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- How physicians can help create useful clinical practice guidelines
A team-based strategy for creating guidelines that physicians will accept and use.
- Hormone replacement and breast cancer: Implications of the Iowa Women’s Health Study
A recent study does not resolve the controversy about whether hormone replacement therapy causes breast cancer, but it gives us another reason for cautious optimism that this therapy is safe.
- Minimizing the risk of NSAID-induced GI bleeding
As many people die of NSAID-induced bleeding as die of AIDS. Physicians should prescribe these drugs more selectively, and advise patients to limit their use of over-the-counter products.
- A 64-year-old woman with fever and acute polyarthritis
What is the likely cause of this patient's symptoms? A self-test on a clinical case.
- Human papillomavirus typing and the reduction of cervical cancer risk
For women with low-grade abnormalities on their Pap smear, testing for human papillomavirus can give useful information, but also has limitations.
In diagnosing hepatitis C, which patient needs which test?A diagnostic algorithm that takes into account the patient's baseline risk.
- Drug Therapy, Medical Management, and Interventional Strategies
In this issue, we begin a series designed to guide the clinician through the bewildering array of treatment options.
- Searching the Internet for medical information: Practical tips
Finding a specific piece of information on the Internet can be difficult, but a few simple search techniques can make the task easier.
- The pathogenesis and spectrum of acute coronary syndromes: From plaque formation to thrombosis
Acute coronary syndromes occur when vulnerable plaque ruptures, leading to acute thrombosis. With an illustration explaining this chain of events.