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Comparison of Three Insulin RegimensFree

Adding once-daily basal insulin to oral therapy conferred some advantages over alternate regimens.

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Glucose Control in Type 2 Diabetes: Review of Cardiovascular Outcomes

Intensive control led to fewer nonfatal MIs but no change in 5-year all-cause mortality.

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Cruise Ship Restrooms: An Exposé

Some are very clean, but most are not . . . until an outbreak of gastroenteritis occurs.

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Multifocal Glasses and Risk for Falling

Ground-level obstacles can be precarious with these glasses.

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Long-Acting Bronchodilators With or Without Inhaled Steroids in COPD

Risk for moderate COPD exacerbations, but not severe exacerbations, was lower with combined therapy.

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Darbepoetin {alpha} in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes, Chronic Kidney Disease, and Anemia

The drug provides little benefit and might cause harm.

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Supplemental and Active Forms of Vitamin D Prevent Falls Among Elders

Daily doses of vitamin D >700 IU were associated with significantly fewer falls.

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Common Mental Disorder Elevates Risk for Subsequent Obesity

However, obesity is not associated with elevated risk for later mental disorder.

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Ambulatory Care: Where Are the Young Men?

Young men have the lowest use of ambulatory and preventive care.

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Screening for Prostate and Breast Cancers

Have the benefits been overstated?

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Intimate Partner Violence Linked to Various Health Conditions

Women who reported IPV had significantly higher rates of musculoskeletal, psychosocial, and reproductive diagnoses.

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H1N1 Rapid Tests: Poor SensitivityFree

Rapid tests for seasonal influenza generally have relatively low sensitivity; their sensitivity for detecting the 2009 H1N1 virus seems even worse.

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Mastectomy Instead of BCS: What Is the Role of the Surgeon's Recommendation?Free

Reasons for mastectomy are related to surgeon's recommendation, patient's preference, and contraindications to breast-conserving surgery.

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A Wait-and-See Approach to Management of Otitis Media in Children: Readers Weigh InFree

The preponderance of evidence opposes the routine use of antibiotics, although some readers disagree.

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Does Your Patient Really Need Another Chest CT?

Repeat chest CT angiography scans have a low yield for diagnosing pulmonary embolism.

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Journal Watch General Medicine summarizes important medical journal articles about a wide variety of medical subjects including arthritis,asthma, diabetes, genetics, heart disease, hypertension, obesity, palliative care, pneumonia, and thrombocytopenia.

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General Medicine Editor-in-Chief

Allan S. Brett, MD
Allan S. Brett, MD
Professor of Medicine and Director, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of South Carolina School of Medicine

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