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Medicina generale
Physicians who treat patients with multiple health problems will fare well under pay-for-performance, which bases physician reimbursement on the quality of care provided, said researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Houston in a report in the current issue of the journal Circulation.
Baylor College of Medicine - Ven, 5 Giugno 2009
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Immunologia
The World Health Organization says a vaccine which can prevent a diarrhoea and vomiting virus should be given to all children as a routine vaccination.
BBC News - Ven, 5 Giugno 2009
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Pediatria
Scientists develop technology they say allows children with communication problems to converse better.
BBC News - Ven, 5 Giugno 2009
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Medicina generale
The use of jargon is a blight on the NHS and could end up harming patient care, doctors and experts say.
BBC News - Ven, 5 Giugno 2009
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Ematologia
When these cells were plated out as single cells, they gave rise to pleomorphic large cells resembling what we recognize as Hodgkin Reed-Sternberg (HRS) cells. The work presented in this issue of Blood provides compelling evidence for the presence of clonotypic B cells in the peripheral blood of patients with classic Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL), building on this seminal observation by Newcom et al in 1988.
Blood - Ven, 5 Giugno 2009
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Pediatria
Health promotion and disease prevention are as integral to childhood as play. They start in utero, when a mother takes prenatal vitamins or refrains from drinking alcohol or smoking; continue after a child is born when a mother breastfeeds; and are addressed daily, when parents make sure a child snacks on fruit instead of junk food or plays outside rather than watches television.
Journal of the American Medical Association - Ven, 5 Giugno 2009
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Pediatria
When pediatrician Aaron Bernstein, MD, sees young patients with Lyme disease at Children's Hospital Boston, in Massachusetts, his advice to parents often goes beyond the obvious of protecting their children against infectious ticks with insect repellant, long pants, and long sleeves on trips to the woods.
Journal of the American Medical Association - Ven, 5 Giugno 2009
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Ematologia
A vaccine for follicular lymphoma has been shown to improve disease-free survival, but there are questions about how it will fit alongside current therapy.
Medscape - Ven, 5 Giugno 2009
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Psichiatria
New research suggests major depressive disorder is associated with impaired glucose tolerance -- a finding that highlights the need for vigilant hyperglycemia screening in this patient population.
Medscape - Ven, 5 Giugno 2009
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Trapiantologia
The FDA has approved an expanded indication for tacrolimus (Prograf), recommending its use with MMF for the prophylaxis of organ rejection in allogenic kidney transplantation.
Medscape - Ven, 5 Giugno 2009
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