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Among patients with coronary heart disease and LDL-cholesterol levels less than 70 mg/dL, there is no incremental clinical benefit from the addition of niacin to statin therapy during a 36-month follow-up, despite improvements in HDL-cholesterol and triglyceride levels.
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Nocturnal leg cramps are frequently preceded by the prescription of diuretics, statins, and inhaled long-acting ß2-agonists.
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Yoga, a stretching program, and a self-care book on low back pain were compared in a three-armed randomized trial for patients with chronic low back pain. The findings showed that yoga was significantly more effective than was using the self-care book, whereas yoga and stretching classes were equally effective. The benefits lasted for at least 26 weeks.
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Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is a common vaginal infection causing significant gynecologic and obstetric morbidity.
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Evidence for the use of probiotics in a variety of medical conditions continues to accumulate.
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Through a small but exquisite study, the authors of this investigatory intervention trial provide a plausible subcellular explanation for massage therapy's purported benefits on injured muscle using muscle biopsy and subsequent gene profiling. The application of similar study techniques might be expected in future studies of other CAM therapies directed against pain.
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New treatment for prostate cancer; avastin and breast cancer; new CMS disclosure rule; and FDA actions.
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Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) can cause symptomatic claudication and it can reduce quality of life.
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The management of asymptomatic patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS) is controversial. Patients meeting standard echocardiographic criteria for severe stenosis have a variety of pressure gradients and flow rates that can be divided into four categories based on normal flow vs low flow (NF vs LF) and low gradient vs high gradient (LG vs HG), where LF is defined as a stroke volume index (SVI) of < 35 mL/m2 and LG is a mean gradient < 40 mmHg.
