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Physicians are major source for frequent opioid misusers
Major Finding: Opioid pain relievers were prescribed by a physician for 18% of people who used them only 1-29 days of the year, but that...
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VIDEO: Traumatic injury ups stroke risk in people under 50
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VIDEO: Drug cocktail beats single agent in subarachnoid hemorrhage vasospasm treatment
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Vasodilator cocktail beats single-agent infusion for subarachnoid hemorrhage vasospasm
Major finding: Patients who received nicardipine, verapamil, and nitroglycerin had significantly greater improvement in the ratio of arterial...
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Regionalized trauma care boosts TBI survival
Major finding: Hospital mortality was 6.2% pre-NOTS vs. 4.9% post-NOTS for all TBIs (P = .005) and 19% vs. 14% for severe TBIs (P less than .001)....
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Memory fares better with laser ablation for epilepsy than with surgery
Major finding: After undergoing stereotactic laser ablation, 1 in 7 patients had significant drop in one of two memory tasks, compared with 9 of...
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Make the most of nonopioids: Managing acute pain in children
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Gene panel identifies residual neuroblastoma metastases
Major finding: In a multivariate analysis, patients negative for minimal residual disease had about a fourfold increased rate of progression-free...
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Anatomy’s role is elusive in carotid stenting risk
Major finding: The risk of perioperative stroke or TIA was significantly increased only in patients with a higher degree of internal carotid...
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Earlier epilepsy surgery may have reproductive benefits for women
Major finding: Prior to surgery, the women had an average of 0.93 pregnancies each, and an average of 0.73 births; after surgery, a total of 17...