trials, results obtainable with CT colonography and with traditional colonoscopy have been compared in the screening of adenomas and intestinal cancers: in this last US, multicentric trial, 2531 subjects aged = 50 have undergone both examinations.
MedNews - Sab, 14 Febbraio 2009
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Farmacologia
In previous trials, the association of an antimuscarinic agent (tolterodine) and an alpha-blocker (tamsulosin) resulted effective in the symptoms of the lower urinary tract caused by benign prostatic hyperplasia.
MedNews - Sab, 14 Febbraio 2009
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Cardiologia
The risk of build up, associated with an increased easiness in bleedings, often prevents the use of heparins in patients with renal failure, even if at smaller doses.
MedNews - Sab, 14 Febbraio 2009
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Cardiologia
Aspirin associated with clopidogrel is the usual prescription in patients undergoing coronary stent, but how many cases of resistance to one or both of the elements of this association exist?
MedNews - Sab, 14 Febbraio 2009
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