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For patients undergoing rhinoplasty with a modified butterfly graft

Modified Butterfly Graft Still Effective Tool in Rhinoplasty

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Significant decrease in Nasal Obstruction Symptoms Evaluation score after surgery
Patients with rheumatoid arthritis rarely use triple therapy (methotrexate

Triple Therapy Rarely Used for Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients

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Factors tied to intensification to triple tx include age, region, outpatient visits, glucocorticoid use
Fungal keratitis patients pretreated with antifungal medication appear to have worse outcomes

No Response to First Antifungals Tied to Worse Keratitis Outcomes

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Findings in fungal keratitis patients presenting for tertiary care after antifungal pretreatment
Just over one-third of chronic cold urticaria patients benefit from treatment with doxycycline

Doxycycline Helps One-Third of Chronic Cold Urticaria Patients

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Critical temperature thresholds do not predict which patients benefit from treatment
Successful completion of the most extensive soft-tissue clinical face transplant performed to date demonstrates the progression of facial vascularized composite allotransplantation

Team Outlines Successful Total Face Transplant Approach

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Operation involved 41-year-old man with full face and total scalp burn
Impaired cardiac autonomic function is associated with coronary flow reserve in patients with type 2 diabetes

Autonomic Function Tied to Coronary Flow Reserve in T2DM

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Impaired function of all cardiac autonomic measures linked to reduced coronary flow reserve in T2DM
Emetine may represent a therapeutic option for human cytomegalovirus infection

Emetine Shows Promise for Human Cytomegalovirus Infection

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Inhibition with emetine occurs after virus entry but before DNA replication
In addition to the health impacts of childhood obesity

Health Care Costs ~60 Percent Higher for Obese Preschoolers

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Costs 1.62 times those of children with healthy weight
A new study indicates that 8 percent of patients -- or one in 12 -- already diagnosed with one form of cancer will develop a second type of unrelated cancer. The findings were published online  July 5 in Cancer.

Second, Unrelated Malignancies Strike 1 in 12 Cancer Patients

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Second cancer was fatal in 55 percent of the cases studied
Objective Structured Assessment of Technical Skills checklists are reliable for assessing technical skills among orthopedic residents performing open surgery on the shoulder

OSATS Can Be Used to Assess Residents’ Shoulder Surgery Skills

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Superior inter-rater reliability for checklist scores versus global rating scale, pass/fail measurements