Smoking cessation programs have been recognized to benefit from standard clinician intervention and telephone counseling, but what are the comparative benefits of these strategies? Researchers examining the relative benefits of telephone care and clinician intervention found that telephone care leads to higher smoking cessation rates.
ABSTRACT: The number of medical therapies for patients with erectile dysfunction (ED) has increased in recent years because of our expanded understanding of the physiologic and neurologic causes of ED. Oral agents range from testosterone to antidepressants to phosphodiesterase inhibitors. Nitroglycerin and minoxidil have shown some effectiveness as topical agents. Alprostadil, which can be applied intraurethrally, is also effective as intracavernosal injection therapy. Prostaglandin E1 and papaverine are effective as intracavernosal injection agents. Some studies have shown that combined use of intracavernosal injection and oral therapy produces satisfactory erections.
ABSTRACT: The number of medical therapies for patients with erectile dysfunction (ED) has increased in recent years because of our expanded understanding of the physiologic and neurologic causes of ED. Oral agents range from testosterone to antidepressants to phosphodiesterase inhibitors. Nitroglycerin and minoxidil have shown some effectiveness as topical agents. Alprostadil, which can be applied intraurethrally, is also effective as intracavernosal injection therapy. Prostaglandin E1 and papaverine are effective as intracavernosal injection agents. Some studies have shown that combined use of intracavernosal injection and oral therapy produces satisfactory erections.
A 16-year-old boy complains of right lower leg pain that began after his first week at a summer basketball conditioning camp. Before he left for the camp, he was jogging off and on, averaging a few miles a week.
Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most common cancer in the United States; more than 1 million cases are reported annually. BCC is a carcinoma of aging and usually manifests in areas of chronic sun exposure.
With the advent of minimally invasive therapies and new anesthesia techniques, chronic venous disease can now be treated cost-effectively in an office setting.
These hyperkeratotic, hemorrhagic, depressed ulcerations developed on the feet of a 45-year-old white man with a 4-year history of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).
Keratoacanthoma (KA) is a keratinocytic neoplasm that some experts believe to be a variant of squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). KA is characterized by rapid growth over a few weeks to months followed by spontaneous resolution over 4 to 6 months.
For several weeks, a 49-year-old woman had had large, tense, persistent blisters on the arms and trunk. She also had annular papulovesicular and urticarial lesions in these areas.
A better way for elderly patients to insert eyedrops in order to prevent positional vertigo.
A tip to help make rectal examinations easier on your patients.
A quick way to dose amoxicillin using pounds instead of kilograms.
A 12-year-old otherwise healthy boy was referred to a sports medicine clinic for back pain of 7 months' duration. The pain, which originated to the right of his thoracic spine, was associated with shooting hockey pucks. Results of his physical examination were normal.
CHICAGO -- For a clinician to get a healthy patient to name a health-care surrogate, all the doctor has to do is ask, according to a study here.
HAVANA -- President Fidel Castro, 79, one of the last of the Communist dictators, underwent intestinal surgery tonight, according to Havana television in a statement signed by the Cuban leader himself. There were no other immediate medical details. Castro's brother, Raul, was put in interim charge. Fidel Castro, whose 80th birthday is Aug. 13, took over in 1959.
MONTREAL -- The first puff on a cigarette may be enough to trigger the start of nicotine dependence, which grows stronger with every additional puff, according to investigators here.
ROCKVILLE, Md. -- The FDA has suddenly signaled that it is ready, after three years, to move forward on limited over-the-counter status for Plan B, an emergency contraceptive. The move came the day before Andrew von Eschenbach, M.D., the acting FDA commissioner, is scheduled to testify before a Senate committee on his nomination as permanent FDA chief.
BALTIMORE -- A lot of family physicians and internists need to brush up on the signs and symptoms of chronic kidney disease, according to investigators here.
SAN DIEGO -- Skin cancer -- long thought to be of major concern primarily to Caucasians -- is a danger to those with darker skin as well, investigators reported here.
BOSTON -- Although thrombotic events among living liver donors are rare, the there is no agreement among transplant centers about the best approach to preventing them.
