December, 2008:

• If your patient hears sticks, look for ticks
• More on antibiotics and oral contraceptives
• Alpha blockers for hyperhidrosis
• CRP vs. LDL as a stroke predictor
• Arthroscopic surgery may not be beneficial for moderate-to-severe knee osteoarthritis
• Snoring deemed risk factor for atherosclerosis
• Is Bowen testing good for Lyme disease?
• HRT after bilateral mastectomy
• Preventing rabies
• Physician refuses to wait on hold
• Smoking propels aneurysm risk in women
• Glaucoma therapy in a blind patient
• Shortness of breath on a statin
• Standard of care for MRSA infections
• Bluish-purple facial papules
• New AAP recommendations for childhood lipid screening
• Kids should now get double the vitamin D
• Advocating what works for diabetes
• Noncompetes are nonproductive
• Low-protein diets questioned
• Inhaled anticholinergics associated with increased risk of mortality and MI in COPD patients
• A rash for the 21st century
• Methylnaltrexone may relieve opioid-induced constipation
• Aspirin and first heart attacks in diabetics
• Fibrate used in combination with statin approved
• Difficult-to-treat chronic pain syndromes
• Missed tick bite leads to tragedy
• Annular purpuric rash on the lower extremities
• Recombinant factor VIII for hemophilia A
• Top 10 health stories of 2008
• Cerumen impaction
• Flaxseed
• Limit colorectal screening in the elderly?
• Kidney marker warns of heart disease risk
• Help for a migraine sufferer
• Stopping meds post atrial fibrillation flutter
• Rising home BP measurements in a hypertensive woman
• Statins protect against CVD, not renal disease
• Combo therapy for pneumonia?
• Vitamin supplementation with diabetes
• SAMe
• A gastric bypass patient with recurrent bronchitis
• Anemia in a patient previously treated for renal insufficiency
• Fabric softener for louse nits
• When the taste buds start to go
• Difficult-to-assess blood findings
• SUSPECTED SPOUSAL ABUSE
• Cholesterol goals in diabetes patients
• Treating polycystic ovary syndrome
• RECALCITRANT PLANTAR WARTS
• Rapidly enlarging conical lesion on the plantar surface
• Routine HIV testing encouraged, ignored