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Recommendations on a longstanding and contentious issue.
- 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.
- Tricyclic antidepressant poisoning
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Although diastolic dysfunction is the underlying problem in at least one third of cases of heart failure, it is still poorly understood.