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- Attitudes toward childbearing and changes in sexual and contraceptive practices among HIV-infected women
After studying 46 women with HIV infection, the authors found that counseling often was not adequate and that, though sexual practices changed, further study is needed to see if these changes are sustained.
- Influencing health behavior: physicians as agents of change
Physicians’ rediscovery of their role as educators, not simply interventionists, is the key to the medicine of the future.
- Dilate or debulk?
In this first in a new series of informal dialogues on controversial and emerging topics in cardiac diagnosis and therapy, two internationally known investigators tally the relative merits of atherectomy and angioplasty for percutaneous therapy of coronary artery disease.
- Pleural changes in malignant pleural effusions: appearance on computed tomography
CT scanning appears to facilitate demonstration of several features that should arouse the clinician’s and radiologist’s suspicion of pleural malignancy.
- Labetalol and other agents that block both alpha- and beta-adrenergic receptors
A review of how these agents can be used in managing difficult-to-control hypertension.
- Durability of bipolar coaxial endocardial pacemaker leads compared with unipolar leads
Bipolar coaxial leads are preferable to unipolar leads in most aspects. Yet survival of bipolar coaxial leads in long-term follow-up studies seems worse than that of unipolar leads, indicating the need to reevaluate the risk-benefit ratio of the coaxial design.