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Current Perspectives in Bladder Cancer Management
This overview focuses on current best-evidence in the diagnosis and management of transitional cell carcinoma, which comprises over 90% of bladder cancers.
Antidepressant Overtreatment Associated With Brief Screening
Are primary care physicians over-prescribing antidepressants based on unreliable screening tools?
Management of Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease in Primary Care
Worldwide, the management of most CKD patients will remain a primary care domain in the next future. In this study, high-total quality of care was only achieved in 35% of patients.
Direct-to-Consumer Advertising and Physician Diagnosing
Findings suggest this type of advertising is related to the provision of health care for people with certain diseases.
Heart Failure Factors in Patients on Etoricoxib or Diclofenac
The agent, the dose, and certain patient characteristics can all figure in to the risk of NSAID-associated heart failure.
Follow-up Care of Underserved Breast Cancer Survivors
How can primary care physicians impact preventive follow-up care after a breast cancer diagnosis in low-income women?
Impact of Behaviour and Lifestyle on Bladder Health
This article reviews the current state of knowledge on modifiable behavioral and lifestyle factors that may influence bladder conditions such as UTIs, urinary frequency, nocturia, and bladder cancer.
Guaifenesin as a Treatment for Primary Dysmenorrhea
Can cough medicine help relieve menstrual problems?
Postpartum Depression Screening
Can you recognize postpartum depression, and, if so, can you do anything about it?
Stroke and CVD Prevention With Lipid Lowering Drugs
Should statins or fibrates be routinely prescribed for primary prevention of stroke and cardiovascular disease in people over 65?
Preventing the Onset of Major Depressive Disorder
Is major depression preventable? This meta-analysis of preventive interventions aimed to determine what might work.
Incidental Adrenal Mass on CT: Adrenal Disease With No Known Malignancy
Disease prevalence helps predict malignancy risk when an adrenal mass is found in patients without known cancer. What are the prevalence and cause of adrenal masses identified on CT in these patients?
Do Physicians Underrecognize Obesity?
Studies have shown that only a minority of obese patients receive weight loss advice. Might this be due to their physician's failure to recognize and document true obesity?
Mendelian Randomization of Blood Lipids for CHD
Find greater clarity in the causal role of HDL cholesterol and triglycerides in coronary heart disease.
Practical Steps to Improving the Management of Type 1 Diabetes
Gaps in care remain in the treatment of patients with Type 1 diabetes. Based on recent evidence, the Global Partnership for Effective Diabetes Management makes recommendations for best management.
Azithromycin-chloroquine, Intermittent Treatment of Malaria in Pregnancy
Malaria in pregnancy is an important cause of maternal, perinatal, and neonatal morbidity in sub-Saharan Africa. Is azithromycin-chloroquine an appropriate treatment strategy?
The Attributable Mortality of Delirium in Critically Ill Patients
How dangerous is delirium in severely ill patients, and how it could contribute to mortality? This new study takes a look at recent research.
Measuring Shortness of Breath In Heart Failure
A visual analog scale for shortness of breath could make differential diagnosis for HF easier in acute settings.
Magnitude of Maternal Morbidity During Labor and Delivery
Until recently, the only national outcome indicator of maternal health -- a woman's health during pregnancy, childbirth, and the puerperium -- was maternal mortality.
The National Institute for Program Director Development
Many residency program directors have few peers in their own institutions with whom to work and learn.