Yoga for asthma harmless but not helpful
Study suggests yoga does not offer benefits for patients diagnosed with asthma and should be considered a supplemental alternative intervention.
Diagnosis & Disease Information
Primary care after PCa
PCPs should encourage physical activity, smoking cessation, and a healthy diet for PCa survivors.
Make a permanent mark on your patient’s asthma treatment
I have my patients bring all of their pumps to me and will write on the plastic canister with a Sharpie permanent marker.
Could exposure to herpes zoster actually help clinicians?
Herpes zoster represents the emergence of latent virus, specifically the varicella virus.
Nuts may lower heart, diabetes risks
Patients who ate nuts regularly had reduced diabetes, fatal and nonfatal ischemic heart disease.
Steroids no use in spinal stenosis
Epidural injections of anesthetic without corticosteroids do not relieve the pain associated lumbar spinal stenosis.
What does persistent polyclonal B-cell lymphocytosis look like?
Middle-aged females who smoke are the most common demographic group diagnosed with persistent polyclonal B-cell lymphocytosis.
Easing a female patient into her first pelvic exam
Always, always hand the speculum to a woman who has come in for her first pelvic exam, and allow her to check it out.
Vitamin D may lower hypertension risk
Every 10% increase in serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentration was associated with a 0.24-mmHg decrease in diastolic blood pressure.
Antidepressants and suicide risk
Over the last two decades, the prescribing of tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) has decreased due to their unfavorable side-effect profile.
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