What has changed in the past year? Each year we review therapeutic issues covered in the past and identify new clinical trials that reinforce or change our recommendations. Our last Review and Update, Letter 9, was...
Imagine you just discovered that you have a risk factor for cardiovascular disease (e.g. High LDL cholesterol). A drug that will reduce this risk factor is available, and it has a low incidence of side...
The term "hormone replacement therapy" is appropriate when used to describe the prescription of estrogens plus progestogens for a premenopausal woman who has had an oophorectomy. The use of these hormones after natural menopause should...
Losartan (Cozaar®) Lansoprazole (Prevacid®) Cefprozil (Cefzil®) Zuclopenthixol (Clopixol®) It is difficult for the average practitioner to find unbiased information about newly released drugs. We have decided to help to fill this void by picking high profile new drugs,...