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Lipids, Apolipoproteins, and Vascular Disease: What to Measure?

Either total and HDL cholesterol, or apolipoproteins, fasting or not, are equally accurate.

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3% Hypertonic Saline for BronchiolitisFree

Infants treated with hypertonic saline had outcomes similar to those treated with normal saline.

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Therapeutic Hypothermia Reduces Brain Injury in Asphyxiated Newborns

MRI scans showed reduced brain tissue injury in infants who received therapeutic hypothermia.

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Why Children Crave Super Sweet Cereals: The Ugly Side of Advertising

The least healthy cereals are the most heavily advertised to children.

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Managing Sepsis and Septic ShockFree

In a large observational study of ICU patients, only early antibiotics and — for those with multiorgan failure — drotrecogin alfa (activated) were significantly associated with survival.

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HIV Controllers and Long-Term Nonprogressors

HIV controllers and long-term nonprogressors represent overlapping but distinct groups.

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Bad Bugs and Nursing Homes

Cultures of samples obtained from nursing-home residents and from environmental surfaces yielded MRSA and multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria.

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Epidemiology of Severe Skin and Skin-Structure Infections

Among patients hospitalized with such infections at a St. Louis teaching hospital in 2006 and 2007, most cases were healthcare associated.

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Epidemiology of Eosinophilic Esophagitis

EoE diagnoses rose in parallel with endoscopy use during a 30-year period.

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Eosinophilic Esophagitis: An Update

A review article provides new insights into EoE biology and treatment.

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A Marker for Autoimmune Pancreatitis?

A potential serologic marker did not completely differentiate AIP and pancreatic cancer.

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