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- Nancy A. Melville
Publish date: March 2, 2021
“Better pain management treatment options, including nonpharmacological options, are needed for people with MS and pain.”
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- Author:
- Nancy A. Melville
Publish date: February 18, 2021
Use of two “low-value” breast cancer procedures has increased in the United States.
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- Nancy A. Melville
Publish date: February 8, 2021
Those with overt hypothyroidism are less likely to remain euthyroid than patients with subclinical disease, but many wind up restarting treatment.<...
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- Author:
- Nancy A. Melville
Publish date: January 29, 2021
The incidence of thyroid cancer among children and adolescents around the world mimics the patterns in adults, wh...
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- Author:
- Nancy A. Melville
Publish date: January 22, 2021
A large Swedish study shows those treated with LT3 in combination with LT4 for hypothyroidism have no greater breast cancer r...
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- Author:
- Nancy A. Melville
Publish date: January 22, 2021
The reduction in mortality among those with diabetes taking metformin prior to COVID-19 diagnosis was significant.
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- Author:
- Nancy A. Melville
Publish date: January 11, 2021
Research in over 50,000 individuals shows those with brown fat seemed to have lower risks of diabetes and cardiovascular disease than those with no...
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- Author:
- Nancy A. Melville
Publish date: December 26, 2020
A real-world study of nearly 30,000 women shows no benefit, in terms of hip fracture risk, between taking oral bisphosphonates for 10 years vs. 5 y...
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- Author:
- Nancy A. Melville
Publish date: December 10, 2020
A study of wide-ranging vitamin D dosing finds no reduction in risk of falls, while high doses may even increase risk. But editorialist says check ...
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- Author:
- Nancy A. Melville
Publish date: December 2, 2020
"CT provides a more direct volumetric measure [than DXA] and is likely a more accurate method for BMD assessment," one expert says.
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- Author:
- Nancy A. Melville
Publish date: November 30, 2020
Health care professionals should recognize the importance of weight loss in those older than 60 years and include them in programs to treat obesity...
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- Author:
- Nancy A. Melville
Publish date: November 24, 2020
“These findings support the concept of the cumulative burden of LDL cholesterol over one’s lifetime and the progressive increase in risk for athero...
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- Author:
- Nancy A. Melville
Publish date: November 6, 2020
A new guideline from the Endocrine Society calls for heightened awareness of cholesterol management and treatment in endocrine diseases beyond diab...
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- Author:
- Nancy A. Melville
Publish date: October 30, 2020
There is now hope of improving outcomes and even sparing lives of patients who may otherwise have been mistakenly assessed as having no chance of r...
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- Author:
- Nancy A. Melville
Publish date: October 7, 2020
Those randomized to eating only between noon and 8 p.m. showed no greater weight loss versus a control group, while a large proportion of weight th...
