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Should speculations about immune-mediated adverse effects of Lyme disease vaccine deter us from giving it?The vaccine is safe, but should not replace simple common-sense precautions in tick-infested areas.
- Pharmacologic aids to smoking cessation
Quitting smoking is notoriously hard. Drugs can improve the odds of quitting, but the best approach is multifactorial.
- A 65-year-old factory worke with dyspnea on exertion and a normal chest x-ray
What is the cause of this patient’s symptoms? A self-test on a clinical case.
- In diabetes, treat hidden heart disease
Both diabetic and prediabetic patients have abnormal vascular reactivity and should be considered to have occult cardiovascular disease.
- Using troponin T to diagnose acute coronary syndromes
Troponin T and creatine kinase MB have complementary roles. Includes a diagnostic algorithm.
- Heart failure is a fever: The cytokine connection
The discovery that inflammation contributes to heart failure may lead to new therapies for this disease.
- Factor V Leiden and Prothrombin G20210A
Genetic testing is useful only if the knowledge gained will affect the course of treatment.
- Treatment of ovarian cancers not of epithelial origin
Some ovarian cancers carry a prognosis quite different from that of epithelial ovarian cancer, and call for totally different treatment.
