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- (MedPage Today) -- The path to becoming a patient-centered medical home is long, rough, and varies for each practice, but getting there is essential to providing high-quality, affordable healthcare, researchers concluded. - (MedPage Today) -- Men with prostate cancer gained no obvious benefits from treatment with intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) as compared with an older, less expensive technique, an analysis of a government database suggests. - ORLANDO (MedPage Today) -- A number of patient, surgical, and postoperative factors were associated with 30-day hospital readmission following major gastrointestinal resection, and some may be preventable, researchers reported here. - PHILADELPHIA (MedPage Today) -- Early parenteral nutrition in critically ill adults who could not tolerate enteral feeding did not lead to better survival outcomes or a shorter stay in the intensive care unit, researchers found. - (MedPage Today) -- Sharing a bed with an adult -- even one who doesn't smoke or drink -- is associated with a five-fold increased risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) among younger infants, a new analysis found. - (MedPage Today) -- A Mediterranean diet heavy on extra-virgin olive oil or nuts does more to keep the aging brain agile than simply switching to a low-fat diet, researchers found. - (MedPage Today) -- There was no fanfare on May 20, 1983 when Science published what is undoubtedly among the most important medical papers of the 20th century. - (MedPage Today) -- The anabolic steroid oxandrolone was no better than placebo at healing chronic, full-thickness target pressure ulcers, a randomized, blinded, placebo-controlled trial found. - (MedPage Today) -- Injection of a sugar solution into the joint significantly improved quality of life among patients with osteoarthritis in the knee, a randomized study showed.
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