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- A 67-year-old woman with sudden onset of chest pain and dyspnea
Questions and answers on the visible signs of diseases.
- Handheld computers are fun, sometimes even useful
“Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.”
- Elusive syndromes: Treating the biologic basis of fibromyalgia and related syndromes
Fibromyalgia may have a stronger physiologic basis than previously thought, and its symptoms can be alleviated.
- Information at hand: Using handheld computers in medicine
If you are not using a handheld computer in your practice yet, chances are you soon will.
- The dangers of self-monitored dieting: What are our patients really doing?
Patient-monitored diets often leave questions of adherence and safety unanswered.
- At what level of hyperkalemia or creatinine elevation should ACE inhibitor therapy be stopped or not started?
These drugs are a double-edged sword: they slow the decline in renal function in many patients, yet reduce renal function in some.
- Physician’s guide to popular low-carbohydrate weight-loss diets
These diets can take pounds off fast but usually fail in the long term and can jeopardize health.
- Adverse drug reactions and medication errors: Not always a clear distinction
Unrecognized adverse drug reactions can quickly become medication errors.
Should amphetamines be added to SSRI therapy to enhance the antidepressant effect?Despite anecdotal reports of an additive effect, no firm conclusions can be drawn.
