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- 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.
- The ALLHAT Trial
Diuretics are unsurpassed in lowering blood pressure, reducing clinical events, tolerability, and low cost.
- An 18-year-old man with swelling in his left thumb
What is the cause of this patients symptoms? A self-test.
- Do patients who fail to complete a hepatitis A or hepatitis B vaccination series have to restart it?
Limited data indicate that neither series need he restarted.
Mechanical treatment of heart failure: The growing role of LVADs and artificial heartsThe devices can keep a patient alive while waiting for a transplant, and they might allow a damaged heart to recover.
- Osteoporosis in men: Suspect secondary disease first
Osteoporosis is a disease not only of women. In men particularly, we need to seek an underlying cause.
- Isoflavones and the prevention and treatment of prostate disease: Is there a role?
Conclusive proof can only come from clinical trials.
- Mechanical cardiac support: Is the bridge a destination when you’re stuck on it?
Mechanical support of the circulation raises myriad problems. Answers will come, but slowly.