In this issue: Aspirin use and AMD risk; using NSAIDs and antihypertensive agents; and FDA actions.
New guidelines provide a simple response to occupational exposure to HIV: Take three anti-retrovirals as soon as possible and re-evaluate after 72 hours.
30-day all-cause hospital admission rates lowered in older patients with chronic systolic heart failure who were started on digoxin when compared to placebo.
This article originally appeared in the August 29, 2013, issue of Internal Medicine Alert
Evidence-based updates in primary care medicine By Louis Kuritzky, MD
Supplement to Clinical Cardiology Alert, Clinical Oncology Alert, Critical Care Alert, Hospital Medicine Alert, Infectious Disease Alert, Neurology Alert, OB/GYN Clinical Alert, Primary Care Reports.
A recently published MRSA study showing a universal decolonization approach is more effective than active detection and isolation (ADI) has prompted critical questions from proponents of ADI.