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A randomized, controlled trial of obese men, ages 35 to 55, with erectile dysfunction showed that weight loss and increased physical activity allowed 31% to regain sexual function and most reduced their cardiac risk factors.
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Among patients with early, localized prostate cancer, the mortality rate accelerated after 15 years.
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Current rofecoxib use was associated with a higher risk of acute myocardial infarction or admission for heart failure compared to celecoxib.
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Last February, a respected medical journal published a study that suggested non-cancer patients would be better served if they were admitted to hospice sooner. Days later, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) in Alexandria, VA, released figures showing that a record number of people received hospice care in 2002, yet one-third of hospice patients died within one week of admission.
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As you prepare your next fundraiser, you cant help but think: How often can we go to the same people year after year, sometimes more than once a year, before they say no more?
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This report from multiple cooperating centers describes findings in 403 patients who presented with dysphagia and 140 patients with noncardiac chest pain and 44 patients with both symptoms on presentation.
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This report by Song and colleagues used a validated food frequency questionnaire in 39,345 women from the Womens Health Study.
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The FDA has approved the first once-a-week combined hormone therapy for postmenopausal symptoms.
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How would you interpret the 12-lead ECG shown in the Figure? What is distinctly unusual about this tracing? What would you ask the technician who recorded this tracing?
