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- Physician’s guide to the new 2005 dietary guidelines: How best to counsel patients
Health care providers can become agents of change and give patients practical suggestions for taking in fewer calories, being more physically active, and making wiser food choices.
- New Series
Each article begins with an actual case and focuses on how imaging should be used to establish or exclude a particular diagnosis, with emphasis on the care of the patient.
- Primary percutaneous coronary intervention for acute MI: Improving access and outcomes
Patients have a better chance of surviving an acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction if they undergo percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) rather than fibrinolytic therapy. Studies have addressed ways to improve PCI and to make it more accessible.
- The oracle of cough
About 18 months ago my wife began coughing. After a month or so, I naively wondered about the possibility of pertussis.
- Treating depression in a mother of five: What to do when the first step fails
If depression does not respond to an antidepressant given in adequate doses for an adequate time, logical next steps include increasing the dose, adding a different medication, or adding nonpharmacologic therapy. Or one can reconsider the diagnosis.
- Respiratory disorders in neurologic diseases
Pulmonary complications often arise late in the course of neurologic diseases. Common principles apply in their management.
- Intravascular ultrasonography: Using imaging end points in coronary atherosclerosis trials
Intravascular ultrasonography can precisely measure plaque and is being used to test new drug therapies. Other imaging tests may also prove useful to identify people at risk for coronary artery disease and to monitor treatment.
Genetics and cardiomyopathy: Where are we now?Genetic discoveries have changed our understanding of the cardiomyopathies but are only beginning to change our clinical practice.