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New book further supports controversial theory
http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/12175.html - Despite popular theories to the contrary, early humans evolved not as aggressive hunters, but as prey of many predators.
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$3 million project will study one-sided hearing and cochlear implants
http://mednews.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/12146.html - Jill B. Firszt, Ph.D., a cochlear-implant specialist at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, was working on her doctoral dissertation when she met with a 47-year-old patient who been deaf in one ear since childhood
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NIH Consensus Statement on Management of Hepatitis...[NIH Consens State Sci Statements. 2002 Jun 10-12] - PubMed Result
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14768714?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DiscoveryPanel.Pubmed_Discovery_RA&linkpos=1&log$=relatedarticles&logdbfrom=pubmed - To provide health care providers, patients, and the general public with a responsible assessment of currently available data regarding the management and treatment of hepatitis C. PARTICIPANTS:
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UpToDate: Secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease: Risk factor reduction
http://www.uptodate.com/home/content/topic.do?topicKey=chd/36053 - Patients with established coronary heart disease (CHD) have a high risk of subsequent cardiovascular events, including myocardial infarction (MI), stroke, and death from cardiovascular disease (CVD)
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Pioglitazone prevents progression of coronary atherosclerosis in patients with CAD, diabetes
http://www.verusmed.com/articles/view/53411/?conference_id=245 - Treatment with pioglitazone appears to result in a significantly lower rate of progression of coronary atherosclerosis relative to treatment with glimepiride in patients with coronary artery disease and type 2 diabetes, results of a new study show.
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NEJM -- Effects of Intensive Glucose Lowering in Type 2 Diabetes
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/358/24/2545?rss=1&ssource=mostCited - Epidemiologic studies have shown a relationship between glycated hemoglobin levels and cardiovascular events in patients with type 2 diabetes.
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NEJM -- Donating Hearts after Cardiac Death -- Reversing the Irreversible
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/359/7/672 - In this issue of the Journal, Boucek et al. (pages 709–714) report on three cases of heart transplantation from infants who were pronounced dead on the basis of cardiac criteria.

