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- Safe use of opioids in chronic noncancer pain
Many physicians needlessly avoid prescribing opioid analgesics for chronic pain because of misconceptions about efficacy, adverse effects, abuse, and addiction potential.
- Radiologic imaging in rhinosinusitis
Imaging may be necessary for rhinosinusitis that is refractory, chronic, recurrent, or complicated.
- A world without Vioxx: To COX-2 or not to COX-2?
Are all selective COX-2 inhibitors associated with an increased risk for thromboembolic cardiovascular events? And what should we tell patients?
- Treating osteoporosis in postmenopausal women: A case approach
We now have several agents of different classes for treating postmenopausal osteoporosis. In this paper, a case report serves as the focus for a discussion of the risk factors for postmenopausal osteoporosis and of the available therapies.
- Which adults with acute diarrhea should be evaluated?
Data are scarce, but certain factors call for a more detailed evaluation.
- Hospital management of diabetes: Beyond the sliding scale
Tight glucose control has been shown to improve clinical outcomes in hospitalized patients. The challenge now is implementation.
- Tight inpatient glucose control: Why didn’t we think of this before?
Standardized algorithms to manage chronic diseases such as diabetes in the hospital should get more patients out of the hospital alive.
Drug-eluting stents: The beginning of the end of restenosis?Drug-eluting stents are here, and they are better than ordinary stents. But how much better?
- Drug-eluting stents are here—now what? Implications for clinical practice and health care costs
Many clinical and economic questions remain concerning how to apply these new stents.
- A construction worker with recent confusion, disorientation, and somnolence
What is the cause of this patient’s symptoms: the bump on the head he received at work, or his “occasional” drinking?