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Top 10 medical myths, busted

Ten medical myths persist despite all the evidence.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2019/06/top-10-medical-myths-busted.htm
1 Jun 2019

AHA/ASA releases updated guidelines for primary prevention of stroke

The American Heart Association/American Stroke Association last week released updated guidelines on the primary prevention of stroke that included new recommendations on the use of statins, blood pressure management, and risk stratification for atrial fibrillation.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2014/11/04/4.htm
4 Nov 2014

MKSAP Quiz: Evaluation of chest pain

A 75-year-old woman is evaluated in the hospital 4 hours after onset of chest pain with findings of an ST-elevation myocardial infarction. She was taken emergently to the catheterization laboratory and underwent emergency percutaneous coronary intervention for a totally occluded vessel. Her post-intervention ventriculogram demonstrated a left ventricular ejection fraction of 30%. One hour after the procedure, she developed an acute arrhythmia. Medications are aspirin, metoprolol, atorvastatin, and clopidogrel. Following a physical exam, cardiac exam and electrocardiogram, what is the most appropriate management?.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2016/04/mksap.htm
1 Apr 2016

Clopidogrel plus aspirin may reduce stroke risk better than aspirin alone after TIA, minor stroke

Patients with transient ischemic attack (TIA) or minor stroke who received clopidogrel and aspirin within 24 hours of symptom onset had a lower stroke risk than those who received aspirin alone, with no apparent increase in hemorrhage risk, a new study indicated.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2013/07/02/5.htm
2 Jul 2013

Atrial fibrillation patients often prescribed aspirin instead of anticoagulants, study finds

Cardiologists may be prescribing aspirin instead of oral anticoagulants because they think that aspirin is as efficacious as oral anticoagulants, or because they want to avoid the inconvenience of oral anticoagulation.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2016/06/21/4.htm
21 Jun 2016

Obituaries

ACP recognizes former college officials who have passed.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2018/11/obits.htm
1 Nov 2018

Prior aspirin use a marker for recurrent events post-ACS, but not mortality

Peer support lowered A1cs in male veterans
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2010/10/19/4.htm
19 Oct 2010

Long-term aspirin use may prevent colorectal cancer, analysis shows

The benefit of aspirin on GI tract cancers was seen at a minimum of 6 years of regular use and appeared to be dose-dependent, developing at 0.5 to 1.5 standard (325 mg) aspirin tablets per week.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2016/03/15/5.htm
15 Mar 2016

Mindful Medicine: Don't confuse correlation with causation

The case of a young woman mistakenly diagnosed with asthma llustrates the danger of confusing correlation and causation.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2008/07/mindful.htm
1 Jul 2008

Low-dose aspirin may protect against colorectal cancer

MKSAP Quiz: ulcerative colitis
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2010/09/21/2.htm
21 Sep 2010

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