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FDA Approves Sculptra(R)Aesthetic, a Facial Injectable for Correction of Nasolabial Folds and Other Facial Wrinkles
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HPV, Other Risk Factors Tied to Oral Cancer: New Web Site Offers Awareness, Early Detection Information
DALLAS, July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- The Fight Oral Cancer Foundation (FOCF) has launched www.fightoralcancer.org to increase public awareness of oral cancer.
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Large, Long-Term Study Shows Avandia Has No Increased Overall Cardiovascular Risk Compared to Other Commonly Used Diabetes Medicines
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VIENNA, Va., June 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CEL-SCI Corporation (NYSE AMEX: CVM ) announced today that its collaborators at the University of Hawaii reported on data at the annual American Society for Microbiology in Philadelphia, PA. This data demonstrates that vaccines utilizing its L.E.A...
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Carbapenems and Other Agents that Provide Broad-Spectrum Activity are Preferred by Surveyed Physicians for the Treatment of Intra-Abdominal Infections
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Progress Against Malaria and Other Infectious Diseases Among Highlights at Annual Vaccine Conference
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Allopathic medicine
... usage of term
2 History of term
3
other terms used by critics of conventional medicine
...dox medicine when necessary to distinguish it from
other medicinal paradigms. Others have used the term al...ptoms. Often contrasted with homeopathy." [2]
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Acute care
... with appropriate discharge instructions.
The term is generally associated with care rendered in an emergency department, ambulatory care clinic, or
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Angor animi
...ts suffering from acute coronary syndrom (cardiac related chest pain) such as angina . It is, however, occasionaly found in patients suffering from
other conditions [1] .
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Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program
...rsonnel were required to get anthrax vaccination [6] (in addition to their
other vaccinations of smallpox and
other diseases and viruses like Japanese encephalitis, Pneumococcal, Tetanus, amo...
Anterior mediastinal mass
...ricardium. Masses in this area is more likely to be malignant than those in
other compartments (1) Most common masses found here include thymomas, germ cell .... Tonofibrils seen under electron microscopy can differentiate thymoma from
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Arterial stiffness
...y wave that travels through the circulation. The speed of travel of this pulse wave (pulse wave velocity) is related to the stiffness of the arteries.
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Imperforate anus
...e is unknown. Imperforate anus occurs in about 1 in 5000 births and its cause is unknown. Children who have imperforate anus may also have
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Glaucoma
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Colorectal polyps
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Zygote
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Abiogenesis
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other gaseous objects that cannot be measured directly.
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Actin
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other species. Secondary transport concerns the diffusio...sport
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Adaptive radiation
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2 Synthesis
3 ATP in the human body
4
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Zygotene
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