Internal Medicine Alert – March 30, 2004
March 30, 2004
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What’s Best for the Breast?
Use of antibiotics is associated with increased risk of breast cancer and death from breast cancer in a dose-dependent way. -
Tough Love for Low Back Pain
Graded activity can return a patient to full employment faster than usual care. -
Subclinical Thyroid Disease
Data supporting associations of subclinical thyroid disease with symptoms or adverse clinical outcomes or benefits of treatment are few. -
Pharmacology Update: Bevacizumab Injection (Avastin)
The FDA has approved the first antineoplastic that acts by the inhibiting the formation of new blood vessels in tumors. -
Clinical Briefs
Migraine and Subclinical Brain Lesions; Memantine Treatment in Alzheimer Disease; PPG in Type 2 DM