Archive for July 2011
Why doctors should reconsider ordering a CRP to screen patients for heart disease
Posted by: admin on: July 21, 2011
The CRP, or C-reactive protein, is a test that many doctors use to screen for heart disease. Studies have associated an elevated level of CRP with an increased risk of coronary artery disease. But there is little data showing that reducing the CRP level saves lives. That hasn’t stopped both doctors and patients from inappropriately […]
Many doctors order tests rather than do a history and physical
Posted by: admin on: July 20, 2011
Take a good history, do a good exam. Rather than doing a careful history and physical, many physicians resort to order expensive tests based on a complaint rather than a full history. Physicians almost unanimously believe that other physicians do this and some will admit that they are guilty also. Our predecessors were able to […]
Light Therapy May Aid Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Posted by: admin on: July 20, 2011
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Transcranial red/near-infrared LED may be an inexpensive, noninvasive treatment, suitable for home treatments, to improve cognitive function in TBI patients, as well as to reduce symptom severity in post-traumatic stress disorder In patients with closed-head, mild TBI, CT or MRI scans usually show no evidence of focal lesions, but more often, diffuse axonal injury in […]
Smart patients need to establish a relationship with a primary care doctor
Posted by: admin on: July 20, 2011
Good primary care physicians are becoming harder and harder to find. A year from now we’ll find it almost impossible to find primary care doctors who are willing to take on new patients – at least any primary care doctor worth seeing won’t be doing so. Smart patients and their advocates know that today is […]
Computed Tomography Enterography (CTE) improves Crohn’s disease management
Posted by: admin on: July 19, 2011
The use of computed tomography enterography (CTE) imaging to investigate patients with suspected or established Crohn’s disease would result in changes being made to around half of management plans. Edward Loftus and colleagues say that the management plan changes observed during the study, namely the exclusion of active CD and medication alterations, arose from an […]
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