Internal Medicine Alert – March 30, 2016
March 30, 2016
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Use of Smartphone Applications for Patients’ Health and Fitness
Health and fitness apps currently available on many smartphones contain a wealth of behavior change techniques typically used in clinical behavior interventions and may represent a medium by which these interventions can be adjusted rapidly as needed.
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Acupuncture for Acute Low Back Pain in the Emergency Department
Use of acupuncture significantly reduced pain in study patients.
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Eat Less Sugar: The New National Dietary Guidelines
A strict adherence to a lower sugar intake may improve the incidences of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, but the guidelines could have, and should have, gone much further to apply the latest research to promoting dietary change in the United States.
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Prescient Warning Symptoms: A New Target for Sudden Cardiac Death Prevention
Typical cardiac symptoms frequently precede sudden cardiac arrest and are frequently unheeded, but when acted on are associated with decreased mortality.
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Coagulation Factor IX (Recombinant), Albumin Fusion Protein
This product is indicated for on-demand control and prevention of bleeding episodes, perioperative management of bleeding, or routine prophylaxis to prevent or reduce the frequency of bleeding episodes in children and adults with hemophilia B (congenital factor IX deficiency).
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Clinical Briefs
In this section: a better way to measure blood pressure; the magical powers of grapefruit juice; and yet another reason to stop smoking.