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April 2013 Volume 30 No. 4

Guest Editorial

Urology: Engineered for the New Millennium

As I considered the myriad of advances made in the field of urology over the last 30 years, it became clear that the majority of these advances have been in technology. Major developments in instrumentation, in particular, have spawned the... More

Feature

Providing an Alternative Treatment Modality for Veterans: Establishing and Evaluating an Acupuncture Clinic in a VA Medical Center

“I have had pain (nearly) all my life—for 42 years, and nothing has helped! I doubt acupuncture will help me.” This 66-year-old veteran presented to the acupuncture clinic in January 2009. He had sustained back and right knee injuries... More

Feature

Characteristics Associated With Consistently Therapeutic International Normalized Ratios

Vitamin K antagonists have been considered the foundation of oral anticoagulant therapy for > 60 years with the most commonly used agent today being warfarin. The new anticoagulants are appealing compared with warfarin due to decreased... More

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Featuring the Emergency Medicine Bootcamp ... More

Case in Point

Parsonage-Turner Syndrome: Diagnosis and Rehabilitation Strategies

Patients with acute and nonacute cervical and shoulder pain often seek assistance from medical professionals for pain relief. In most cases, these patients can be easily diagnosed and treated. However, in some cases, no definitive common... More

Federal Health Matters

DoD Launches Healthy Base Initiative; Raising Awareness of Prediabetes; Gulf War Illness: Closer to a Solution; Is Malaria on the Way Out?

“One of the main causes for release from active duty…is failure to meet height and weight standards,” says Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs Dr. Jonathan Woodson. Good health and fitness are important to readiness, but the... More

Drug Monitor

Triple Therapy for Chronic Hepatitis C; The Arguments Against Sodium Polystyrene Sulfonate; Low-Dose Vaporized Marijuana Relieves Neuropathic Pain

Genotype 1 is the most difficult of the 6 hepatitis C genotypes to treat. Currently, the preferred approach is combination treatment with pegylated interferon (PEG-IFN) plus ribavirin (RBV) in patients with an uncomplicated infection, but... More

Clinical Digest

Sleep Apnea May Predict Peptic Ulcer Bleeding; Change the Mood, Change the Pain

A patient with sleep apnea may be at a 2.4-fold increased risk for peptic ulcer bleeding, say researchers from Taipei Veterans General Hospital and National Yang-Ming University, both in Taipei, Taiwan. ... More

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Turning Depression Around

Most people feel sad or down at times, but when the sadness lasts longer than a few days, it could be depression. More than just feeling “blue,” depression is a serious illness that can affect how individuals think and behave and can lead to ... More

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Best of the April 2013 Issue

Editor-in-Chief James V. Felicetta, MD, comments on and summarizes the April 2013 issue. ... More

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