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Detecting and isolating Clostridium difficile carriers can reduce the incidence of health care-associated C. difficile infection

Detecting, Isolating C. difficile Carriers Beneficial

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Strategy linked to decrease in the incidence of health care-associated C. difficile infection
The prevalence of migraine headache is elevated in patients with cardiac syndrome X compared to patients with coronary artery disease or healthy controls

Prevalence of Migraine Up in Patients With Cardiac Syndrome X

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Increased prevalence in CSX compared with coronary artery disease or healthy controls
Sixteen percent of living kidney donors are uninsured at the time of donation

Sixteen Percent of Live Kidney Donors Uninsured

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Live kidney donors with health risk factors more likely to be uninsured than those with no factors
Direct primary care

Direct Primary Care Is Emerging Business Model

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Doctors are bypassing insurance companies in an offshoot of concierge medicine
The addition of tiotropium to long-acting β2-agonists (LABA) and/or inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) does not reduce chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbations compared to LABA/ICS alone

Triple Therapy No Benefit for COPD Exacerbations

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Findings based long-acting β2-agonists, inhaled corticosteroids + tiotropium
The new term

AAP: ALTE Now Termed ‘Brief Resolved Unexplained Events’

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'BRUE' replaces the previous term, 'apparent life-threatening events'
Femtosecond laser capsulotomy efficacy is decreased in mature cataracts

Femtosecond Laser Capsulotomy Limited in Mature Cataracts

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Higher occurrence rates of tags and incomplete capsulotomies in mature cataracts
Electronic health records may be impairing the physician-patient relationship

A Doctor’s View: EHRs Impair Physician-Patient Relationship

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Physician discusses impact of EHR on the physician-patient relationship
A series of hand signals has been developed for use during computed tomography or angiographic procedures

Hand Signals Developed for Communication During CT

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Series of hand signals developed for communication between radiologists, radiographers
The incidence of transfusion-transmitted malaria can be reduced with use of a whole blood pathogen-reduction system

Pathogen Reduction System Prevents Malaria Via Transfusion

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Plasmodium inactivation in whole blood reduces incidence of transfusion-transmitted malaria