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Is primary care ready to take on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder?
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a common childhood psychiatric disorder. The management of ADHD has recently been highlighted. The... -
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Physician perceptions of primary prevention: qualitative base for the conceptual shaping of a practice intervention tool
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background A practice intervention must have its basis in an understanding of the physician and practice to secure its benefit and relevancy. We used a formative... -
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Evolution of gene fusions: horizontal transfer versus independent events
U.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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The burden of pediatric HIV/AIDS in Constanta, Romania: a cross-sectional study
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background By 1990, 94 percent of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) cases in Romania were in children less than 13 years of age. The majority of the cases... -
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Assessing the knowledge of bronchial asthma among primary health care physicians in Crete: A pre- and post-test following an educational course
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Aim To assess the level of knowledge for bronchial asthma of the primary healthcare physicians serving a rural population on the island of Crete, both before and... -
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Design and performance of a multi-centre randomised controlled trial and economic evaluation of joint tele-consultations [ISRCTN54264250]
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Appropriate information flow is crucial to the care of patients, particularly at the interface between primary and secondary care. Communication problems... -
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Preconceptional factors associated with very low birthweight delivery in East and West Berlin: a case control study
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Very low birthweight, i.e. a birthweight < 1500 g, is among the strongest determinants of infant mortality and childhood morbidity. To develop primary... -
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Pooling data for Number Needed to Treat: no problems for apples
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Objective To consider the problem of the calculation of number needed to treat (NNT) derived from risk difference, odds ratio, and raw pooled events shown to give... -
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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma and protective effects of food intake: from hypothesis to evidence?
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Evidence for a role of diet in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has been accumulating rapidly over the past decade. Associations have been... -
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The functional genomic response of developing embryonic submandibular glands to NF-kappaB inhibition
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background The proper balance between epithelial cell proliferation, quiescence, and apoptosis during development is mediated by the specific temporal and spatial... -
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Is there a clinically significant gender bias in post-myocardial infarction pharmacological management in the older (>60) population of a primary care practice?
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Differences in the management of coronary artery disease between men and women have been reported in the literature. There are few studies of potential... -
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Prominent medical journals often provide insufficient information to assess the validity of studies with negative results
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Physicians reading the medical literature attempt to determine whether research studies are valid. However, articles with negative results may not provide... -
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The use of CAM by women suffering from nausea and vomiting during pregnancy
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Nausea and vomiting during pregnancy (NVP) affects two-thirds of pregnant women to varying degrees and over the years many modalities have been used to try... -
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House dust mite barrier bedding for childhood asthma: randomised placebo controlled trial in primary care [ISRCTN63308372]
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background The house dust mite is the most important environmental allergen implicated in the aetiology of childhood asthma in the UK. Dust mite barrier bedding is... -
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Adverse effects of the antimalaria drug, mefloquine: due to primary liver damage with secondary thyroid involvement?
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Mefloquine is a clinically important antimalaria drug, which is often not well tolerated. We critically reviewed 516 published case reports of mefloquine... -
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Treating patients with low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol: choices, issues and opportunities
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Three clinical trials have recently focused on the benefits of lipid-regulating therapy in populations with normocholesterolaemia and low high-density lipoprotein... -
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Optimizing antibiotics in residents of nursing homes: protocol of a randomized trial
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Antibiotics are frequently prescribed for older adults who reside in long-term care facilities. A substantial proportion of antibiotic use in this setting... -
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The estimated economic burden of genital herpes in the United States. An analysis using two costing approaches
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Only limited data exist on the costs of genital herpes (GH) in the USA. We estimated the economic burden of GH in the USA using two different costing... -
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A multinational randomized, controlled, clinical trial of etoricoxib in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis [ISRCTN25142273]
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Etoricoxib is a highly selective COX-2 inhibitor which was evaluated for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Methods Double-blind, randomized,... -
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Alterations induced by chronic stress in lymphocyte subsets of blood and primary and secondary immune organs of mice
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background The immune system is particularly sensitive to stress. Although acute stress generally has positive effects, chronic stress typically provokes...