Most of us dread the chief complaint of weakness. This nonspecific symptom engenders a differential that ranges from malingering to fatal, from psychiatric to cancer. The finding of demonstrable muscle weakness helps, but then leads to a confusing set of relatively rare diagnoses.
The successful treatment of General Anxiety Disorder (GAD) often requires a combination of a variety of modalities ranging from psychotherapy, behavior modification, pharmaceuticals, acupuncture, and/or mind-body techniques such as meditation or self-hypnosis.
The following article has two objectives: to provide clinically relevant information on the use of herbs in the treatment of breast cancer and to provide a context for their use. What follows is a distillation of some of the more effective botanicals, as well as some suggestions about how to use them in the setting of breast cancer.
Goal: To determine whether use of homeopathic remedies amongst pre-schoolers is associated with any change in the frequency of use of antibiotics in the same age group.
Metabolic syndrome (ms) is an accepted risk factor for adverse coronary events as well as mortality. It has been associated with accelerated coronary atherosclerosis, which is typically subclinical.
It has long been taught that lipid levels measured during hospitalization for an acute illness will be artificially low because of an acute-phase metabolic reaction. Consequently, many physicians wait weeks after hospitalization to measure lipids when they have returned to baseline levels and then start appropriate lipid lowering therapy.
Sirolimus — and paclitaxel-eluting stents have been available for use in the United States since 2003 and have a well-known safety and efficacy profile. However, these drug and polymer combinations are applied to older generation stents, which are less deliverable than the newer generation stents.
