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Study Finds Chinese Food Good For Your Heart (www.medicalnewstoday.com)
Once again we are finding that traditional Chinese medicine is just as affective in this day and time as it was back during the Tang Dynasty. Even then, Chinese red yeast rice was known to 'remove blockages' and aid in digestion. What is even more exciting in this study,...
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Most Doctors Aren’t Using Electronic Health Records (www.nytimes.com)
Third party payers benefit the most from EHRs because it makes charts easier to audit The cost of implementing an EHR is excessive for a small practice of 2-5 physicians.
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Higher Risk of Death and Stroke in Patients Given Beta Blockers After Non-Cardiac Surgery (POISE Trial) (pharmalive.com)
1. Beta Blockers are now implicated in negative outcomes for some non-cardiac surgical patients. 2. The POISE Trial is probably teaching us that vasoactive medications need to be utilized judiciously, given to many, but not all surgical patients. 3. The POISE Trial results conflict...
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FDA's Chief Scientist Asks Science Board Subcommittee To Review Research On Bisphenol-A (www.medicalnewstoday.com)
Parents never gave plastic a second thought that these seemingly safe vessels are capable of destroying, altering, and risking our children's internal building blocks of life. Babies used to be nursed with glass bottles that were capable of being sterilized,...
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FDA's Chief Scientist Asks Science Board Subcommittee To Review Research On Bisphenol-A (www.medicalnewstoday.com)
Babies used to be nursed with glass bottles that were capable of being sterilized, but along with disposable diapers, wet wipes, and gourmet babyfood, the plastic industry presides to contain our infants nutritional and bathing essentials. Parents never gave plastic a second...
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AstraZeneca Submits an sNDA for SYMBICORT(R) for the Treatment of Asthma in Children as Young as Age Six (www.pipelinereview.com)
Good drug with rapid onset. ? if will create some confusion with adult dosing
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New data show Tekturna HCT® is twice as effective at reducing blood pressure than the diuretic HCT alone (www.novartis.com)
The info that tekturna HCT works twice as well as HCTZ alone is not earth shattering. Of course it's better. That can be said of any HCT/medicine combination
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New data show Tekturna HCT® is twice as effective at reducing blood pressure than the diuretic HCT alone (www.novartis.com)
I am a heavy user of ARB's and Tekturna. This article does not really show anything of significance. Most practicing physicians have seen much better results and much better tolerability with ARB's than diuretics. I do not think this is going to change prescribing habits of anyone. ...
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Medtronic Says Thrombus Aspiration Before Stenting Betters Survival Rates Of Myocardial Infarction Patients (www.rttnews.com)
Mechanical thrombectomy of the coronary arteries has becoming increasingly more common with the advent of simpler aspiration catheters. Although its use in the setting of acute myocardial infarction is even more common, it is not routine. Randomized data indicating its effect on clinical...
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Higher Risk of Death and Stroke in Patients Given Beta Blockers After Non-Cardiac Surgery (POISE Trial) (pharmalive.com)
This is not a real life article. Physicians will titrate the dosage of beta blockers, not utilize a fixed dose. The AHA ACC guidelines still recommend beta blockers, but the guidelines do not specifiy a fixed dosage.