Clinical Reviews

Medication Nonadherence: An Unrecognized Cardiovascular Risk Factor This review examines the prevalence of nonadherence as a risk factor in the management of chronic diseases, with a specific focus on antihypertensive medications.
Clinical Review, September 19, 2007
Treating the Ocular Component of Allergic Rhinoconjunctivitis This article assess the current state of ocular allergy epidemiology, pathophysiology, and currently available treatment options.
Journal Article, August 15, 2007
Insulin Analogs With Oral Agents for Treating Type 2 Diabetes This review of clinical evidence and current diabetes treatment guidelines explains initiation therapy with insulin analogs for treating patients early in the course of type 2 diabetes.
Clinical Review, April 16, 2007
Dietary Factors in the Modulation of IBD There are many potential and promising dietary factors that may play a role in the modulation of inflammatory bowel disease.
Clinical Review, March 27, 2007
Evolution of a Pulmonary Insulin Delivery System for Patients With Diabetes The findings highlighted in this Clinical Review suggest that this inhaled insulin device represents an important new development in the treatment of diabetes: It may improve glycemic control.
Clinical Review, March 05, 2007
Insomnia: Zolpidem Extended-Release for Sleep Induction and Maintenance This reviews how patients who experience insomnia can be treated with the medication zolpidem to treat the symptoms without affecting next-morning cognitive and psychomotor performance.
Clinical Review, January 17, 2007
Addition of Basal Insulin to Oral Antidiabetic Agents for Type 2 Diabetes Oral antidiabetic therapy in combination with insulin provides an effective therapeutic option for patients who are unable to achieve or maintain glycemic goals on oral therapy alone.
Clinical Review, November 15, 2006
An Assessment of Topical Calcineurin Inhibitors This article reviews topical calcineurin inhibitors and their long-term value in treating atopic dermatitis.
Clinical Review, October 10, 2006
Hidrocystomas - A Brief Review Here is a case of hidrocystoma. It reviews the main epidemiologic, histologic, clinical, and effective and experimental treatment methods.
Clinical Review, September 05, 2006
Recent Statin Trials and Revised NCEP III Guidelines Can recent statin trials and the NCEP ATP III revised guidelines result in many more patients receiving statins of proven benefit and reassuring adverse event profiles?
Journal Article, February 23, 2006
Opioids and Treatment of Chronic Pain: Understanding Pain Patterns and the Role for Rapid-Onset Opioids Understanding the timing and activities that are associated with severe pain can help guide strategies for use of opioids.
Journal Article, November 23, 2005
Optimal Initiation of Insulin in Type 2 Diabetes This article reinforces the rationale for early introduction of insulin therapy in type 2 diabetes, discusses the place in therapy for different insulin strategies, and provides recommendations for initiating insulin.
Journal Article, November 16, 2005
Approaching Cardiac Arrhythmias in the Elderly Patient New advances and treatment modalities have provided the elderly population with the possibility of improved quality of life, decreased morbidity, and improved survival.
Journal Article, October 26, 2005
Management Strategies of Dyslipidemia in the Elderly Clinical trials have been completed since the publication of the National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel III guidelines. This article notes the compelling data.
Journal Article, October 10, 2005
Diagnosis, Treatment, and Management of Irritable Bowel Syndrome With Constipation and Chronic Constipation What steps should be taken to treat patients with IBS-C and chronic constipation?
Journal Article, August 10, 2005
B-Cell Depletion for Rheumatic Diseases: Where Are We? Clinical trials in RA and SLE have shown that rituximab, an anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody, can profoundly reduce disease activity and is generally well tolerated.
Journal Article, June 08, 2005
The Prevention and Treatment of Osteoporosis: A Review Bone density is the best predictor of fracture risk for those without prior adult fractures.
Journal Article, May 11, 2005
Choice of Antihypertensive Drug in the Diabetic Patient Clinicians should concentrate on seeking lower target blood pressures rather than be excessively concerned about which is the best antihypertensive agent.
Journal Article, May 04, 2005
Evidence-based Management of Coronary Artery Disease in the Elderly -- Current Perspectives Review treatment approaches and recommendations for coronary artery disease in the elderly.
Journal Article, April 13, 2005
Evidence-Based Management of Acute Myocardial Infarction in the Elderly -- Current Perspectives This review focuses on treatment approaches and recommendations for the management of elderly patients with acute MI obtained from subgroup analyses from major clinical trials.
Journal Article, March 30, 2005

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