Publications by authors named "Craig D Nielsen"
Recommendations for pneumococcal vaccination in adults have been updated in the hopes not only of preventing more cases of invasive pneumococcal disease but also of making the recommendations simpler and easier to follow.
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- A study conducted in July 2011 aimed to evaluate the effects of new duty hour restrictions on residency program personnel across various specialties and sites.
- The research utilized a survey targeting internal medicine and general surgery residency programs, incorporating both quantitative and qualitative questions to capture a comprehensive view of the restrictions' impact.
- Results indicated that perceptions of the duty hour limits varied by specialty and training background, with internal medicine residents generally viewing the restrictions more favorably than their surgery counterparts, while osteopathic medical school graduates had more negative opinions than those from allopathic or international schools.
Friedreich ataxia (FRDA) is typically characterized by slowly progressive ataxia, depressed tendon reflexes, dysarthria, pyramidal signs, and loss of position and vibration sense with onset before 25 years. While several atypical forms of FRDA are recognized, profound vision deficit is rare. We describe here a 41-year-old man with profound vision deficit and episodic complete blindness associated with marked optic atrophy, spastic paraparesis, and sensory neuropathy without ataxia whose diagnostic evaluation revealed compound heterozygosity for two frataxin mutations, a 994 GAA repeat intronic expansion and c.
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