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Usual Care for Low Back Pain Doesn't Align with Guideline Recommendations
General practitioners rarely follow guidelines when managing new episodes of low back pain, reports the Archives of Internal Medicine.(The analysis was conducted in Australia, but the guidelines assessed match those in the U.S.) Researchers examined data on...
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FDA Approves Expanded Use of Crestor
Rosuvastatin (Crestor) has been approved for use as primary prevention in patients without elevated LDL cholesterol but with a combination of other risk factors that put them at increased risk for heart disease, the FDA announced on Monday.FDA Approves...
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Outpatients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease at Increased Risk for VTE
Nonhospitalized patients with inflammatory bowel disease have a nearly 16-fold increased risk for venous thromboembolism during acute flare-ups, according to a Lancet study released online.Using a U.K. general practice database, researchers identified some...
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Is She or Isn't She?
An HIV-infected pregnant woman says she's taking her antiretrovirals but the blood test results say otherwise.How would you manage? A woman in her 30s entered the clinic, 16 weeks pregnant, to reestablish care for her HIV infection and to start...
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Initial Antiretroviral Therapy Switching Still Common
Save time and stay informed.Our physician-editors offer you clinical perspectives on key research and news. In an observational cohort study, treatment changes within the first year of therapy were common but did not reduce rates of virologic suppression....
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Transmitted HIV Drug Resistance The Role of an Ultra-Sensitive Assay
Save time and stay informed.Our physician-editors offer you clinical perspectives on key research and news. In this prospective study, 20% of treatment-naive patients had minority drug-resistance mutations detected on an ultra-sensitive assay, but the...
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ddI and Portal Hypertension
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Adherence to ID Specialists' Recommendations?
Save time and stay informed.Our physician-editors offer you clinical perspectives on key research and news. Community-acquired infection, advice on antibiotic nonuse or discontinuation, and recommendations for performing monitoring tests were associated...
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Drug-Resistant TB Among Gold Miners in South Africa
Among gold miners in South Africa (many of them HIV infected), TB drug resistance spread despite treatment adherence.Poor adherence to treatment protocols contributes to TB drug resistance. Prompted by a TB outbreak at a gold mine in South Africa in 2003,...
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H1N1 Update: Flu Activity Levels Off, but CDC Official Warns Against 'Complacency'
'H1N1 flu activity seems to have leveled off,' according to the CDC, but vaccination 'remains a good idea.' In an online briefing, Dr.Anne Schuchat, the agency's director for immunization, added that most current flu activity is from the 2009 H1N1 virus and...
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