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Patients are desperately looking for weight loss plans that do not involve consuming fewer calories or burning more of them. Perhaps they should be told about the relationship between sleep, weight, and
appetite.
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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.
