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Should You Use Soybean Protein to Lower Your Patients’ Blood Pressure?
Soybean cookies reduced diastolic and systolic blood pressure by 3 to 4 mg Hg more than did carbohydrate cookies. -
Clinical Briefs in Primary Care supplement
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Pharmacology Watch
Roche is Under Pressure Over Its Antiviral Drug Tamiflu; ACE Inhibitors or ARBs for Prediabetics?; Xigris is Approved for Severe Sepsis; ACE Inhibitors Inhibiting Aortic Valve Stenosis?; FDA Actions -
ECG Review: How Many PVCs?
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Getting Practical with Monitoring in Type 2 Diabetes
A meta-analysis of the medical literature shows that self-monitoring of blood glucose by type 2 diabetics not on insulin does not improve control of the disease compared with regular monitoring of hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c). Patients spend considerable time and resources with daily monitoring of their blood sugars. Physicians increasingly rely on quarterly HbA1c levels as a marker of control. -
Oseltamivir (Tamiflu®): Current Treatment Indications and Its Role in the Treatment/Prevention of Avian Influenza
Neuraminidase inhibitors are a class of antivirals that have activity against both influenza A and B viruses. Influenza neuraminidase cleaves terminal sialic acid residues and damages the receptors recognized by viral hemagglutinin, thereby facilitating release of virus from infected cells. In the presence of a neuraminidase inhibitor, release of virus from infected cells is impaired and the progeny viruses that are freed clump together, as sialic acid has not been cleaved. -
Full December 2005 Issue in PDF
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Clinical Briefs in Primary Care supplement
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Pharmacology Watch
Beta-Blockers Therapy for the Treatment of Hypertension; Treatments for Acute Migraine; Statin Therapy for ACS Patients; The Correct Dosing for Onychomycosis; FDA Actions -
Clinical Briefs in Primary Care supplement