The March 21 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine has a pair of excellent articles that highlight the unresolved questions in routinely testing men for prostate cancer: Viewpoint: Limiting Prostate Cancer Screening and Viewpoint: Expanding Prostate Cancer Screening. (The abstracts of the article are available by clic...
Electronic Prescribing Improves Care
SureScripts is a company that allows physicians' offices to send prescriptions to pharmacies electronically. It works with most electronic medical records (EMR) systems, including the EMR our office uses.
A recent article on eWeek.com reviewed SureScrips' efforts to increase the number of physicians that are sending prescriptions electronically. There are many benefits of avoiding handwritten prescriptions. Legibi...
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Blood Filtration More Effective than Diuretics for Hospital Treatment of Heart Failure
Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a very common condition in which the heart becomes increasingly ineffective at pumping blood and fluid backs up and leaks into the lungs and other tissues. It is a very frequent cause of hospitalization. Diuretics (medications that remove fluid from the body by increasing the volume of urine produced) have been the mainstay of acute treatment, and in the last few years other medications such as beta blockers, ACE inhibitors, and aldosterone blockers have been sh...
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Coenzyme Q10 — Some Good News about a Supplement
The recent clinical studies about dietary supplements have been largely negative, important reminders that most supplements can't deliver on the expectations that patients have for them.
Given this bleak background, I wanted to share with you some good news about Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10). The Medical Letter, one of the best unbiased sources of reviews of medical studies, reviewed CoQ10 in last week's issue. Since the article is available on...
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