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Study: No Link Between Dementia, Benzodiazepine Use
New research upends previous beliefs.
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Updated Antithrombotic Therapy Guidelines Released
The guideline contains some significant changes from the previous CHEST guidelines.
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Smoking and Low Back Pain
Yet another reason to encourage smoking cessation.
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What’s the Deal with Grapefruit Juice?
Research suggests the combination of grapefruit juice with simvastatin would increase simvastatin blood levels, but at the same time would possibly reduce cardiovascular event levels to a degree that would counterbalance any increased risk of rhabdomyolysis.
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Ambulatory BP for All
Considering that it could save a patient years of unnecessary treatment, we should follow the advice the British adopted long ago: ambulatory blood pressure monitoring for all initially diagnosed hypertensives to confirm the diagnosis.
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A New Category of Orthostatic Hypotension
Measurement of postural changes in blood pressure from supine to seated may be helpful to sort out symptoms such as dizziness or falls, especially in older patients.
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Electrical and Lightning Injuries
Although electrical injuries are rare, patients who present with these injuries to emergency departments pose particular challenges to emergency physicians and trauma surgeons.
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Eluxadoline for IBS-D
Eluxadoline demonstrated a modest but statistically significant greater ability to reach the primary endpoint and was generally well tolerated.
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Sexual Health Supplement Leads to Priapism
In addition to personal preferences, which often motivate patients to seek non-traditional treatments, the current high cost of FDA-approved pharmacologic treatments may motivate some individuals to seek much less expensive OTC remedies.
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Improving hand hygiene compliance with new technology
Web-based application produces big gains in compliance, significant reductions in healthcare-associated infections.