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Thirty Years of Blackouts: A Case Report of Swallow Syncope.

...  Patient experienced near syncope. A rate-responsive, dual-chamber Boston Scientific pacemaker with DDDR programming was implanted. Patient has remained asymptomatic at follow-up. HubMed – eating Ghrelin and eating behavior: evidence and insights from genetically-modified mouse models. Front Neurosci. 2013; 7:… Continue reading

Challenges to Healthy Eating for People With Diabetes in a Low-Income, Minority Neighborhood.

...  controllers of food intake. If a choice of food is available, what we eat is based on pleasure and past experience. This article reviews the hormones that mediate and influence these processes. HubMed – eating Prospective Study of Breakfast… Continue reading

Pharmacoresistance in Epilepsy. Proceedings of the 2nd Halifax International Epilepsy Conference & Retreat. September 21–22, 2012. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

...  on weight, body composition, appetite, resting energy expenditure, substrate oxidation, and metabolic parameters in adults with schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders.Twenty adults with schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders were randomized 1:1 to ziprasidone 20–160 mg/day or olanzapine 5–20 mg/day… Continue reading

Drug Company Influence Starts at University.

...  To answer these questions, we reviewed the available literature, using the standard Prescrire methodology. In clinical trials, warfarin, enoxaparin, dabigatran, rivaroxaban and apixaban were associated with a similar frequency of severe bleeding. Numerous reports of severe bleeding associated with… Continue reading

Effects of Community-Based Cardiac Rehabilitation on Body Composition and Physical Function in Individuals With Stable Coronary Artery Disease: 1.6-Year Followup.

...  Design. Thirty-four individuals (69.7 ± 8.2 years; 79% men) participated in this longitudinal observational study. Baseline and follow-up assessments included incremental shuttle walk, short physical performance battery, handgrip strength, chair stands, body composition, last year physical activity, and CR… Continue reading

Culturally Competent Interventions to Address Obesity Among African American and Latino Children and Youth.

...  followed by a 6-month follow-up period in individuals with mental disorders living in sheltered housing in the Flanders region (Belgium).The study had a cluster preference randomized controlled design. Twenty-five sheltered housing organizations agreed to participate (16 in the intervention… Continue reading

Effects of Gender, Media Influences, and Traditional Gender Role Orientation on Disordered Eating and Appearance Concerns Among Latino Adolescents.

...  would not be useful for the actual organic policies to distinguish organic milk under the current regulations, because organic dairy ruminants can be fed organic compound feed and conserved fodder without grazing at all. HubMed – eating [Food consumption… Continue reading

Laryngeal Fibrous Hamartoma Presenting With Airway Obstruction at Birth.

...  device? Answer Intramuscular epinephrine injection is a safe and effective treatment of anaphylaxis in children. Children with systemic allergic reactions should carry epinephrine autoinjectors at all times, and should certainly have one with them at school. In order for… Continue reading

Assessment of Risk Factors of Helicobacter Pylori Infection and Peptic Ulcer Disease.

...  and weight loss.Height, weight, 3-day diet records, and HNSC(©) were obtained at baseline, posttreatment, and 2.5 month follow-up for 52 treatment-naive head and neck cancer (HNC) patients. Relationships among energy intake, weight loss, age, sex, treatment, tumor stage,… Continue reading

Cognitive Assessment and Rehabilitation Pathway for Stroke (CARPS).

...  and spatiotemporal asymmetry. Rehabilitation programs have been effective in increasing gait speed, but spatiotemporal asymmetry has been more resistant to change. The inability to modify gait patterns for improved symmetry may be related, in part, to impairments in lower… Continue reading