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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: May 19, 2015
Key clinical point: One 25-minute noninvasive treatment with a 1,060-nm laser significantly reduced abdominal and flank fat.
Major finding: At 12 ...
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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: May 13, 2015
Key clinical point: Low copeptin levels reliably predicted diabetes insipidus after pituitary surgery.
Major finding: A day after surgery, 81.5% o...
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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: May 13, 2015
Key clinical point: The FDA ban on chlorofluorocarbon-based albuterol inhalers sharply increased out-of-pocket costs and slightly decreased inhale...
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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: May 10, 2015
Key clinical point: Hepatitis C virus infections more than tripled among young people in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia, and wer...
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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: May 10, 2015
Key clinical point: Hepatitis C virus infections more than tripled among young people in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia, and wer...
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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: May 5, 2015
Key clinical point: Clinicians should reserve thrombophilia testing for select subgroups of patients with venous thromboembolism.
Major finding: C...
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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: May 1, 2015
Key clinical point: pH-impedance testing best predicted response to reflux treatment when patients were off proton pump inhibitors, and abnormal a...
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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: May 1, 2015
Key clinical point: Despite improvements in second-generation capsules, colonoscopy remains the gold standard for colorectal adenoma detection.
Ma...
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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: May 1, 2015
Key clinical point: Hospital mortality among cirrhosis patients has fallen markedly, but not when they also had sepsis.
Major finding: Inpatient m...
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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: May 1, 2015
Key clinical point: Oxidized low-density lipoprotein prevented hepatitis C virus from entering hepatocytes and predicted interferon-based treatmen...
News
- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: April 28, 2015
Key clinical point: Reflective confocal microscopy offers noninvasive, real-time imaging to guide laser ablation of basal cell carcinomas.
Major f...
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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: April 28, 2015
Key clinical point: A noninvasive bipolar fractionated microneedle radiofrequency device significantly improved laxity of the lower face and neck....
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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: April 26, 2015
Key clinical point: Performing fractional CO2 laser resurfacing before aminolevulinic acid blue light photodynamic therapy cleared significantly m...
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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: April 25, 2015
Key clinical point: Intralesional 5-ALA-PDT is a potential alternative to Mohs micrographic surgery for treating basal cell carcinomas in high-ris...
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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: April 25, 2015
Key clinical point: A perfluorodecalin-infused skin patch reduced whitening and facilitated clearance of tattoos treated with 755-nm Q-switched la...
