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Day: August 18, 2014

Aser Garcia Rada and Laura Reques Sastre: Fever after a trip to the Caribbean? Think of chikungunya

August 18, 2014

In Spain we are beginning to attend to a growing number of suspected cases of chikungunya—a disease most of us have never faced before—among patients coming from the Caribbean region. […]

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Richard Lehman’s journal review—18 August 2014

August 18, 2014

NEJM 14 August 2014 Vol 371 601  The usual wisdom about sodium chloride is that the more you take, the higher your blood pressure and hence your cardiovascular risk. We’ll […]

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The BMJ Today: Computed tomography—to scan or not to scan?

August 18, 2014

As reported in the News section today, a group of experts has called attention to the dramatic rise in the use of computed tomography (CT) scanning. The Committee on Medical […]

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