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1. Statins Sap Energy, Study Affirms. Statin drugs may leave users -- especially women -- feeling drained and tired on exertion.
2. Belly Fat Loss Best to Halt Diabetes. Although two bariatric surgery techniques resulted in similar weight loss, the one that shaved more belly fat led to a better rate of diabetes remission.
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1. No CV or Cancer Risk with Insulin. The longest trial to study insulin has concluded it has a neutral effect on cardiovascular outcomes and cancer incidence.
2. Avandia, Actos May Raise Risk of Macular Edema. The diabetes drugs pioglitazone (Actos) and rosiglitazone (Avandia) appear to substantially boost risk of macular edema in type 2 ...
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1. Fish Oil Takes Down Lipids in Diabetics. Diabetics with mixed dyslipidemia who were on statins improved their lipid profiles, without worsening glycemic control, with a novel omega-3 fatty acid drug.
2. Byetta Tops as Add-On Diabetes Therapy. The GLP-1 receptor agonist exenatide (Byetta) was superior to glimepiride (Amaryl) as an add-on therapy once patients ...
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Now more than ever, the growing consensus among many is that doctors should avoid seeing pharmaceutical sales representatives, otherwise known as drug reps. A position statement from the AAMC, the head organization of all US medical schools and residency programs, recommends that all academic health centers avoid having drug reps on their campuses, hospital and clinics. Many medical institutions including the VA and Kaiser have also enacted similar policies banning ...
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Propaganda and non-truths abound all around the Internet saying that mobile health apps are everything from a threat to Big Pharma to a way to save billions of dollars in healthcare costs. There may be a future for mobile apps but a lot of work is yet to be done.
Last year I led some market research into mobile apps across all demographic segments and several disease conditions. While we did ...
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Test your medicine knowledge with the MKSAP challenge, in partnership with the American College of Physicians.
A 22-year-old man comes for a routine evaluation. He has a history of type 1 diabetes mellitus and began taking insulin glargine and insulin lispro 8 years ago. Two days ago, he participated in a marathon race.
On physical examination, temperature is 36.4 °C (97.5 °F), ...
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Year: 1979
Setting: George Washington University Hospital
Position: Intern
In sharing my global health background, I would be remiss if I did not talk about some of my American experience. After all, Washington, D.C., is remote from Palo Alto and Paris! I am in my late 20s and an intern at George Washington University as an exchange student from Brazil. My mentor, Stanley Talpers, MD, has organized a rotating program for the interns, ...
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Physicians and other healthcare professionals often tell their patients with type 2 diabetes to avoid eating too much starch and sugar in order to keep their blood sugar from going too high.
But if the patients follow that advice, they'll end up eating more fat and more protein, which could increase their risk of cardiovascular and renal complications.
Worse yet, a high fat intake may actually keep the patients diabetic.
It ...
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Medicaid patients with diabetes and hypertension need better outcomes. To achieve better outcomes, physicians need more consistent information on their patients’ real health behaviors. State legislators are pressing to get healthcare costs under control, while Medicaid administrators need to invest thinly stretched resources simultaneously in direct care and broad public health programs that will keep hospital readmissions down. As director of a network of managed primary care systems (Northern Piedmont Community Care) ...
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Test your medicine knowledge with the MKSAP challenge, in partnership with the American College of Physicians.
A 78-year-old woman who resides in a nursing home is seen for management of her diabetes mellitus. The patient's blood glucose log shows levels ranging between 40 and 400 mg/dL (2.2 and 22.2 mmol/L). She otherwise feels well. She has been on insulin for more ...
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