Internal Medicine Alert – May 30, 2004
May 30, 2004
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Something to Offer Your Fibromyalgia Patients
Most women with fibromyalgia have a variant of sleep apnea when carefully tested, and their symptoms improve with CPAP treatment. -
Can You Spell "El Mundo" Backwards?
When administering the MMSE, use of serial 7s produces a more reliable score. -
Exercise Training for Angina
A 12-month program of regular exercise in selected patients with chronic stable angina and significant CAD resulted in a higher event-free survival and exercise capacity at lower costs than PCI. -
Rate Control in Atrial Fibrillation — Why? How?
Management of atrial fibrillation with a rhythm-control strategy conferred no advantage over a rate-control strategy in cardiac or vascular mortality and may be associated with an increased noncardiovascular death rate. -
Pharmacology Update: Telithromycin Tablets (Ketek)
The FDA has approved telithromycin, the first ketolide antibiotic. -
Clinical Briefs
Alendronate for Osteoporosis; Exercise Training in Patients Chronic Heart Failure; Cardiovascular Prognosis of Masked Hypertension