Category: Medicine
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Celecoxib and Cardiovascular Risk
Finally, I’m getting around to reviewing the two articles I’ve been threatening to review for the last week! I’m referring to two articles published in the New England Journal of Medicine last week. Both are about reducing the risk of colon polyps by using celecoxib (Celebrex). The fact is that these articles are interesting not…
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Celecoxib and Cardiovascular Risk
Finally, I’m getting around to reviewing the two articles I’ve been threatening to review for the last week!I’m referring to two articles published in the New England Journal of Medicine last week. Both are about reducing the risk of colon polyps by using celecoxib (Celebrex). The fact is that these articles are interesting not because…
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I know, I’m behind!
The New England Journal is out again today and I still haven’t reviewed the articles I meant to do last week. I’m sorry, but they’re just going to have to wait until this weekend; I still need to sit down and go through them. But I’ve got another one to add to the list from…
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Making Mistakes
I want to dive into a new area today and actually talk about some things I’ve seen in the clinic and in the hospital to try to illustrate some ‘greater truths’. I do this with a little trepidation as I’m a staunch believer in patients’ rights to privacy and talking about an individual patient’s problems…
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Plan B is Here.
It’s official. Plan B is soon to be available over the counter. Actually, it’s to be kept behind the counter and only available to women over 18 without a prescription, but this is a success none-the-less. I personally think it should be available to all women, all the time, but I can live with this.…
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Alendronate for GC-induced bone loss
There are two articles in last week’s New England Journal of Medicine worth looking at (login required for access): one is a randomized trial of alendronate in glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis, and the other is a review article of Paget’s disease of bone. I want to review the first of these here (N Engl J Med 2006;355(7):675-684).…
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Medicine for Dummies – An Introduction
I use technorati to keep a watchlist on the terms ‘arthritis’ and ‘rheumatology’. After all, this is my specialty, right? I should try to keep track of what’s being written our there! My initial thought was that I would pick up other doctors or researches talking about things in joint land, but I was disabused…
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Good News from Sam Brownback!
Good news! A member of the party that is dedicated to protecting the rights of state governments is once again showing his dedication to the cause! This time he is trying to make sure that states can prosecute a doctor for helping someone commit suicide when that person is terminally ill! After all, if a…
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Follow up to ‘Chronic Diseases’
Tara Smith took note of this New York Times article too, but she’s a much better writer than I am. You should check out her post. She also links to another nice analysis by Future Pundit. By the way, she’s an epidemiologist and lives in Iowa. That’s at least 2 points in her favor right…
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August A&R Roundup
This is my personal, highly selective take on articles in the August Arthritis & Rheumatism. Login is required if you want to read the actual articles – I frequently have trouble loggin on to their site anyway. There is an article about TNF antagonists in pregnancy with an accompanying editorial by Jane Salmon & Deborah…
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