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Back pain is a ubiquitous complaint in the primary care setting. The evaluation and management of these patients varies based on several risk factors for serious disease called the red flags of back pain.
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For many years, chiropractic medicine often has been viewed with skepticism and even ridicule by organized medicine. Yet, we have all had patients who praise their chiropractor for taking care of symptoms for which we have only pills and physical therapy to offer.
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Guidelines for prediabetes from The American College of Endocrinology; statins for the prevention of dementia? Possible help for women suffering from sexual side effects while on antidepressants; government incentives for electronic prescribing; FDA Actions.
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Baxter Bioscience has developed a whole-virus, two dose vaccine against avian flu; warning label now on antipsychotics regarding an increased risk of mortality in elderly patients treated for dementia-related psychosis; vitamin D for men with heart disease on horizon? A new oral anticoagulant may soon be available for prevention of thrombotic complications of hip or knee surgery; FDA Actions
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Euthyroid sick syndrome is a reversible abnormality of thyroid function tests in the presence of an acute or chronic nonthyroidal illness (NTI) or an altered physiologic state such as starvation.
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Shingles vaccine added to CDC list of vaccines for adults 60 and older; CDC recommends Tdap for postpartum women; new study suggests sequential therapy with antibiotics for H. pylori may be more effective than standard therapy; FDA Actions.
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The prevalence [of obesity] in both adults and children is reaching epidemic proportions and has led to a prediction by CDC that the life expectancy in this country would start declining in the next 20 years. In fact, according to CDC, it has already fallen in a couple of states as reported recently in the news media.
