Dogs’ gastrointestinal tracts may be an important reservoir of antibiotic-resistant E coli of public health concern, including strains that have been associated with human extra-intestinal infections. Medscape Medical News
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Dr. Charles P. Vega reviews a study and a useful tool for assessing patient incapacity to make informed medical decisions. Medscape Family Medicine
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(MedPage Today) — Advanced dementia patients commonly go through potentially unnecessary and difficult transitions from the nursing home to other care settings in their last months of life, researchers found.
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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — The Obama administration filed a petition Wednesday with the Supreme Court asking for a speedy ruling on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act.
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(MedPage Today) — Although there is an established cardiovascular risk associated with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, two of them — naproxen and low-dose ibuprofen — carry a lower risk than the others, an analysis of observational studies found.
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(MedPage Today) — The listeriosis outbreak stemming from tainted cantaloupes has sickened at least 72 individuals, killing 13 of them, according to the CDC.
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(MedPage Today) — “Baby Joseph,” the Canadian infant with a rare but terminal neurological disease whose treatment sparked a national controversy, died Tuesday in his Windsor, Ontario, home at 20 months of age.
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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — Starting next summer, a Medicare pilot project will pay primary care practices in select areas an extra $20 a month per patient for making themselves more available to patients and otherwise personalizing care.
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Otonomy, Inc., a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing innovative therapeutics for diseases and disorders of the inner and middle ear, today announced that researchers presented positive new data from a Phase 1b study of the company’s lead product candidate, OTO-104, in patients with Meniere’s disease.
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Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced it plans to move CB-183,315, being studied for the treatment of a severe and sometimes life-threatening diarrhea caused by Clostridium difficile known as C. difficile-associated diarrhea, or CDAD, into late-stage trials.
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