Preventive Medicine

AUA Clarifies Position on Prostate Cancer Screening

November 10, 2009

Responding to recent news reports disparaging prostate cancer testing, the American Urological Association clarified its recommendations for this testing.
 

Pomegranate juice may help prostate cancer patients

August 28, 2009

Pomegranate juice may help slow progression of prostate cancer in men who experience rising PSA levels following radical prostatectomy or radiotherapy, data suggest.
 

Guidelines: How to treat resistant hypertension

By Carl Sherman May 21, 2009

In its first Scientific Statement to focus on this issue, the American Heart Association stresses the need for evaluation that spreads a broad net to identify contributing and secondary causes and treatment options that go beyond the usual antihypertensives.
 

Flu shot creates opportunity for colorectal screening

March 18, 2009

If one group of practitioners has its way, clinicians may find themselves handing out colorectal cancer screening kits along with immunizations next flu season.
 

Positive spin pushes cancer screenings

February 13, 2009

If you want to effectively encourage African American patients to be screened for colon cancer, accentuate the positive. According to new research, emphasizing the risks of late detection can actually make these patients less likely to have the test.
 

Vitamin D prophylaxis for osteoporosis?

Question asked bu Luan Q. Pho, MD, Allen, Tex., and answered by Jack Waxman, MD January 23, 2009

The role of vitamin D in osteoporosis
 

Elevated PSA with a negative biopsy

Question asked by Jack W. Spitzberg, MD, Dallas, and answered by David T. Noyes, MD January 22, 2009

How to proceed when a patient's PSA is >4 ng/mL and the biopsy is negative
 

Colonoscopy less useful in right-side cancer

By Delicia Yard December 17, 2008

A large Canadian study has found that complete colonoscopy is strongly associated with fewer deaths from colorectal cancer that develops on the left side, but the same can't be said when the cancer is located on the right.
 

When a doctor snubs PSA screening

By Ann W. Latner, JD November 17, 2008

Must physicians with doubts about the test's usefulness allow fear of liability to override their clinical judgment?
 

5 nutritional deficiencies and how to correct them

By Steven Masley, MD November 17, 2008

Patients may not be getting all the nutrients they need. You can help them eat their way to better health.
 

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