Men's Health
- Prescribing opioids in primary care: Safely starting, monitoring, and stopping
Prescription drug abuse has reached epidemic proportions. Some patients benefi t from opioids, but many suffer harm.
- Veterans, guilt, and suicide risk: An opportunity to collaborate with chaplains?
Chaplains and clinicians bring complementary skills and services to the problem of suicide risk in veterans.
- The intersection of obstructive lung disease and sleep apnea
Many patients who have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or asthma also have obstructive sleep apnea, and vice versa.
- Prescribing exercise to help your patients lose weight
It’s not enough to tell patients to exercise. The exercise you prescribe needs to be “SMART.”
- Hope may not be the best component of an exercise regimen
Exercising to lose weight more often results in frustration than a trip to the store to buy smaller-sized clothes.
- Bulldog scalp
A 54-year-old man presented with a 2-year history of unusual skin folds on the scalp—cutis verticis gyrata.
- Obstructive sleep apnea: Who should be tested, and how?
Only 10% of people with obstructive sleep apnea are diagnosed—a dismal statistic, considering the consequences.