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Exposure to Certain Fragrances During Sleep Dramatically Boosts Cognitive Function

AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

Of all the senses we love to indulge, scent is often neglected – but the right smells could be just what your brain needs to keep it whirring in old age.

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Effects of Cuff Size on the Accuracy of Blood Pressure Readings

JAMA Internal Medicine

This randomized crossover trial aims to determine the effect of using a regular blood pressure cuff vs an appropriately sized blood pressure cuff on automated blood pressure readings.

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Experts raise alarm over absence of formal screening programme for lung cancer in India

AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

Despite having a considerable burden of lung cancer, India does not have a formal screening programme for lung cancer, experts have raised alarm. Therefore, it is high time to implement the same as early detection of lung cancer is crucial.

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Prospective Associations of Aerobic and Muscle-Strengthening Activity With Mortality

JAMA Internal Medicine

This cohort study examines the prospective associations of different combinations of moderate aerobic physical activity, vigorous aerobic physical activity, and muscle-strengthening activity with all-cause, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality.

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European Clinical Supply Planning: Balancing Cost, Flexibility and Time

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Zuranolone cleared for post-partum depression, but not MDD

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Zuranolone cleared for post-partum depression, but not MDD Phil.

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Narrow Complex Tachycardia

JAMA Internal Medicine

This case report presents the electrocardiogram findings of a patient in their 50s with sudden onset, severe palpitations lasting for 2 hours.

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There Is No 1-Size-Fits-All to Blood Pressure Measurement—Cuff Size Matters

JAMA Internal Medicine

In this issue of JAMA Internal Medicine, Ishigami and colleagues reported a randomized crossover trial quantifying the effect of miscuffing on blood pressure (BP) measurement when using automated devices. The authors found that regular BP cuff size resulted in starkly inaccurate systolic and diastolic BP readings compared with an appropriately sized cuff, irrespective of arm size.

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The Penicillin Allergy Decision Rule—Something New for Penicillin Allergy

JAMA Internal Medicine

For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle boil; Roentgen fogged some photographic plates. And these people knew enough to translate ordinary happenings into something new.