Decreasing thyroid-stimulating hormone

Besides hyperthyroidis, what can cause thyroid-stimulating hormone levels to drop?
 

Of what value are folate levels?

All my colleagues and I continue to check patients' vitamin B12 and folate levels daily. Is this no longer the recommended standard?
 

New regimen for refractory H. pylori

Since being diagnosed with Helicobacter pylori infection and chronic active gastritis (by esophagogastroduodenoscopy) in 2006, a 58-year-old man has undergone three different treatment regimens without success.
 

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FDA mandates smoking-cessation warnings

FDA mandates smoking-cessation warnings

By Traci Dantoni July 02, 2009

The FDA is now requiring the popular smoking-cessation drugs varenicline and bupropion to carry the highest safety warning amid reports of suicide and depression.
 
Cognitive therapy effective for long-term insomnia

Cognitive therapy effective for long-term insomnia

By Traci Dantoni July 02, 2009

Patients with chronic insomnia may see symptoms improve in as few as five sessions, according to new research.
 
Laughter is (still) the best medicine

Laughter is (still) the best medicine

Christina M. Surawicz, MD July 01, 2009

Over the years I have accepted humor as a coping mechanism for physicians. Humor has helped me to relieve tension, defuse tense situations, counteract grim aspects of medicine, and alleviate pain.
 
Statins may prevent PSA relapse

Statins may prevent PSA relapse

July 01, 2009

After radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer, men who took the medications had a 30% lower risk.
 
Triglycerides linked to diabetic neuropathy and amputations

Triglycerides linked to diabetic neuropathy and amputations

June 24, 2009

Serum triglyceride levels may allow clinicians to predict which patients with type 2 diabetes will develop neuropathy, while fenofibrate therapy can reduce the risk of diabetes-related amputations by more than a third.
 


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