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Program That Puts FPs in Touch With Psychiatrists Helps Patients in Maine

Program That Puts FPs in Touch With Psychiatrists Helps Patients in Maine
According to Hobbs, in the early 2000s, 70 percent of the psychotropic drugs in Maine were being prescribed by primary care physicians. "People were out there in the… Continue reading

History Exam Tomorrow ~ How Would You Answer These Essay Questions?

Question by : History exam tomorrow ~ how would you answer these essay questions?
*Discuss in detail the “battle” between traditional cultural values  and the new values of the 1920’s. How did technology play a part in the struggle?… Continue reading

Sleep Quality and Disease Severity in Patients With Chronic Rhinosinusitis.

Sleep quality and disease severity in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis.

Laryngoscope. 2013 Aug 5;
Alt JA, Smith TL, Mace JC, Soler ZM

To evaluate sleep quality in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) using a validated outcome measure and to compare measures of CRS disease severity with sleep dysfunction.Cross-sectional evaluation of a multi-center cohort.According to the 2007 Adult Sinusitis Guidelines, patients with CRS were prospectively enrolled from four academic, tertiary care centers across North America. Each subject completed the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) instrument, in addition to CRS-specific measures of quality-of-life (QOL), endoscopy, computed tomography (CT), and olfaction. Patient demographics, comorbid conditions, and clinical measures of disease severity were compared between patients with “good” (PSQI; ?5) and “poor” (PSQI;?>?5) sleep quality.Patients (n?=?268) reported a mean PSQI score of 9.4 (range: 0-21). Seventy-five percent of patients… Continue reading

Orexin Receptors: Multi-Functional Therapeutic Targets for Sleeping Disorders, Eating Disorders, Drug Addiction, Cancers and Other Physiological Disorders.

Orexin receptors: Multi-functional therapeutic targets for sleeping disorders, eating disorders, drug addiction, cancers and other physiological disorders.

Cell Signal. 2013 Jul 31;
Xu TR, Yang Y, Ward R, Gao L, Liu Y

The orexin peptides (orexin A, orexin B)… Continue reading

Effect of Low-Level Laser Therapy in Patients With Chronic Knee Osteoarthritis: A Single-Blinded Randomized Clinical Study.

Effect of low-level laser therapy in patients with chronic knee osteoarthritis: a single-blinded randomized clinical study.

Lasers Med Sci. 2013 Aug 3;
Alghadir A, Omar MT, Al-Askar AB, Al-Muteri NK

The aim of this study was to investigate the… Continue reading

Addictive Behaviors Related to Opioid Use for Chronic Pain: A Population-Based Study.

Addictive behaviors related to opioid use for chronic pain: A population-based study.

Pain. 2013 Jul 29;
Højsted J, Ekholm O, Kurita GP, Juel K, Sjøgren P

The growing body of research showing increased opioid use in patients with chronic… Continue reading

Unintentional Weakness of Cancers: The MEK/ERK Pathway as a Double-Edged Sword.

Unintentional weakness of cancers: the MEK/ERK pathway as a double-edged sword.

Mol Cancer Res. 2013 Jul 30;
Suda K, Mitsudomi T

Recent advances in molecular target therapy have greatly improved treatment outcomes for cancers driven by oncogenic mutations. However… Continue reading

Examining the Effect of Teleconferences on Oncology Phase 1 Trials.

Examining the effect of teleconferences on oncology phase 1 trials.

J Cancer. 2013; 4(6): 464-7
McKane A, Sima C, Fleck S, Weiss GJ

Objective: Phase 1 clinical trials are the first stage of clinical development of an investigational agent.… Continue reading

Conservative Multimodal Management of a Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor of the Thyroid.

Conservative multimodal management of a primitive neuroectodermal tumor of the thyroid.

Rare Tumors. 2013 Apr 15; 5(2): 75-8
Natale R, Thariat J, Vedrine PO, Bozec A, Peyrottes I, Marcy PY, Haudebourg J, Pedeutour F, Saâda E, Thyss A

Primitive… Continue reading

Microbial Aetiologic Agents Associated With Pneumonia in Immunocompromised Hosts.

Microbial aetiologic agents associated with pneumonia in immunocompromised hosts.

Afr J Infect Dis. 2010; 4(1): 1-6
Udeani TK, Moses J, Uzoechina A, Okwori AE, Okwosa CN

Pulmonary infections are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in the immunosuppressed… Continue reading