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Do Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Cause More Chronic Pain?
Acute inflammation may protect against the development of chronic pain through neutrophil activation. Using nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs may blunt that response and contribute to chronic pain.
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Active Life, Healthy Mind
Daily exercise, frequent social interactions, and even performing regular household chores can lower dementia risk.
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Ethical Precision Medicine Requires Relying on Scientific Evidence, Safeguarding Information
American College of Physicians offers guidance as genome sequencing technology progresses quickly.
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Patients Share Preferences About Data Privacy
Most want security and accountability, are concerned about who can access their information and for what purposes.
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TJC Urges Caution About Cognitive Biases in Diagnostics
So-called “diagnostic overshadowing” can lead clinicians to miss the real causes of health problems.
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COVID-19 and Headache
Headache is a common feature of acute COVID-19 infection, as well as a long-standing feature of “long COVID” after recovery from the acute infection. Treatment is symptomatic, based on the characteristics of the headache syndrome.
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Myopathy Is Associated with Post-COVID-19 Fatigue
Prolonged fatigue after COVID-19 infection may be associated with evidence of myopathy, based on physical examination, electromyography, and muscle biopsy.
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Risk Factors Associated with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias in the United States
Two independent analyses of U.S. national surveys support evidence that targeted risk-reduction strategies may reduce the burden of Alzheimer’s disease in the population.
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Noradrenergic Drugs for the Symptomatic Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease
This meta-analysis provides evidence that drugs modulating the noradrenergic system could be effective in treating cognitive symptoms and apathy in patients with Alzheimer’s disease.
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Diabetic Emergencies: Part II
This issue concludes our two-part discussion of diabetic emergencies. Part I covered pathophysiology and clinical presentation, and part II will cover diagnostic evaluation and management.