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- The case for more aggressive screening and treatment of mild thyroid failure
What do you do if a patient has mildly elevated TSH but normal T4 and T3 levels?
Is there an age at which we should stop performing screening Pap smears and mammography?Mammography is reasonable if life expectancy is at least 5 years, but screening for cervical cancer is more complex.
- The B-type natriuretic peptide assay: A rapid test for heart failure
This 15-minute test is highly sensitive and fairly specific and is useful in evaluating suspected heart failure in outpatients and in emergency care.
- Hereditary hemochromatosis: A common, often unrecognized, genetic disease
Although hereditary hemochromatosis is one of the most common genetic diseases affecting people of northern European descent, it is underdiagnosed.
