Search results for "Supplements"
Food allergies are a tough nut to crack
As public awareness of food allergies increases, identification and management into adulthood can be difficult to sort out, carrying the risk of misdiagnosis, according to specialists who are trying to improve physician education.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/05/allergies.htm
1 May 2011
Attribution error results from a positive stereotype
A 58-year-old man with type 1 diabetes at age 38, a case of latent autoimmune diabetes of adulthood, reports worsening control of his blood sugars despite increasing doses of insulin. An internist must sort through the facts of the case to find out what's responsible.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/05/mindful.htm
1 May 2011
New algorithm helps weed out unneeded drugs in the elderly
Geriatrician Doron Garfinkel, MD, developed the Good Palliative-Geriatric Practice algorithm for discontinuing elderly patients' unneeded medications. In a study, he showed how it led to discontinuing 58% of the drugs taken by a group of community-dwelling elderly.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/05/medications.htm
1 May 2011
Don't look now, but you are surrounded
Skin, teeth and guts. Microbes live on or in each, and a new interest exists in how to manipulate the human microbiome to benefit human health.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2011/06/genomics.htm
1 Jun 2011
Vitamin D guidelines advise on dietary intake, screening for deficiency
New guidelines from the Endocrine Society offer recommendations on evaluation, treatment and prevention of vitamin D deficiency.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2011/06/14/1.htm
14 Jun 2011
MKSAP Quiz: pain, urinary frequency and dysuria
This week's quiz asks readers to evaluate a 52-year-old man with a 3-month history of perineal and suprapubic pain.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2011/11/08/3.htm
8 Nov 2011
Two-thirds of adverse drug event hospitalizations in elderly linked to four drugs
Just four drugs were involved in more than two-thirds of the hospitalizations of older patients for adverse drug events from 2007 through 2009, a new analysis found.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2011/12/06/6.htm
6 Dec 2011
ACP releases updated Ethics Manual
ACP has released the sixth edition of the Ethics Manual, published as a supplement with the Jan. 3 Annals of Internal Medicine.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2012/01/10/10.htm
10 Jan 2012
High-dose vitamin D does not reduce COPD exacerbations, study finds
Supplementation with high doses of vitamin D did not reduce exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in most patients in a small new study.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2012/01/24/4.htm
24 Jan 2012
Experts debate the pros and cons of starting dialysis early
Two experts find common ground in deciding that individualized decisions are the best way to consider early dialysis.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2012/02/dialysis.htm
1 Feb 2012