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- Aggressive treatment of atherosclerosis: The time is now
Too often, we treat the ischemia but ignore the atherosclerosis. A systematic approach is needed.
- West Nile fever: Lessons from the 2002 season
How to diagnose West Nile fever more quickly and recognize a rare polio-like syndrome it causes. Treatment remains problematic.
- Using BNP to diagnose, manage, and treat heart failure
The BNP assay can help guide treatment from diagnosis to hospital discharge. Synthetic BNP is an important new drug.
- Supersized America: Help your patients regain control of their weight
Despite disheartening statistics, patients are more likely to lose weight if their physicians encourage them to do so.
- Erectile dysfunction: Why drug therapy isn’t always enough
We must not neglect the central role of the mind and emotional relationships in sexual physiology.
- Improving care of chronic heart failure: Advances from drugs to devices
The right combination of drugs and surgical treatment can improve systolic function and prevent, attenuate, or reverse heart failure.
- Preventing kidney stones: Calcium restriction not warranted
Normal dietary calcium intake, along with reduced salt and protein, is now advised.
- So you’re being sued: Do’s and don’ts for the defendant
You may be dangerously uninformed about a process you might well have to face: malpractice litigation.
- Acute stroke therapy: Beyond IV tPA
The quest to improve treatment includes intra-arterial infusion of thrombolytics, mechanical interventions, and neuroprotection through hypothermia.