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Opioids for Chronic Nonterminal Pain
This article presents current evidence on the benefits and risks of long-term opioid therapy, suggests a structured approach to chronic opioid management for pain, and discusses some of the issues surrounding opioid treatment of chronic pain.
Noise Levels Associated With New York City's Mass Transit Systems
What measures can be taken to prevent mass transit noise exposure related hearing loss?
Evaluation and Management of the Adult With Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease
Learn more about the evaluation and management of BAV in adults.
Pharmacist Involvement in Medical Missions
A pharmacy school describes its medical missions program for students.
Hepatitis C for Primary Care Physicians
With new recommendations to screen for asymptomatic hepatitis C, family physicians will increasingly be responsible for the diagnosis and management of infected patients. What do you need to know?
Nursing the Adopted Infant
An adoptive mother may be able to produce milk. Probably, most physicians and adoptive parents are unaware of this potential opportunity.
Patients With Diabetes Requiring ED Care for Hypoglycemia
Gain a better understanding of the characteristics and outcomes of type 1 and type 2 diabetics who present to the ED with hypoglycemia.
Assessing Vaccine Safety in Childhood and Mass Immunization
This study examined the background incidence of diagnoses often associated with vaccine safety concerns, in order to assess the causality of serious adverse events during immunization.
Access to Care, Health Status, and Health Disparities in the US
Disparities based on race, income, and immigrant status were present in both countries but were more pronounced in the United States.
More Rules for Improving Pharmacotherapy in Older Adults
Do you know the "seven deadly sins of prescribing"? The second part of this two-part article review provides some additional simple, objective rules for improving pharmacotherapy in older adults.
Urinary Incontinence in the Elderly
Urinary incontinence (UI), the involuntary loss of urine so severe as to have social and/or hygienic consequences for individuals and/or their caregivers, is a major clinical problem and a significant cause of disability and dependency.
Opioids and the Control of Respiration
What are the mechanisms of opioid-induced respiratory depression and how can safer opioid analgesia be achieved? Future research avenues are proposed.
Changes in Cognition During Antiretroviral Therapy
In order for HAART regimens to be effective against HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders, good CNS penetration is necessary--but is it sufficient?
HCV-Specific T-Cell Responses in HIV/HCV-Coinfected Patients
How does suppression of HIV via HAART in HIV/HCV co-infection affect HCV response rates?
Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitors for T2DM
Learn about the new sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors canagliflozin and dapagliflozin in this overview, including their benefits, adverse effects, and potential place in therapy.
Carcinoma of the Prostate Presenting With Skin Metastasis
Small cell carcinoma of the prostate, a very rare and aggressive type of prostate cancer, is often diagnosed at an advanced stage. In this patient, SCCP metastasized to an unusual site.
Sports Participation and Cardiac Events in Cardiomyopathy
Do sports increase the risk of ventricular tachyarrhythmias and death in patients with arrhythmogenic right-ventricular cardiomyopathy?
Making Sense of Head Injuries in Young Athletes
What can practitioners do to reduce the risk of concussion for kids in sports?
TSAS Admixed With Other Serrated Polyps and Adenomas
This study examined three different types of serrated colonic polyps to determine their incidence, extent and pattern of coexistence.
Flow Cytometric Analysis on Lymph Node Samples to Diagnose Non-Hodgkin's
How does simultaneous cytomorphologic and multiparametric flow cytometric analysis on lymph nodes measure up to histopathologic analysis for diagnosing non-Hodgkin lymphomas?