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    FederalMechanical ventilation in rural ICUsU.S. Department of Health & Human Services — Background: In recent years, rural hospitals have expanded their scope of specialized services, which has led to the development and staffing of rural intensive care...
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    FederalRegular use of aspirin and pancreatic cancer riskU.S. Department of Health & Human Services — Background Regular use of aspirin and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) has been consistently associated with reduced risk of colorectal cancer and...
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    FederalWeight loss maintenance in women two to eleven years after participating in a commercial program: a surveyU.S. Department of Health & Human Services — Background After 5 years, most reports show that less than 10% of people maintain a 5% loss from initial body weight. Weight maintenance after 10 years is rarely...
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    FederalRed blood cell transfusion does not increase oxygen consumption in critically ill septic patientsU.S. Department of Health & Human Services — Background Red blood cell (RBC) transfusion is commonly used to increase oxygen transport in patients with sepsis. However it does not consistently increase oxygen...
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    FederalThe association between secondhand smoke and the risk of developing acute coronary syndromes, among non-smokers, under the presence of several cardiovascular risk factors: The CARDIO2000 case-control studyU.S. Department of Health & Human Services — Background The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between secondhand smoke and the risk of developing a first event of acute coronary syndromes...
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    FederalProphylactic cranial irradiation in small cell lung cancer: a systematic review of the literature with meta-analysisU.S. Department of Health & Human Services — Purpose A systematic review of the literature was carried out to determine the role of prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI) in small cell lung cancer (SCLC) ....
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    FederalA necdin/MAGE-like gene in the chromosome 15 autism susceptibility region: expression, imprinting, and mapping of the human and mouse orthologuesU.S. Department of Health & Human Services — Background Proximal chromosome 15q is implicated in neurodevelopmental disorders including Prader-Willi and Angelman syndromes, autistic disorder and developmental...
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    FederalEvolution of gene fusions: horizontal transfer versus independent eventsU.S. Department of Health & Human Services — Background Gene fusions can be used as tools for functional prediction and also as evolutionary markers. Fused genes often show a scattered phyletic distribution,...
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    FederalAtrial fibrillation in a primary care practice: prevalence and managementU.S. Department of Health & Human Services — Background Atrial fibrillation is a common serious cardiac arrhythmia. Knowing the prevalence of atrial fibrillation and documentation of medical management are...
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    FederalA surrogate-based approach for post-genomic partner identificationU.S. Department of Health & Human Services — Background Modern drug discovery is concerned with identification and validation of novel protein targets from among the 30,000 genes or more postulated to be present...
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    FederalVasopressin-dependent flank marking in golden hamsters is suppressed by drugs used in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorderU.S. Department of Health & Human Services — Background Alterations in arginine vasopressin regulation and secretion have been proposed as one possible biochemical abnormality in patients with obsessive-...
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    FederalInfluence of twenty-five per cent human serum albumin on total and ionized calcium concentrationsU.S. Department of Health & Human Services — Background: A inverse correlation has been found between changes in ionized calcium concentrations and the addition of albumin in vitro, which may explain adverse...
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    FederalPrescribing patterns in premenstrual syndromeU.S. Department of Health & Human Services — Background Over 300 therapies have been proposed for premenstrual syndrome. To date there has been only one survey conducted in the UK of PMS treatments prescribed by...
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    FederalThe attributable mortality and length of intensive care unit stay of clinically important gastrointestinal bleeding in critically ill patientsU.S. Department of Health & Human Services — Objective To estimate the mortality and length of stay in the intensive care unit (ICU) attributable to clinically important gastrointestinal bleeding in mechanically...
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    FederalAlarms in the intensive care unit: how can the number of false alarms be reduced?U.S. Department of Health & Human Services — Many alarms, as they now exist in most monitoring systems, are not usually perceived as helpful by the medical staff because of the high incidence of false alarms....
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    FederalB lymphocyte involvement in ankylosing spondylitis: the heavy chain variable segment gene repertoire of B lymphocytes from germinal center-like foci in the synovial membrane indicates antigen selectionU.S. Department of Health & Human Services — The synovial membrane (SM) of affected joints in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is infiltrated by germinal center-like aggregates (foci) of lymphocytes similar to...
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    FederalSeparate urinary bladder and prostate neurons in the central nervous system of the rat: simultaneous labeling with two immunohistochemically distinguishable pseudorabies virusesU.S. Department of Health & Human Services — Background This work examines the central nervous system distribution of virus-labeled neurons from the rat urinary bladder and the prostate simultaneously within the...
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    FederalDo we need clinical trials to test the ability of transdermal HRT to prevent coronary heart disease?U.S. Department of Health & Human Services — Postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy (HRT) with oral oestrogen was predicted to reduce coronary heart disease (CHD) risk by 50%. Randomized controlled trials...
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    FederalNormalization and analysis of DNA microarray data by self-consistency and local regressionU.S. Department of Health & Human Services — A robust semi-parametric normalization technique has been developed, based on the assumption that the large majority of genes will not have their relative expression...
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    FederalPractice and professional development plans (PPDPs): results of a feasibility studyU.S. Department of Health & Human Services — Background Dissatisfaction with uniprofessional education structures as a means of improving the quality of healthcare has led to proposals to develop ways of...
