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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: October 16, 2013
Major finding: The proportion of lawsuits concerning cutaneous laser procedures that have been brought against nonphysician operators rose from 36...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: October 16, 2013
Major finding: In the intention-to-treat analysis, the rate of treatment success was 75% with bracing vs.
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: October 15, 2013
Major finding: The rate of any major congenital malformation was 25.3 per 1,000 among infants exposed to metoclopramide during the first trimester...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: October 15, 2013
Major finding: The proportion of angina-free patients was slightly but significantly greater with CABG than with PCI at 6 months (83.7% vs. 78.1%)...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: October 14, 2013
Major finding: The relative risk of vaccine-associated seizures was significantly greater (RR, 6.5) among children immunized at 16-23 months of ag...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: October 14, 2013
Major finding: The relative risk of vaccine-associated seizures was significantly greater (RR, 6.5) among children immunized at 16-23 months of ag...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: October 14, 2013
Major finding: The PREDICTS score had a sensitivity of 81%, a specificity of 79%, a positive predictive value of 40%, and a negative predictive va...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: October 9, 2013
Major Finding: The mean radiotherapy-related expenditures were 62% lower for patients who received single-fraction radiotherapy ($1,873), compared...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: October 8, 2013
Major finding: Disease-free survival (13.4 vs. 6.7 months) and overall survival (22.8 vs. 20.2 months) were significantly greater with gemcitabine...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: October 7, 2013
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: October 7, 2013
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: October 7, 2013
Major finding: Nine percent of adolescents participating in a survey of media violence reported that they perpetrated forced sexual contact, coerc...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: September 25, 2013
Major Finding: In a review of 957 isolates from C.
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: September 24, 2013
Major finding: The six-item Ottawa SAH Rule had an overall sensitivity of 99.2% and a specificity of 99.6% in identifying subarachnoid hemorrhages...
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- Author:
- Mary Ann Moon
Publish date: September 24, 2013
Major finding: A second bone mineral density test 4 years after an initial test was not useful in refining the prediction of major fractures and d...
