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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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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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ECG Review: What Has Happened in 8 Minutes?
The ECG in the figure illustrates how rapidly ST-T wave changes may develop during active stages of acute ST elevation myocardial infarction. In this case, no more than 8 minutes was necessary for the ECG to evolve from a minimally abnormal tracing to the dramatic picture of diffuse ST-T wave changes.
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Clinical Briefs
In this section: The measurement of C-reactive protein in hidradenitis patients may enhance assessment of disease severity; studying the relationship between gut flora and mood disorders; and weighing the benefits of administration of pre-exposure prophylaxis immediately before and after sexual activity.