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RheumShorts: New Knees, Lupus Med Switches (CME/CE)

MedPage Today Primary Care — Thu, 15 May 2014 21:38:50 +0000

(MedPage Today) — The news in rheumatology this week included reports on knee replacements in the Dominican Republic, outcomes with scleroderma overlap disease, and reasons for switching maintenance therapy in lupus.

CDC Issues Guide for Family Planning

MedPage Today Primary Care — Thu, 15 May 2014 21:14:46 +0000

(MedPage Today) — The CDC has issued an in-depth report to help healthcare providers and educators design comprehensive family planning services to fit the needs of the public.

HypeWatch: CDC Not Swapping Condoms for Pills

MedPage Today Primary Care — Thu, 15 May 2014 21:07:20 +0000

(MedPage Today) — The notion of using anti-HIV drugs, specifically Truvada, to prevent people from catching the virus — so-called pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP — has been around and under study for several years. Do new guidelines signal a change in prevention policy?

Stroke Rounds: Migraine Tied to Brain Injury

MedPage Today Primary Care — Thu, 15 May 2014 20:00:00 +0000

(MedPage Today) — Migraine might be a risk factor for subclinical brain infarction in older individuals, a cross-sectional study showed.

Excess Weight Weighs Heavily in Early RA Tx

MedPage Today Primary Care — Thu, 15 May 2014 19:54:46 +0000

(MedPage Today) — Patients diagnosed with early rheumatoid arthritis who were overweight were less likely to achieve rapid disease control, Swedish researchers found.

MERS Watch: Netherlands Reports Two Cases

MedPage Today Primary Care — Thu, 15 May 2014 19:42:27 +0000

(MedPage Today) — The Netherlands is reporting two cases of the Middle East coronavirus (MERS) while hard-hit Saudi Arabia is reporting three new cases and three deaths. To keep track of the coronavirus outbreak in the Middle East, MedPage Today?s daily MERS Watch will update you as the numbers change.

FDA Slashes Starting Dose for Lunesta

MedPage Today Primary Care — Thu, 15 May 2014 19:10:53 +0000

(MedPage Today) — SILVER SPRING, Md. — Patients starting on the sleep drug eszopiclone (Lunesta) should take no more than 1 mg at bedtime — one-third the current label-recommended dose — because of the risk of next-day impairment, the FDA said Thursday.

Higher Doses of ‘Abortion Pill’ Safe in Cushing’s?

MedPage Today Primary Care — Thu, 15 May 2014 18:49:00 +0000

LAS VEGAS (MedPage Today) — Higher doses of mifepristone for Cushing’s disease (Korlym) — better known as RU-486 — weren’t associated with increases in serious adverse events, researchers reported here.

‘Thyroid’ Issues May Really Be Hypothalamic

MedPage Today Primary Care — Thu, 15 May 2014 16:45:20 +0000

LAS VEGAS (MedPage Today) — Obese patients who continue to have “thyroid symptoms” even when their levels are normalized may have a hypothalamic dysfunction, researchers reported here.

ATS: New Leader to Push for Clinicians in Research

MedPage Today Primary Care — Thu, 15 May 2014 16:01:35 +0000

SAN DIEGO (MedPage Today) — More physician scientists — that?s the call Thomas Ferkol, MD, incoming president of the American Thoracic Society (ATS), will sound this year.