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Top 10 medical innovations listed for the year 2013
CLEVELAND Every year the Cleveland (OH) Clinic releases the Top 10 list of medical innovations for the coming year. -
Emergency Medicine Reports January 1, 2013 Issue in PDF
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Primary Care Reports - Full April 2012 Issue in PDF
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Medically Self-Sabotaging Behavior and its Relationship with Borderline Personality
Medically self-sabotaging behavior encompasses a number of diverse phenomena that include factitious disorder, making medical situations worse on purpose, and preventing wounds from healing. -
Clinical Briefs By Louis Kuritzky, MD
Beta-Blocker Use in Situations Other than Just Post-MI; Long-Term Sexual and Psychological Adverse Effects of Finasteride; Novel CV Risk Markers: How Much Cluck for the Buck? -
Internal Medicine Alert November 15, 2012 Issue in PDF
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Update on the Controversies of Statin Therapy
After careful evaluation of all the published studies regarding the possible adverse effects of statin therapy, Jukema et al have concluded that there is no proven increased risk of cognitive decline or cancer development. However, there is a possible small increased risk for the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus. -
Pharmacology Update: Enzalutamide Capsules (Xtandi®)
A new androgen receptor antagonist has been approved for the treatment of late-stage prostate cancer. Enzalutamide was approved 3 months ahead of schedule due to a priority review by the FDA. The drug is comarketed by Astellas Pharma and Medivation as Xtandi. -
Emergency Medicine Reports October 22, 2012 Issue in PDF
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Procedural Sedation
Procedural sedation is an important skill for emergency physicians to possess to mitigate the patient's intense physical and emotional reactions to painful and threatening procedures.