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Anticoagulation likely OK for stroke patients undergoing dental procedures
Stroke patients on blood thinners who undergo dental procedures can routinely continue aspirin or warfarin, according to level A recommendations issued by the American Academy of Neurology.
Daily sunscreen appears better than beta-carotene for preventing skin aging
Daily sunscreen use prevents skin aging better than discretionary use or beta-carotene supplementation, according to a new study.
MKSAP Quiz: fatigue and fever of 3 days' duration
A 52-year-old man is admitted to the hospital with fatigue and fever of 3 days' duration. He is a health care worker and has a bicuspid aortic valve. He takes no medications. In the hospital, his blood cultures become positive for gram-positive cocci and grow methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. What is the most appropriate management?
Long-acting beta-agonists and anticholinergics pose similar cardiovascular risks
Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) faced increased risk of a cardiovascular event after starting treatment with a long-acting bronchodilator, whether it was a beta-agonist or an anticholinergic, a new study found.
Aspirin may be noninferior to dalteparin for VTE prophylaxis following hip replacements
Aspirin therapy for 28 days may be a reasonable alternative to low-molecular-weight heparin for extended venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis among hip replacement patients who have already received low-molecular-weight heparin for 10 days, a study found.
Cognitive impairment better predictor of first stroke in the oldest old
Cognitive impairment appears to predict risk for first stroke in very elderly patients better than the Framingham stroke risk score, according to a recent study.
The next issue of ACP Internist is online
The next issue of ACP Internist is online and coming to your mailbox. June's issue wraps up coverage of Internal Medicine 2013.
Using personal health records for chronic care coordination
The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) is working on a project for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology about personal health records (PHRs), rural health and care coordination.
ACP issues high-value care recommendations for inpatient glucose management
Intensive insulin therapy (IIT) for inpatient glycemic control can result in more harm than benefit, ACP's Clinical Guidelines Committee recently reminded clinicians in a best practice advice paper.
ACP supports CDC's smoking cessation initiative, “Talk With Your Doctor”
The American College of Physicians and four other medical associations representing a total of more than 600,000 physicians are supporting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) initiative “Talk with Your Doctor,” a smoking cessation program that is part of the CDC's national tobacco education campaign, “Tips from Former Smokers.”
Who in your office speaks Templatish, Beancounterese, Complyian, or Rushian?
Yul Ejnes, MD, MACP, a past chair of ACP's Board of Regents, a practicing internist in Cranston, R.I., and a member of ACP Internist's editorial board, continues his monthly column at KevinMD.com about how and why English has become the second language of medical documentation.
Governance Committee seeks Regent candidates for 2014
The Governance Committee oversees the process for nominating and electing Masters and Fellows of the College to the Board of Regents (BOR) and is beginning the process of seeking Regents to join the Board in May 2014.
Put words in our mouth
ACP InternistWeekly wants readers to create captions for our new cartoon and help choose the winner. Pen the winning caption and win a $50 gift certificate good toward any ACP product, program or service.