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"Providing an earlier exposure to clinical experience could strengthen and integrate medical education curriculum, a new study finds, a benefit that would also complement the problem-based learning approach that is becoming more popular in medical education."
"The reason for the increased risk of heart attack and stroke with the withdrawn arthritis drug rofecoxib (Vioxx) is a mystery neither the drug's maker Merck and Co. Inc. nor the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been able to explain."
Mean gestational duration of the delivered babies was 38.9 ± 2.2 weeks, and mean birth weight was 3405 ± 677 g (range, 1,200 – 5,500 g). Two children were born prematurely at 31 and 35 weeks, with birth weights of 1,200 and 2,300 g, respectively. The baby born at 31 weeks had been exposed to ciprofloxacin, maternal smoking, and multiple x-rays in utero. The other preterm baby had been exposed to gentamicin and nitrofuratoin.
Of the spontaneous abortions, two women had been treated with ciprofloxacin, one woman was treated with ofloxacin, one woman was treated with gentamicin+sulbactam/ampicillin+methenamine, and one woman was treated with ofoxacin+methenamine.
Of the unhealthy babies, a renal anomaly occurred in a baby exposed to ciprofloxacin+gentamicin+methenamine, an atrial septal defect occurred in a baby exposed to methenamine, and congenital hypothyroidism occurred in a baby exposed to ciprofloxacin+nitrofurantoin.
"The ORLIstat and CArdiovascular Risk Profile in Patients With Metabolic Syndrome and Type 2 DIAbetes (ORLICARDIA) Study"
"Treating metabolic and cardiovascular risk factors associated with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) could reduce the incidence of serious medical consequences, according to a position statement from the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE)."
"On the basis of the ALLHAT results, the NHLBI published an update of the national blood pressure guidelines, the Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC 7).[4]
"At present approximately 50 million Americans live with blood pressure (BP) levels elevated enough to be considered 'hypertensive.' According to most of the current national guidelines, this means sitting systolic/diastolic blood pressure (SBP/DBP) values > 140/90 mm Hg for nondiabetic individuals and 130/80 mm Hg for those with diabetes.[1-3] Although the proportion of patients who achieve BP control has increased in the past quarter century, control is still low. For example, in the United States it is still only 34%,[4] and control rates are still lower in many other industrialized countries."
Was there a difference in the criteria for diagnosing Hypertension in Diabetics even earlier?
"Two U.S. scientists won the 2004 Nobel prize for medicine on Monday for showing how the sense of smell enables people to recall, for instance, the scent of spring lilac in the winter or the stench of rotten food eaten long ago."
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