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            <title>FDA Approves Botox for Arm Spasticity in Adults; Allergan&apos;s Case Against Govt Still Active</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ Yesterday the FDA approved Botox (onabotulinumtoxin A; Allergan)&nbsp;to treat&nbsp;distal arm spasticity in adults.* The approval was based on results from at least 3 trials in&nbsp;a total of 305&nbsp;people&nbsp;with arm spasticity&nbsp;after stroke. Two of the 3&nbsp;studies have been published in...]]></description>
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            <title>Alzheimer Disease: Brace, Brace, Brace for the Aging Baby Boomer!</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ The Alzheimer's Association has a new report on the large and growing effect of&nbsp;Alzheimer disease and other dementias&nbsp;on Americans. Here's the distillation: AD is the most common cause of dementia, affecting 5.3 million Americans (1.7% of the current US...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:51:17 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>&quot;Son of Rituxan&quot; in Peril</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ Trials of the monoclonal antibody ocrelizumab, a humanized version of the uber-mAb rituximab (Rituxan; Genentech/Biogen Idec), in rheumatoid arthritis and lupus&nbsp;have been halted because of drug-related infections and deaths.&nbsp;News of the&nbsp;grave snag in the mAb's phase 3 development (which...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:28:53 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Kick-Back Friday: #107</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ Raw Deal (1948): Underappreciated noir from director Anthony Mann,* with moody voiceover narration from Claire Trevor,&nbsp;the Queen of Noir. A northern California setting provides the fog. The story: Homme fatale Joe&nbsp;(Dennis O'Keefe)&nbsp;takes the prison rap for a crime boss,...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:07:13 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>DTC Trends: Pregunte a su doctor</title>
            <description><![CDATA[Pharma's&nbsp;financial layout in 2009&nbsp;for DTC ads remained, for all practical purposes, stable, when compared with 2008's numbers. According&nbsp;to the latest Nielson data, by way of MM&amp;M,&nbsp;a total of $4.5 billion was shelled out by drug companies for ads on TV...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:12:53 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>The Taking of Absence Epilepsy One Two Three</title>
            <description> The most common, identifiable form of pediatric epilepsy, absence seizures (formerly known as petit mal seizures) were first described in the early 18th century by (you guessed it) a French guy. Effective and relatively safe pharmacologic treatment for the...</description>
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                <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category">Neurology</category>
            
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            <pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:54:53 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Dimebon Tanks (Along With Medivation Stock) in Phase 3 Alzheimer Trial</title>
            <description> Someday I&apos;m going to learn to capitalize on the overblown expectations and inevitable letdown of AD drug development. Dimebon (latrepirdine), the nonselective antihistamine that Pfizer shelled out millions for, failed to improve cognition or global functioning in a placebo-controlled...</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:27:14 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Bunning Still Blocking Extension of Medicare Reimbursement</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ Senator Bunning (R-KY) remains steadfast in his one-person crusade to block the passage of a bandaid bill that would extend unemployment benefits and&nbsp;highway funds and thwart drastic cuts to Medicare reimbursements.&nbsp;This morning, Bunning again blocked the Senate&nbsp;from taking up...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:45:33 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Conflicting Results of Carotid-Stent Trials Frustrate Practical Application</title>
            <description> Stenting of the carotid artery is a less invasive and potentially safer alternative to traditional endarterectomy (CEA) for the treatment of stenotic plaque. However, the relative efficacy of carotid stenting to prevent stroke has been unclear—a fact that has...</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:08:47 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Kick-Back Friday: #106</title>
            <description> The Honeymoon Killers (1969): It just goes to show you that a shoestring budget doesn&apos;t prevent the creation of really interesting shots. Director Leonard Castle and DP Oliver Wood are largely responsible for the look, sound, and feel of...</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:02:11 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Senator Bunning: Persona Non Grata Among Practicing Physicians</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ Doctors across the&nbsp;United States&nbsp;are throwing hate bombs in the direction of Kentucky, the home of Senator Jim Bunning. The ire&nbsp;is in response to the Senator's repeated objections yesterday and today to&nbsp;delay the upcoming 21% Medicare reimbursement cuts. The cuts&nbsp;are...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:24:25 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>High-Dose Progesterone To Be Studied in Brain-Injured Patients</title>
            <description>On the basis of improved survival in a small pilot study, selected patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) will undergo treatment with natural progesterone in a soon-to-begin, multicenter, phase 3 study throughout the United States. The trial, led by...</description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:07:56 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Kick-Back Friday: #105</title>
            <description> Hobson&apos;s Choice (1954): Inebriate Hobson (Charles Laughton) decides that his 2 youngest daughters will marry—leaving the eldest, queen of the up-sell, to manage his Lancashire bootery. However, the managerially gifted spinster, play by Brenda De Banzie (The Man Who...</description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:54:37 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Apropos-of-Nothing Wednesday: #35</title>
            <description><![CDATA[From The Onion*:&nbsp; Buddy Sneaks Into Chest X-Ray. * America's and my favorite news source....]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:39:40 -0600</pubDate>
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            <title>Funky Tut</title>
            <description><![CDATA[ King Tut was&nbsp;buried in his condo made of stone-a after succumbing to&nbsp;the severest form of malaria, malaria tropica, say preeminent&nbsp;medical archaeologists in this week's JAMA.&nbsp;The boy king&nbsp;also had a form of osteochondrosis—namely, avascular necrosis of the second&nbsp;and third metatarsal...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:03:08 -0600</pubDate>
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