Review treatment options for patients with new onset, severe, and recurrent C difficile infection.
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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) introduced a bi-partisan bill this week to give emergency physicians a pay boost and establish a committee to find fixes for overcrowded emergency rooms.
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ORLANDO (MedPage Today) — Newly unsealed court documents suggest that AstraZeneca tried to minimize the risk of diabetes and weight gain associated with its antipsychotic drug quetiapine (Seroquel), in part by “cherry-picking” data for publication.
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Review the challenges of treating a patient with chronic pain and with a history of substance abuse and evaluate interventions that are available or are in development.
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Although some developed countries now accept blood donations from men who have ever had sex with men, most do not; the debate about this practice is ongoing. Medscape Medical News
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Exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease clustered together after an initial exacerbation, which may affect timing of preventative interventions and clinical trial data analysis. Medscape Medical News
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A pre-exposure prophylactic (PrEP) regimen of tenofovir and emtricitabine has the potential to reduce the lifetime risk of HIV transmission substantially in high-risk populations, a new study indicates. Reuters Health Information
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A prospective study shows a lower risk for cancer overall in women with higher intake of calcium and a lower risk for gastrointestinal tract cancers in both men and women with high calcium intakes. Medscape Medical News
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ROCKVILLE, Md. (MedPage Today) — Drugs containing the antiemetic metoclopramide must carry a boxed warning about the risk of tardive dyskinesia, the FDA announced.
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The pharmaceutical company Mylan on Wednesday announced that the World Health Organization has approved its heat-stable, generic version of Abbott Laboratories’ antiretroviral drug Kaletra, the AP/MSNBC reports.
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