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Research Study for Children With Salt Wasting Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (External Link)
The adrenal gland is a small organ of the body. It produces very important chemicals called hormones. One of these hormones, cortisol (the stress hormone) helps the body fight diseases. …
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Dietary Supplements for the Treatment of Angelman Syndrome (External Link)
AS is a neurologic disorder that may cause developmental delay, mental retardation, severe speech impairment, seizures, small head size, and problems with movement and balance in young children. AS is …
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Naltrexone and Adrenergic Agents to Reduce Heroin Use in Heroin Addicts (External Link)
Heroin addiction is a serious health problem with no available medical treatment for preventing relapse. Naltrexone is a medication that is currently used to treat substance addiction. It acts by …
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Vancomycin vs. Vancomycin Plus Gentamycin in Treatment of MRSA Infection (External Link)
Treatment of bacteremic infection (infection associated with positive blood cultures) due to Staphylococcus aureus has become increasingly problematic as a result of the increasing prevalence of strains that are resistant …
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Dexmedetomidine in Pediatric Tonsillectomy (External Link)
Dexmedetomidine, an alpha 2 agonist provides some analgesia without respiratory depression. Children undergoing tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy occasionally have episodes of respiratory obstruction in the recovery room following administration of opioids. …
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Taxotere and Adriamycin/Cytoxan (AC) Validation in Breast Cancer Patients (External Link)
Large clinical trials have confirmed the value of systemic adjuvant therapy in decreasing the risk of recurrence and death in patients with early breast cancer. However, the need to identify …
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Novel Treatment for Diastolic Heart Failure in Women (External Link)
Subjects with diastolic heart failure defined based on clinical symptoms, echocardiography diastology parameters and brain natriuretic peptide level will be randomized in a 1:1 fashion to either placebo or spironolactone …
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Effectiveness of Intensive Lipid Modification Medication in Preventing the Progression of Peripheral Arterial Disease (The ELIMIT Study) (External Link)
PAD occurring in the legs is a serious disease that affects about 8 million people in the United States. A person's risk for PAD increases with age but can also …
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Corticosteroids in Postoperative Critically Ill Neonates With Low Cardiac Output Syndrome With Congenital Heart Disease (External Link)
The study will be prospective. Patients who meet entry criteria will be randomized to receive corticosteroids versus placebo. Randomization will take into account biventricular versus univentricular repairs/palliations and whether the …
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Biologic Correlative Taxotere/AC (External Link)
Breast cancer and systemic chemotherapy: Systemic chemotherapy for operable breast cancer significantly decreases the risk of relapse and death. However, it is not possible to identify those patients at the …
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