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Menopausal Hormone Therapy: Useful and Indicated for Vasomotor Symptoms
Menopausal hormone therapy is the most effective treatment for symptoms of the menopause, and benefits may exceed risks for most women within 10 years of menopause.
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Drug-resistant Hypertension? Consider Adding a Nonpharmacologic Prescription
In patients with obstructive sleep apnea and hypertension, continuous positive airway pressure use was associated with clinically and statistically significant reductions in blood pressure for both resistant and non-resistant hypertension.
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Accidental Bowel Leakage
Although there has been increased awareness of pelvic floor disorders in recent years, fecal incontinence, defined by the unintentional loss of solid or liquid stool, remains a silent epidemic.
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How Fetal Head Circumference Affects the Need for Cesarean Section
A recent study shows that infant head circumference has a greater effect on rates of cesarean section and instrumental delivery than birth weight.
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Screening for Ovarian Cancer: Helpful or Harmful?
Significant questions remain about whether screening actually saves lives.
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A New Topical Treatment for Peyronie’s Disease
H-100 is a promising agent for a vexing disorder that otherwise often requires surgical intervention.
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Pregabalin Improves Outcomes in Chronic Cough
Pregabalin appears to provide meaningful improvement in cough for patients who have been refractory to other standard interventions.
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Patient Health Questionnaire and Suicide Ideation
Clinicians should take positive results on the Patient Health Questionnaire seriously and institute appropriate suicide prevention methods.
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Severe Hypoglycemia: Identifying At-risk Groups
Hypoglycemia is such an important obstacle to optimized goal attainment in diabetes.
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Who’s Right About DPP4 Agents and Heart Failure?
Other DPP4 inhibitors such as sitagliptin or linagliptin should be considered when clinicians wish to use a DPP4 inhibitor in patients with heart failure.