After the first two to three weeks of treatment, your doctor may gradually decrease your dosage depending on your symptoms and the results of sed rate and C-reactive protein tests.

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It is also developing fast tests for two other troublesome bugs, C. difficile and resistant enterococcus.

FORBES: Clean Hands

But while the Institute ranks the car as a "top safety pick" based on its performance in front- and side-impact tests, it gave the 2012 Mercedes C-Class a "poor" grade in the new small-overlap test.

WSJ: New Safety Test Puts Car Buyers in a Quandary

"The NUT has always argued that the entry requirements for initial teacher education, which include GCSE passes grade C or above in English and maths, should be sufficient and make the additional skills tests superfluous, " said General Secretary Christine Blower.

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They indicate the minimum score on each of the four subject tests for a student who has a 75% chance of earning a grade of C or higher or a 50% chance of earning a B or higher in a typical first-year college course.

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The tests looked for antibodies for various viruses, and they came back negative for HIV and hepatitis C.

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