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CMV Infection Identified in Newborns With Hearing Impairment
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The results of a new study indicate that 6% of newborns with confirmed hearing impairment have congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection. In most of these cases, the infection was only picked up after an abnormal hearing screening result. Reuters Health Information
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Chikungunya Virus Has Adapted to New Vector
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The Chikungunya virus has spread to several new countries in the past year because it has found a new species of mosquito to carry it, researchers said on Friday. Reuters Health Information
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What Your Patients are Reading: Calcium Supplements May Increase MI Risk in Older Women
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Recent news stories have examined links between calcium supplements and risk for MI, between the combination of ezetimibe and simvastatin and the statin alone, and between gay men and multidrug-resistant CA-MRSA, as well as studying the safety of meat from cloned meats animals, and the creation in a laboratory of a beating rat heart. Medscape Medical News
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Acute MI May Mimic Clinical Failure in Community-Acquired Pneumonia
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In cases of clinical failure in patients hospitalized for community-acquired pneumonia, acute myocardial infarction (AMI) "should be considered as a possible etiology," investigators report in the July issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases. Reuters Health Information
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