AMA: 6 Steps to Help Ensure Patients Get Preventive Care
Panel management helps physicians provide preventive and chronic care to all patients
Doctors Should Consider Financial Factors Before Career Change
Issues to consider include cost of career change, ability to use Internet to monetize skills
Adherence, Not Diet Type, Predicts Long-Term Weight Loss
Low-fat diets no more effective than higher-fat diets, researchers say
Sleep Patterns May Affect a Woman’s Diabetes Risk
Researchers say adding two or more hours of sleep each night might be a warning sign
GDM Risk Higher With More Abdominal Fat in First Trimester
Higher levels of fat equal higher risk of developing diabetes at 24 to 28 weeks of pregnancy
Online Cognitive Therapy May Benefit Some Patients
But remote counseling is not suited to people with severe mental illness, researchers say
Benefits, Harms of HTN Drugs Should be Considered for Elderly
Untreated hypertension linked to morbidity, mortality; potential harms associated with treatment
H. pylori Triple Therapy Linked to Erythema Multiforme
Case report describes 69-year-old who developed EM after seven days of triple antibiotic therapy
Age at Menopause, Hormone Therapy Linked to BCC Risk
Increased risk with late age at natural menopause and with any use of menopausal hormone therapy
Chronic PPI Exposure Tied to Hyperparathyroidism in Elderly
Correlation persists regardless of concurrent oral bisphosphonate administration