More articles from Commentary
- Managing osteoporosis: Challenges and strategies
To identify those at high risk of fracture, we can use the Fracture Risk Assessment Tool, or FRAX. Patients who are prescribed a drug must also be educated about how and why to take it.
- New developments in the diagnosis of fibromyalgia syndrome: Say goodbye to tender points?
The Symptom Intensity Scale score can be used to identify and quantify fibromyalgia syndrome from information supplied by a simple questionnaire.
- A medical center is not a hospital: Reflections of a department chair still in the game
Dr. Thomas Lansdale’s commentary in the September issue resonated with many physicians because he so eloquently captured the increasing frustration that many physicians feel.
- A medical center is not a hospital
After 23 years in hospital medicine, a department chairman and clinician-educator calls it quits.
- Interpreting the Enhance Trial
The impact of the ENHANCE trial reveals more about the political climate than it does about the effects of ezetimibe on the progression of atherosclerosis.
- Infective endocarditis prophylaxis before dental procedures: New guidelines spark controversy
Many fewer people will need to receive antibiotics, according to new guidelines released by the American Heart Association.
- Four no more: The ‘PSA cutoff era’ is over
The prostate-specific antigen (PSA) value is only one of the risk factors for prostate cancer, and no PSA value rules cancer in or out. Therefore, our laboratory reports will no longer list 4.0 μg/L as the upper limit of normal. Instead, we will estimate the patient’s actual risk.
- Vulnerable patients are between a ‘ROC and a hard place’: Yes, it’s time to screen for coronary artery disease
In the September 2007 issue, Dr. Michael Lauer rejected the recently proposed Screening for Heart Attack prevention and Education (SHAPE) guidelines. The authors of the SHAPE guidelines would like to address his arguments.
- The Women’s Health Initiative and hormone therapy, 5 years later
“Although I knew then that we were in for a big change, I did not anticipate the total impact.”
- Listen to the sounds of life
My near-death experience taught me to be thankful for the sounds we can hear and treasure.