Internal Medicine Alert – August 30, 2005
August 30, 2005
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A New Treatment for Diabetes?
Patients who had both diabetes and sleep apnea had improved HbA1c and postprandial glucose when they used Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) for more than 4 hours a night. -
Which Patients with Back Pain Will Return to Work?
Seven pieces of information can identify those patients most likely to successfully rehabilitate back pain. -
Stopping Postmenopausal Hormones: What Women Experience
When the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) study was stopped, 9351 postmenopausal women stopped taking combined estrogen and progestin or placebo. The WHI investigators followed up on these women with a survey at 8 to 12 months after stopping the pills. More that half of the women taking the hormones developed vasomotor symptoms and, in about 21%, these symptoms were moderate to severe. -
Breast Cancer in Young Women: The M.D. Anderson Experience
Breast cancer in young women is uncommon, but when it does occur, it is thought to be very aggressive. In this large series of young (< 35 years old) patients from a single institution seen over a 13-year period, high tumor grade, hormone receptor negativity, and family history of ovarian cancer turned out to be significant negative prognostic indicators. -
Pharmacology Update: Insulin Detemir Injection (Levemir®)
The FDA has approved a new long-acting insulin analog produced by DNA technology. -
Clinical Briefs
Chocolate enthusiasts, take heart! Evidence that dark chocolate benefits more than just the palate is presented in this study from Greece.