Author/s: McDonah, M. S., Morasco, B. J., Wagner, J., Ahmed, A. Y., Fu, R., Kansagara, D., Chou, R.
Background: Contemporary data are needed about the utility of cannabinoids in chronic pain.
Purpose: To evaluate the benefits and harms of cannabinoids for chronic pain.
Data sources: Ovid MEDLINE, PsycINFO, EMBASE, the Cochrane Library, and Scopus to January 2022.
Study...
Author/s: Halani, S., Mishra, S., Bogoch, I. I.
Monkeypox is a viral infection with person-to-person
transmission through direct contact or fomites
The virus is endemic to West and Central Africa.1
Animal-to-human transmission may initiate outbreaks, and person-to-person transmission
occurs through direct, close...
Author/s: Heidari, S., Mostafaei, S., Razazian, N., Rajati, M., Saeedi, A., Rajati, F.
An inevitable exposure to the toxic heavy metal such as lead in our environmental can have irreversible effects on children's mental performance.In this study, 3316 children in 8 case-control studies were selected for review. The case group was exposed to a concentration of lead above 10 μg/dL,...
Author/s: Cohen, P. R.
Pool swimmers are susceptible to pedal dermatoses. The causes for these conditions are asteototic dermatitis, contact dermatitis, friction-induced injury, infections, keratoderma, pruritus, thermal injury, ultraviolet radiation exposure, and urticaria. The specific dermatoses include aquagenic...
Author/s: Laine, C., Cotton, D.
As the pandemic of acute SARS-CoV-2 infection continues, there is another pandemic that shadows it—the growing population of people who have new, continuing, or recurring symptoms long after initial infection. Many refer to this condition as “long COVID,” and the National Institutes of Health's...
Author/s: Farag, H. M., Yunusa, I., Goswami, H., Sultan, I., Doucette, J. A., Eguale, T.
Importance: Amitriptyline is an established medication used off-label for the treatment of fibromyalgia, but pregabalin, duloxetine, and milnacipran are the only pharmacological agents approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat fibromyalgia.
Objective: To investigate...
Author/s: Wells, G. A., Hsieh, S., Zheng, C., Peterson, J., Tugwell, P., Liu, W.
Background: Osteoporosis is an abnormal reduction in bone mass and bone deterioration leading to increased fracture risk. Risedronate belongs to the bisphosphonate class of drugs which act to inhibit bone resorption by interfering with the activity of osteoclasts. This is an update of a Cochrane...
Author/s: Hayver, R. D., Abedini, N., Jayes, R. L., Matti-Orozco, B., Pomerantz, D. H., Ansari, A. A.
All clinicians should maintain basic skills in general palliative care to help address the needs of patients and families. Because keeping up with the information provided by the growing palliative care literature can be challenging, we conducted a detailed search via Medline for palliative care...
Author/s: Tien, Y., Shih, M., Tien, C., Huang, H., Tu, Y.
Purpose: Hyperuricemia is associated with increased cardiovascular risk. Because patients with asymptomatic hyperuricemia (AH) experience no immediate discomfort and there are possible side effects of urate-lowering drugs, treatment for AH is controversial. We aimed to perform a network meta-...
Author/s: Chiarotto, A., Koes, B. W.
Low back pain typically defined as pain below the costal margin and above the inferior gluteal folds with or without leg pain 1 is worldwide the most prevalent and most disabling of the conditions that are considered to benefit from rehabilitation 2 In a systematic review that included 165...