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Homocysteine-Lowering B Vitamins Do Not Lower Mortality or Cardiovascular Events Dr. George Lundberg discusses how homocysteine-lowering B vitamins do not lower mortality or cardiovascular events.
The Medscape Medical Minute, December 2008

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Contemporary Considerations in Cranial-Base Surgery The treatment complexities encountered in skull-base surgery necessitate a team-based approach to address total care of the surgical patient.
Clinical Reviews, December 2008
Assessing Behavioral Coping Preferences of Psychiatric Inpatients: A Pilot Study Inpatients' preferences for preventing loss of control differ by diagnosis, sex, age, and ethnicity. Individual preferences can be used to develop optimal case management strategies.
Psychiatry, December 2008
Prescriptions for Survival Nancy Covington, BSc, MD, President of Physicians for Global Survival, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, invites us to reconnect with the physicians' movement against nuclear war.
Webcast Video Editorials, December 2008
Supraglottoplasty in Infants Using Sinus Instruments A description of a simple, safe, and effective method of supraglottoplasty, using sinus instruments to incise or resect a portion of the aryepiglottic fold.
Case Reports, November 2008
Preparing Medical Students for the World: Service Learning and Global Health Justice The growth of international service learning in undergraduate medical education is discussed in terms of risks and benefits for students, educators, professionalism, and global health justice.
Bioethics, November 2008
The End of Peer Review and Traditional Publishing as We Know It Peter Frishauf, MS, founder of Medscape, discusses the possible end of medical journals.
Webcast Video Commentaries, November 2008
Perforator Flaps: A Microsurgical Innovation Steven Morris, MD, Professor of Surgery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, teaches us about plastic surgery flaps.
Webcast Video Editorials, November 2008
How to Make Screening Mammography Less Uncomfortable Dr. George Lundberg discusses how to make mammography screening less uncomfortable.
The Medscape Medical Minute, November 2008
Multiple Drug Interactions in a Renal Transplant Patient Leading to Simvastatin-Induced Rhabdomyolysis: A Case Report This case report describes a patient with a 12-year history of simvastatin use who presented with rhabdomyolysis.
Case Reports, November 2008
A Case of Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleeding Secondary to a Small Bowel Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor Detected by Magnetic Resonance Enterography Magnetic resonance enterography may have a role in the evaluation of obscure gastrointestinal bleeding when upper and lower endoscopy is negative and capsule endoscopy is unrevealing.
Case Reports, November 2008

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