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From the Editor
- What’s your opinion of CCJM’s Patient Information page?
Is our Patient Information page useful “as is,” or are changes in order? Let us know.
1-Minute Consult
Can calcium and vitamin D supplementation adequately treat most patients with osteoporosis?Although calcium and vitamin D play an important role in treating osteoporosis, they are not adequate by themselves.
Medical Grand Rounds
- Osteoporosis: Which current treatments reduce fracture risk?
With effective agents available, physicians should make osteoporosis treatment a priority, especially for patients at high risk.
Review
- Tricyclic antidepressant poisoning
Tricyclic overdose—intentional or otherwise—is still common and can be lethal. Keep it in mind, and be aware of the pitfalls in its diagnosis.
Cancer Diagnosis and Management
- The evolving role of hormone therapy in advanced prostate cancer
If the patient’s prostate-specific antigen level resumes rising after surgery or radiotherapy for prostate cancer, the next step is hormonal therapy.
Review
- Diastolic dysfunction and heart failure: Causes and treatment options
Although diastolic dysfunction is the underlying problem in at least one third of cases of heart failure, it is still poorly understood.
- How to help your patients lose weight: Current therapy for obesity
Although weight-loss drugs won’t produce miracles, attempts at weight loss are worth the effort.
- Diagnosis and treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease in the elderly
As people age, GERD becomes more common, more likely to cause complications, and more challenging to diagnose and treat.
Patient Information
Review
- Incorporating soy protein into a low-fat, low-cholesterol diet
The USDA recommends eating at least 25 g/day of soy protein as part of a low-fat diet to reduce LDL levels.
