Recently added articles from Cortlandt Forum:
I hope you.(website introduction)(Editorial)(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2009; ... I hope you've had a chance to visit our new Web site and sample the many features we've added. What we really hope is that you'll add your own thoughts, opinions, and knowledge to the site. You'll find a comment box at the end of each article allowing you to do just that, and I encourage ...
I'll just eat at the bar.(Cartoon)
Jan 01, 2009 ... "I'll just eat at the bar." ...
More colonoscopies in your future?(QUICK DIGEST)
Jan 01, 2009 ... Primary-care physicians (PCPs) are performing colonoscopies as safely and effectively as specialists, a meta-analysis found. The research team reviewed 12 studies (involving 18,292 patients) that evaluated procedures by trained PCPs. Investigators found an 89.2% success rate for ...
Quicktakes.(QUICK DIGEST)
Jan 01, 2009 ... A new guideline from the American College of Physicians supports a CDC recommendation by calling on doctors to routinely encourage HIV screening for all patients older than 13 years, regardless of their risk factors ... A pair of recent studies found that statins and NSAIDs may lower serum ...
Statistically significant.(QUICK DIGEST)(briefs)(Brief article)
Jan 01, 2009 ... 30 Percentage of people diagnosed with asthma who don't have the disease. Using spirometry and bronchial challenge tests with methacholine, researchers at the University of Ottawa tried to confirm physician diagnoses of asthma in 496 people from eight Canadian cities. Asthma was excluded ...