Questioning Medicine

GLP1 agonist likely lead to retained gastric products but this effect is larger for once weekly injections than once daily pills.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10204182/

5 Feb 20246min

During 28 months of follow-up, absolute risks for progression from CIN2 to CIN3 (or worse) were as follows: 23% among women vaccinated before age 15 32% among women vaccinated between ages 15 and 20 3...

2 Feb 20248min

>10% unintentional weight loss is most likely associated with  gastrointestinal, liver, pancreatic, and biliary cancers (relative risks, 3.1–7.4); Leukemia (RR, 4.2) Breast, prostate, and gynecologic ...

1 Feb 20245min

PDE5i are bad if your health if you have cardiovascular disease and a provider that didn't read the paper and only looked at the abstract. Go ahead and write for PDE5i for your patients that need it a...

31 Jan 20249min

Doxy 100mg BID x7days for chlamydia- and consider treating the partner unless you live in West Virginia. https://www.cdc.gov/std/treatment-guidelines/chlamydia.htm

30 Jan 20249min

Overall incidence of zoster (defined as the presence of the specific diagnostic code in the medical record, accompanied by a prescription for acyclovir) was lower among vaccine recipients, with vaccin...

29 Jan 20245min

Compared with complication rates in the National Lung Screening Trial, this real-world study had approximately twice the rate of procedural complications (31% vs. 18%) and major complications (i.e., a...

26 Jan 20246min

Ask about and stop aspirin in patients taking it for primary preventionLi DK et al. Trends in upper gastrointestinal bleeding in patients on primary prevention aspirin: A nationwide emergency departme...

25 Jan 20245min