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Recognize and react is theme underlying latest stroke studies
https://acpinternist.org/archives/2008/05/three.htm. Conference coverage focuses on studies about abdominal obesity, symptoms and the importance of dialing 911 first. ... That was the upshot of a study (see “,” below) at the American Stroke
May 2008
Potential changes questioned for advanced cardiac life support
The Advanced Cardiac Life Support guidelines are due out in 2015 and may pose some shocking changes: faster beats-per-minute chest compressions, a de-emphasis on hypothermia, and a new length of time for continuing cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
April 2014
Looking at LARCs in primary care
Our Conference Coverage this issue is from the American Medical Women's Association's 107th Annual Meeting, held virtually at the end of March.
May 2022
Practice management experts urge docs to use the Web
Susan R. Miller, RN, suspected that business was being lost during the office's peak calling periods. So she did a study.
February 2008
Internists play important role in diagnosing, treating MS
https://acpinternist.org/archives/2009/09/editors.htm. A round-up of this issue's articles on multiple sclerosis; conference coverage from Digestive Disease Week; our latest columns.
September 2009
It's all about the history in diagnosing fever of unknown origin
There are 4 types of fever of unknown origin, and distinguishing among them starts with the first step: Look for clues from the history and other presenting symptoms.
June 2014
Corticosteroids have fallen out of favor for COPD care
A single study has gone a long way toward changing clinical practices.
January 2017
Digging into the causes and fixes of resistant hypertension
An enduring challenge is figuring out why patients appear to have resistant hypertension and how to cure them of it.
September 2016
CDC seeks more testing for ‘huge uptick’ in HCV incidence
Screening everyone born from 1945 to 1965 at least once would be able to diagnose 75% of people who are living with chronic hepatitis C, according to one expert at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
January 2016
Guiding clinicians through GI diagnoses
ACP Internist wraps up highlights of Digestive Disease Week, including dyspepsia, weight loss and incontinence, as well as the latest about the risks of proton-pump inhibitors and antithrombotics.
September 2009