Cooking technique for dialysis patients
Patients on dialysis much watch their potassium intake from vegetables like potatoes. Offer this cooking tip.
Diagnosis & Disease Information
Selenium beneficial for patients with Graves’ orbitopathy
Patients with Graves’ disease who took selenium demonstrated improvements in overall quality of life and opthalmologic assessment.
Chantix linked to cardiovascular, psychiatric adverse events
The FDA recently announced a labeling change for the smoking-cessation aid varenicline (Chantix) concerning cardiovascular risks.
Breathing tips for patients with COPD
A nurse uses two easy-to-remember catch phrases to encourage pursed-lip breathing among patients with COPD.
Adding phentermine and topiramate to lifestyle changes may aid weight loss
Phentermine was used for the medical management of weight loss in combination with fenfluramine or dexfenfluramine until side effects related to cardiac valvular disease and pulmonary hypertension were linked to the fenfluramine/dexfenfluramine component. It is currently used as monotherapy or in combination with topiramate.
Oral treatment to prevent blood clots
Xarelto is indicated to prevent prophylaxis of deep vein thrombosis, which may lead to pulmonary embolism in patients undergoing knee- or hip-replacement surgery.
Adolescents need HPV shots early
Common reasons that parents give when declining human papillomavirus vaccine for their children are, “My teen is not sexually active,” or “Maybe we’ll wait until he/she is a bit older.” This thinking negates the vaccine’s preventive purpose.
Surgical clearance guidelines
Many dentists, optometrists and other specialty providers are sending adult patients to our primary-care clinic for surgical or procedural clearance. Are there standards of practice for such patients?
A nurse oversteps clinic’s privacy policy
An eager, young clinician learns the hard way that discretion is the first rule of law in medicine.
Which radiologic test to use for abdominal pain
How do I know which radiologic tests to choose when evaluating abdominal pain?
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