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For women with suspected urinary tract infection, there is no advantage to routinely sending midstream urine samples for testing; antibiotics based on dipstick tests with a delayed prescription as backup, or empirical delayed prescription, can help to reduce antibiotic use.
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Nonspecific chest pain is a persistent illness and patients with it are subject to overly extensive work-ups.
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The FDA has approved a potassium channel blocker to improve walking in adults with multiple sclerosis.
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Even if asymptomatic, early elective aortic valve replacement should be considered for increasingly symptomatic patients with severe aortic valve stenosis because they have a poor prognosis with a high event rate and a risk of rapid functional deterioration, especially if the peak aortic jet velocity is above 5.5 m/sec.
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The burgeoning population of individuals with type 2 diabetes corresponds to a parallel increase in obesity.
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The ECG shown above was obtained from a 66-year-old woman with chest discomfort. What is going on in this tracing?
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Guidelines to assess cardiovascular risk are often inconsistent and poorly developed.
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About a third of patients with sleep apnea have chronic cough. Such patients are more likely to be women and to have heartburn and rhinitis.
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A second human glucagon-like peptide 1 (glp-1) analog/receptor agonist has been approved by the FDA for the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2).
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Two oral medications for relapsing-remitting MS in phase III development; antihypertensives find new uses; Ginkgo biloba does not prevent cognitive decline in elderly; and FDA Actions
