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Information provided here is for informational purposes only. It is not intended as and does not substitute for medical advice. If you are a patient, please see your doctor for evaluation of your individual case. Under no circumstances will the authors be liable to you for any direct or indirect damages arising in connection with use of this website. Patient data published on this website does not reflect any real-life patient cases, and if partial information is used, it is modified to protect patient confidentiality in strict compliance with HIPAA. Cases course and description do not follow real cases. If you decide to send an email message to the author, your email address, personal information, as well as the content of your email would be kept private and only accessible to the author.

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This web site is intended for medical professionals but can also be accessed by the general public. The information provided here is made available by the authors for educational purposes only and is not intended to provide medical advice. By accessing the web site, the visitors acknowledge that there is no physician-patient relationship between them and the authors. The web site should not be used as a substitute for competent medical advice from a licensed physician.

It is designed to support, not replace, the relationship that exists between a patient/site visitor and his/her physician. If recommendations or claims about nutrition, exercise or any other scope of healthy behavior or about any method or therapy are made, their source (original publication or the author’s personal opinion) is clearly stated. Every post is linked to its source of information. Any kind of information posted on the web site is referenced and properly dated.

Privacy

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Advertising policy

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Created: 21/10/2008