Search results for "Veterans' health"
Musical ACP members juggle conference with performance
ACP seeks workshop topics, and chapter awardees are honored.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2008/04/twenty.htm
1 Apr 2008
New tool makes it easy to add crucial family history to EHRs
Electronic medical records are slowly pushing out the family history, eliminating valuable diagnostic information. But a free tool offers an easy way to restore important details to a clinician's files.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2009/05/genomics.htm
1 May 2009
Nurses tapped for more training, bigger role in health care
Nurses tapped for more training, bigger role in health careUpdated consensus statement issued for hypertension management in blacks
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2010/10/12/1.htm
12 Oct 2010
Starting cART earlier may increase AIDS-free survival time
Starting combined antiretroviral therapy in HIV patients earlier may stave off symptoms, prevent HIV transmission and prolong AIDS-free survival without affecting mortality, according to an observational study that used pooled data from 12 large cohorts.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2011/04/19/2.htm
19 Apr 2011
Review examines optimal primary care for combat veterans
A new review by clinicians from the Veterans Administration outlines conditions common to returning combat veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and provides management guidelines for optimal primary care.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2012/06/19/6.htm
19 Jun 2012
Sulfonylureas associated with higher CV risk than metformin
As initial monotherapy for type 2 diabetes, sulfonylureas were associated with more cardiovascular events and deaths than metformin, a new study found.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2012/11/06/1.htm
6 Nov 2012
Patients who achieve low cholesterol levels still get lipid tests
One-third of patients with coronary heart disease who had low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels less than 100 mg/dL underwent repeat lipid testing anyway, a study found.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2013/07/09/1.htm
9 Jul 2013
Targeting glycemic control in the elderly
The challenge in diabetes treatment used to be getting patients' blood glucose low enough. But recent evidence has shown that, at least for elderly diabetics, hypoglycemia may be as much or more of a problem as hyperglycemia.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2014/10/hypoglycemia.htm
1 Oct 2014
Hypertension often undertreated after hospitalization for stroke
Patients who were hospitalized for an ischemic stroke often had a systolic blood pressure (SBP) above 160 mm Hg at discharge and at subsequent outpatient visits, a recent study found.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2015/01/13/7.htm
13 Jan 2015
Calculating risk for cholesterol drugs
Differing guidelines and a new class of drugs may cause uncertainty on the part of patients and practitioners.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2015/11/cholesterol.htm
1 Nov 2015