A new practice guideline recommends against routinely measuring serum vitamin D levels in adults. The Endocrine Society has published a new practice guideline on vitamin D deficiency. This summary covers portions of the guideline that are relevant to adult medicine...
By Micha Shalev About 5 million Americans, or 10% of those over 65 years of age, suffer from Alzheimer’s disease according to the Fischer Center for Alzheimer’s Research Foundation. Yet despite the prevalence of this condition there exists a great deal of confusion...
In Determining Blood Pressure, More Measurements Improve Accuracy A single measurement doesn’t correctly classify a patient’s hypertensive status, according to an Annals of Internal Medicine study. Department of Veterans Affairs researchers followed some...
June 13, 2011 – New performance measures for adults with coronary artery disease (CAD) and hypertension (HTN) were released today by the American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF), the American Heart Association (AHA), and the American Medical Association...