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Adding early manual manipulation of the cervicothoracic spine for shoulder pain or dysfunction disorders, in addition to regular care of information, advice and medications, produced much better recovery at both 12- and 52-weeks post treatments.
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Responding to a rising number of self-pay patients particularly those coming through the emergency department Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta pulled out all the stops to expand and improve its financial counseling program.
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The FDA has approved a new formulation of hydromorphone for the management of pain.
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A new best practice registration manual, jointly written by an eight-member team at Adventist Health, has been very useful for both new registration hires and admitting managers throughout the hospital system, says Ken Mitchell, MM, CHFP, director of patient financial services at Adventist Medical Center in Portland, OR.
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Agents which alter cardiac repolarization have been associated with torsades de pointes.
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Merck announced on September 30th that it is voluntarily withdrawing rofecoxib (Vioxx) from the worldwide market.
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Oseltamivir treatment of children with influenza A virus infection was associated with the selection of resistant mutants in 18%.
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A 38-year-old man returned to the United States from west Africa, where he had spent the last 4 months in Liberia and Sierra Leone where he owned farms. Two days before his August 2004 return, he developed fever, chills, and severe sore throat, and shortly after his arrival, he was hospitalized with, in addition to these complaints, diarrhea and back pain. Lassa fever was considered, and administration of ribavirin was planned, but the patient died before receiving this antiviral medication. The diagnosis of Lassa fever was confirmed by serum antigen detection, immunohistochemical staining of postmortem liver tissue, virus isolation in cell culture, and genome sequencing.
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A retrospective review of 1387 cases of salmonellosis revealed that almost half of cases in children younger than 5 years of age were associated with contact with a reptile.
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