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Clinical Briefs By Louis Kuritzky, MD
Peripheral Artery Disease: Helping Patients to Walk the Walk; Long-Term Functional Outcomes After Localized Prostate Cancer Treatment; A Relationship Between Nocturia and Hypertension -
Tennis Elbow, Anyone?
Neither physical therapy nor steroid injection improved primary outcomes of tennis elbow at 1 year; in fact, steroid injection was associated with worse outcome. Physical therapy was associated with some improvement in short-term outcomes and secondary measures. -
Internal Medicine Alert - Full March 15, 2013 Issue in PDF
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Pharmacology Update: Bedaquiline Tablets (Sirturo)
The FDA has approved bedaquiline, a first in class drug for the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. -
Lowering Blood Pressure but Raising the Risk of Hip Fracture
The risk of hip fracture goes up for about 6 weeks immediately after older people start taking antihypertensives. -
Does Intensive Lifestyle Intervention Reverse Type 2 Diabetes?
After 4 years, the intensive lifestyle intervention resulted in a greater likelihood of partial remission of type 2 diabetes. -
Are You Feeling the Heat of Professional Burnout? You Are Probably in Good Company!
A total of 27,276 U.S. physicians received an invitation to participate in a prospective study using the validated Maslach Burnout Inventory. -
Hospital Medicine Alert - Full March 1, 2013 Issue in PDF
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Surgeon-To-Patient HBV Transmission, CDC Update on Chronically Infected
A surgeon reported having suffered a sharps injury while performing an orthopedic procedure. -
Apixaban vs Warfarin for Atrial Fibrillation
Atrial fibrillation (AF) and stroke are common in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), but many such patients are not anticoagulated for fear of bleeding complications.