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American Family Physician December 1, 2005 Cole, Seto & Gazewood |
Plantar Fasciitis: Evidence-Based Review of Diagnosis and Therapy Most interventions used to manage plantar fasciitis have not been studied adequately; however, shoe inserts, stretching exercises, steroid injection, and custom-made night splints may be beneficial. |
American Family Physician December 1, 2005 |
Plantar Fasciitis: What You Should Know A patient hand-out on the painful foot condition, its diagnosis and treatment options. |
American Family Physician December 1, 2005 Lawvere & Mahoney |
St. John's Wort The herb has been found to be superior to placebo and equivalent to standard antidepressants for the treatment of mild to moderate depression. St. John's wort is generally well tolerated, although it may potentially reduce the effectiveness of several pharmaceutical drugs. |
American Family Physician December 1, 2005 Wattendorf & Muenke |
Klinefelter Syndrome This disease is caused by an additional X chromosome in males. Clinical findings are nonspecific during childhood; thus, the diagnosis commonly is made during adolescence or adulthood in males who have small testes with hypergonadotropic hypogonadism and gynecomastia. |
American Family Physician December 1, 2005 Christine Hsieh |
Treatment of Constipation in Older Adults Effectiveness of a variety of treatments for chronic constipation in the elderly. |
American Family Physician December 1, 2005 |
Constipation: What You Should Know A patient hand-out on the condition, what causes it and how to alleviate the problem. |
AskMen.com Dustin Driver |
Do Medical Miracle Cures Work? Alternative medicines and techniques claim to cure all, and guys are particularly vulnerable to such claims. Not all, but most are dubious at best. |
BusinessWeek November 28, 2005 Arlene Weintraub |
My, How You've Grown A wave of drugs for short kids is sparking social controversy -- and an expanding market. Growth hormones are likely to remain in the spotlight for another reason: They could become the first-ever biotech drugs to become available in generic form. |
BusinessWeek November 28, 2005 Arlene Weintraub |
Human Growth Hormone: Unproven and Unsafe HGH is often hyped as a cure for aging. But as so with most fountains of youth, there's no proof that it works. And it can be harmful. But for now, off-label use of human growth hormone appears to be a growth industry. |
BusinessWeek November 28, 2005 Kate Murphy |
Tinsel Teeth, Take Two Need to refresh that smile? New braces can do it faster and with less pain. |
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