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Fugh-Berman A, Scialli AR. Wild yam and progesterone creams. Altern Ther Women's Health 2002;4:54-56.
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Low back pain is among the top three most common complaints seen in primary care ambulatory medicine. Affecting up to 90% of the population at some time in their lives, it is second only to upper respiratory tract infection as a symptom-related reason for primary care visits. Men and women are equally afflicted with low back pain, with a steadily increasing prevalence with age.
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Nesiritide, Scios' intravenous recombinant form of human B-type naturetic peptide, has been widely used for the treatment of congestive heart failure in hospitalized patients.
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Blumenthal and colleagues point out in the introduction that psychological factors are recognized to play a significant and independent role in the development of ischemic heart disease and its complications, but it is not clear if psychological or behavioral interventions will reverse established cardiac conditions. They undertook the present study to test the hypothesis that stress reduction would lead to better cardiovascular health in individuals with established ischemic heart disease.
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Odvina and colleagues report 9 patients (8 women and 1 man) who sustained spontaneous, atraumatic, nonspinal fractures while on alendronate treatment. One patient also had a lumbar spinal fracture, but almost all of the fractures occurred in skeletal sites rich in cortical bone. In addition, 6 of the 9 patients displayed either delayed or absent fracture healing.
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