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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: August 26, 2014
Key clinical point: Clinicians should measure dim light melatonin onset before treating patients with circadian rhythm sleep disorders, and should...
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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: August 20, 2014
Key clinical point: Clinicians can use simple multiples of median overall survival times from clinical trials to estimate survival percentiles for...
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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: August 20, 2014
Key clinical point: Recent use of oral contraceptives may increase breast cancer risk.Major finding: Oral contraceptive use within the prior year ...
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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: August 18, 2014
Key clinical point: Patients with cystic fibrosis who are born and diagnosed in 2010 can expect to live almost 40 years if clinical care remains a...
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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: August 15, 2014
Key clinical point: Pathology of spinal cord grey matter contributes to disability in MS, especially in patients with secondary-progressive MS.Maj...
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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: August 15, 2014
Key clinical point: Older age at disease onset predicted faster disability accumulation in patients with primary progressive multiple sclerosis.Ma...
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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: August 15, 2014
Key clinical point: Palliative care may be a better option than ICU admission for lung cancer patients deemed unfit for anticancer treatment who h...
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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: August 14, 2014
Key clinical point: A novel, noninfectious vaccine for chikungunya virus was highly immunogenic and caused no serious adverse effects in a phase I...
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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: August 14, 2014
Key clinical point: A novel, noninfectious vaccine for chikungunya virus was highly immunogenic and caused no serious adverse effects in a phase I...
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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: August 14, 2014
Key clinical point: Sparse evidence supports the use of sleep- and wakefulness-promoting drugs in shift workers, and both sleep- and wakefulness-p...
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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: August 12, 2014
Key clinical point: Cardiovascular risk factors disproportionately affect blacks and women; and while the gender gap has narrowed, the disparity b...
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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: August 12, 2014
Key clinical point: A study of pairs of twins confirmed the genetic basis of specific epilepsies.Major finding: Twin concordance estimates for mon...
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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: August 11, 2014
Key clinical point: Guidelines and quality indicators on preventing cardiovascular disease in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are sparse a...
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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: August 11, 2014
Key clinical point: One in six patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) was readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of discharge, and th...
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- Author:
- Amy Karon
Publish date: August 6, 2014
Key clinical point: Inherited loss-of-function mutations in PALB2 significantly increase women’s lifetime risk of breast cancer.Major findin...
