Moving beyond pink ribbons
Encourage actionable breast cancer awareness this month with breast self-exams, mammograms and healthy living.
Preventive Medicine
Screening for functional deficits in older adults
Assessment of functional impairments in an aging population is one of the most daunting challenges facing primary-care clinicians.
Talking through the mammogram furor
Clinicians need to better screen their patients and educate them about when best to begin obtaining routine mammograms.
The case of the elusive breast lump
The patient said there was a mass in her breast, but the surgeon could not feel it. When the lump was found, it was too late.
Understanding colon cancer screening tests
There are four established options and two new ones — DNA markers and virtual colonoscopies. Here are the pluses and minuses of each.
Filing error aids spread of cancer
A woman’s mammogram results were mistakenly labeled “normal,” leading to a fatal delay in diagnosis.
Disinfecting fungus-contaminated shoes
Is spraying with diluted bleach solution or placing the shoes in moth balls effective?
Both sides of the fever coin
Is there any validity to statements by patients that their basal temperature is always low and…
Mediterranean diet and low-carb diet more effective than low-fat diet
Mean weight loss at two years was 9.7 lb with the Mediterranean diet vs. 10.3 lb with the low-carbohydrate diet vs. 6.4 lb with the low-fat diet.
When to start low HDL treatment
What is the current recommendation for treating isolated low HDL levels? My patient is a 37-year-old white nonsmoker, whose original total cholesterol was…
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