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Urinary Urge Incontinence and Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy
Pelvic floor physical therapy with myofascial release techniques improves urinary symptoms and provides an alternate option to medications and more invasive therapies.
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Should Postmenopausal Women Be Encouraged to Take Calcium?
A systematic review of randomized, controlled trials of calcium supplementation found only small non-progressive increases in bone mineral density. This supports the clinical conclusion that supplementation alone is insufficient to prevent fracture risk.
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Should We Remove Every Woman’s Fallopian Tubes?
This article discusses the role of salpingectomy for the prevention of ovarian and fallopian tube cancer.
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Left Ventricular Assist Devices for Ambulatory Heart Failure: Weighing the Risks and Benefits
Recent data support the use of the HeartMate II left ventricular assist devices in functionally limited, non-inotrope-dependent heart failure patients who have poor quality of life and meet FDA criteria for destination therapy LVAD.
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Utility of Non-traditional Risk Factors
Adding additional risk factors not in the pooled risk equation to low-risk subjects identified a sub-group with an observed event rate > 7.5% who may warrant statin therapy.
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Temporal Relationship Between Atrial Fibrillation and Ischemic Stroke?
Multiple hours of atrial fibrillation had a strong but transient effect raising stroke risk, suggesting that a strategy of intermittent targeted usage of rapidly acting anticoagulants might merit further consideration by a randomized trial.
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Aortic Valve Replacement in Asymptomatic Patients: Can Registry Data Replace Randomized, Controlled Trials?
Patients with severe asymptomatic aortic stenosis managed conservatively have “dismal” outcomes in real-world practice.
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Optimal Beta-blocker Dose Post-MI
ABSTRACT & COMMENTARY: A look at survival rates using high and low doses of beta blockers.
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The Vitals - November 2015
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Why don’t more uninsured seek health coverage?
Fewer people need help from free clinics, because of insurance options made possible by the Affordable Care Act. But many still rely on free primary care because they lack health insurance.