Archive for July 12th, 2011
Could alternative medicine practitioners take the lead in health policy?
Posted by: admin on: July 12, 2011
Recently, a medical student attended a conference on integrative medicine. It was a conference a lot: about Chinese therapies used for cancer, about osteopathic manipulation, and about the growing community of doctors that respect the value of complimentary medicine practices and are working to integrate them into their general practice. She left with a sense […]
Screening and Risk Assessment for Osteoporosis in Postmenopausal Women
Posted by: admin on: July 12, 2011
A direct comparison of the recommendations presented in the above guidelines for screening and risk assessment for osteoporosis in postmenopausal women is provided in the tables below. Areas of Agreement Risk Assessment All of the groups recommend an assessment for risk factors associated with osteoporosis and osteoporotic fracture. All adult patients ≥ age 50 (American […]
Venlafaxine Becomes First-Line PTSD Therapy in Latest VA Guidelines
Posted by: admin on: July 12, 2011
The most recent set of treatment guidelines for posttraumatic stress disorder also are the first ever to boost venlafaxine to first-line status as “strongly recommended” alongside the well-established selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. Another milestone in the Veterans Affairs/Department of Defense PTSD treatment guidelines released in late 2010 is that mirtazapine has risen in status to […]
Updated Clinical practice guideline for managing febrile neutropenia in cancer patients.
Posted by: admin on: July 12, 2011
This guideline is intended for the use of antimicrobial agents in managing patients with cancer who experience chemotherapy-induced fever and neutropenia. Due to the previous iteration of this guideline in 2002, Department of Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska have a developed a clearer definition of which populations of patients with cancer may […]
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