-
Adding a muscle relaxer to an NSAID added no benefit in acute neck strain.
-
For low back pain management, the usual care recommended by general practitioners does not follow evidence-based guidelines and does not provide best outcomes; this has not improved over time.
-
Middle-aged men who are overweight or obese, with or without the metabolic syndrome, are at increased risk for cardiovascular events and total death.
-
The ECG shown above was obtained from a 54-year-old woman with shortness of breath. What pulmonary findings on ECG might explain her symptoms?
-
A once-daily controlled-release formulation of hydromorphone has been approved by the FDA.
-
Haiti is one of the poorer countries in the world, with the highest per-capita rate of tuberculosis (TB) in Latin America and the Caribbean.
-
FDA is reviewing safety of TZDs; SSRI use with tamoxifen; Metformin smells like fish; FDA Actions.
-
The role of statins in treatment of dyslipidemia is well established. There are, however, limitations of statins: Residual risk is substantial, not all persons can tolerate statins, and, even with full-dose statin treatment, some patients do not achieve lipid goals.
-
Even in people who had never smoked cigarettes, pipe and cigar smoking was associated with decreased lung function and increased odds of airflow obstruction.
-
Staging of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is based primarily upon estimated GFR. Proteinuria (PRO) is a strong marker for kidney disease, yet its severity is not included in current risk stratification schemes, which are instead driven by GFR.
