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No single measure has proved to be the gold standard in the diagnosis of dehydration. Here, a few key ways of measuring dehydration in older patients are presented.

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Dengue fever is a common tropical infection. This acute febrile illness can be a deadly infection in cases of severe manifestation, causing dengue hemorrhagic shock. In this brief article, I will ...

Cite this: BCG Vaccination and Leprosy Protection: Review of Current Evidence and Status of BCG in Leprosy Control - Medscape - Feb 01, 2010. Abstract and Introduction Methods ...

Results: The main result of the study is the finding that ID and IDA are common among young adolescent female athletes and that there was no difference between female athletes and nonathletes. In the ...

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Authors and Disclosures. Yang Degang 1,2, Kazuaki Nakamura 1,3, Takeshi Akama 1, Yuko Ishido 1, Yuqian Luo 1, Norihisa Ishii 1 & Koichi Suzuki* 1 1 Leprosy Research Center, National Institute of ...

This dose-ranging study used the acute febrile sore throat model (oral temperature ≥38.0°C) to establish the lowest reliable antipyretic and analgesic dose of diclofenac potassium (6.25, 12.5 ...

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