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Patients with unexplained chronic fatigue and bodily pain are more likely to have rhinosinusitis symptoms than are people in the general population.
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Eighty-seven percent or more of patients with fatal or nonfatal myocardial infarction have major risk factors prior to the event.
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Azithromycin is an effective, single-drug therapy for mild-to-moderate community-acquired pneumonia.
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When is it safe to sit behind the wheel if youve just had a seizure? Specific seizure-free intervals vary from state to state. In this time-trend study, an analysis was undertaken to determine if lowering the interval from 12 months to 3, as was done in Arizona, increased motor vehicle accident frequency.
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This report confirms previous reports (especially the publications from the World Health Organization and the Nurses Health Study) that the risk of cardiovascular mortality associated with oral contraceptives is confined to smokers.
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The FDA has approved another HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor (statin) for the treatment of elevated cholesterol.
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Ultralow-Dose Estrogen and Bone in Older Women; Effect of Intensity of Oral Anticoagulation in Atrial Fibrillation; Patient Knowledge and Awareness of Hypertension
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The ECG in the Figure was obtained from a 63-year-old woman with a history of hypertension, heart failure, and atypical chest pain. Would you say there is typical LBBB (left bundle branch block)? Would you interpret this tracing as suggestive of LVH (left ventricular hypertrophy)? of acute MI (myocardial infarction)?
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The FDA has approved vardenafil (LevitraBayer and GlaxoSmithKline) for
the treatment of erectile dysfunction in men. Vardenafil joins
sildenafil (Viagra) as the only 2 drugs approved for this indication in
this country.
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Schoffs and colleagues looked at the occurrence of hip fracture (excluding pathologic fractures and fractures in prosthetic hips) from 1991 to 1999 and their relationship to thiazide diuretics and chlorthalidone, which is not strictly a thiazide, but behaves like one.
