March 15th
Symptomatic infection will usually respond to polyene agents (nystatin) or to one of a variety of imidazole antifungal agents (e.g. clotrimazole, econazole, isoconazole or miconazole) used in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions. Typical regimens include:
Nystatin vaginal pessaries or tablets (100,000 U) 1 or 2 pessaries or tablets daily for 2 weeks or topical imidazole [...]
March 15th
Paget’s disease is a relatively rare condition which typically affects old people -men more than women. It causes thickening and bowing of the bones, particularly the long bones of the legs. It also causes thickening of the skull bones, which can cause headaches that are felt deep down inside the skull, often towards the back. [...]
Read more of MISCELLANEOUS CAUSES OF HEADACHES: PAGET’S DISEASE…
March 13th
1. No single treatment is appropriate for all individuals. Matching treatment
settings, interventions, and services to each patient’s problems and needs is critical.
2. Treatment needs to be readily available. Treatment applicants can be lost if
treatment is not immediately available or readily accessible.
3. Effective treatment attends to multiple needs of the individual, not just
his or her drug [...]
March 13th
HISTORY
Progress in medicine saw a reduction in the use of infusions of the whole of plants. Increasingly parts of plants eg. leaves and roots, were powdered, and by the 19th century some of their active ingredients
were being identified and reproduced chemically. New mineral and chemical substances were discovered that had medicinal use. Many medicines were [...]
March 12th
A new medical study has proved what I’ve long held to be true: When it comes to dieting, it’s not what you eat, but how much of whatever it is you do eat that matters. Despite the hype of each
that comes along, where fats are in one day and out the next, where carbs [...]
March 12th
As Stephen Colbert would say: “Welcome to the Report ladies and gentlemen.” Dr. Z’s Medical Report has a new home here on Everyday Health, and I am happy to welcome both old and new readers to my blog, which began in 2006 on HealthTalk. Although HealthTalk no longer exists as its own website, much of [...]
March 12th
Because of the frequency of concurrent infections and the possibility of silent infections or unusual presentations, some screening tests should be routine for all patients presenting with STD. A similar routine should be offered to patients in high risk groups presenting for check-ups. The following are recommended:
Serological tests for syphilis (see p.25) i.e. routine [...]
March 12th
If the headache is due to sub-arachnoid haemorrhage then medical treatment needs to be sought urgently; the patient will need an urgent operation to close the bleeding artery inside the skull.
True coital headache (i.e. neither a tension headache nor a sub-arachnoid haemorrhage) will go away of its own accord. On the other hand, knowing [...]
March 12th
If you or someone you know takes Plavix (clopidogrel), which is an anticlotting medication (often referred to as a blood thinner), you should take note of recent findings suggesting a potential problem when it is taken along with other drugs known as proton pump inhibitors. Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are drugs that reduce stomach acid [...]
March 12th
Stem cells have been in the news a lot this week because of President Obama’s executive order lifting the Bush administration’s strict limitations on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. But stem cells are quite confusing because they come in so many different forms, involve such complex terminology, and seem to require an advanced [...]