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May 15, 2001
•	Updated national cholesterol guideline urges early and aggressive treatment
•	New oral agent approved for chronic myeloid leukemia
•	Pravastatin treatment yields greater benefits in older patients with CHD
•	Women’s heart disease awareness sorely lacking
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•	Lipid-lowering therapy reduces mortality rates after acute coronary syndromes
•	Watch for potential adverse interaction between warfarin and vaginal miconazole
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•	Unlocking the secrets of Alzheimer's disease: the nun study (Time)
•	Did a bipolar trait bring a turn for the verse? (Washington Post)
•	Women beware women (Guardian)
•	Review: A Question of Intent (Medscape General Medicine)
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This Week with Simeon Margolis
Posted May 2
One of the most popular herbal remedies for depression may not even work…A study in JAMA found that patients with major depression responded no better to St. John's wort than to placebo…Troglitazone was pulled from the market just over a year ago because of liver toxicity, but its manufacturer had bittersweet good news last month…A study in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism found that troglitazone improved the clinical and laboratory manifestations of polycystic ovary syndrome, which affects about 4% of women of reproductive age…Differentiating leukoplakia from clinically significant cancers can be difficult and a new test may help more >>


	Even if I could be Shakespeare I think that I should still choose to be Faraday. - W Elsasser (Memoirs of a Physicist)
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Hobbyist
Our gastroenterologist on New Zealand’s national treasure, sauvignon blanc

Williams' Corner
Death is a matter of perspective, says a Nobel Prize-winning poet

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NEWS & ALERTS
•	Today's MD News For physicians
•	Journal Scan Best of the week's medical literature
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VIEWS
•	This Week Simeon Margolis on Rezulin’s comeback, the bad news on St. John’s wort, and predicting oral cancer with chromosome counts
•	The Ethicist A flap over sex selection, back-door euthanasia, and medical error spell something rotten in the state of Britain
•	The Spin Doctor When mighty journals do battle, readers lose
•	Short Take Should medical historians convene their annual meeting under the Confederate flag?
•	Opinion Makers Editorials and commentary in 5 leading journals
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ROUNDS
•	The Year in Cardiology James L. Ritchie reviews the state of cardiac treatment: act early and aggressively
•	Trends Beastly drug prices are driving patients to take pills meant for their pets
•	Motherboard Afraid to email your patients? Here?s advice and etiquette that will make it an essential clinical tool
•	Chronicles Making house calls didn't make an early 20th-century country doctor a saint, a 1930s memoir reveals
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LIVES
•	Offline The pull of loop-the-loops lifts a pediatric-oncologist to peak performance
•	The Apprentice A med student finds the motivation for the role of doctor in a skit called physical exam
•	Without Borders A filmmaker travels to Niger, West Africa, to capture the mysterious devastation of noma
•	In Person A shaky intern and his long-suffering patient both learn something about sticking with it
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CAFÉ
•	Random Sample Licensed to what? Phony doc scam exposed
•	Williams' Corner Death is a matter of perspective, says a Nobel Prize-winning poet
•	Reviews A German-Jewish atomic physicist lost the Nobel, but gains new life in a novel about a scientist with Parkinson’s
•	Excerpt From Fission
•	Art Gallery A portraitist reveals the inner beauty of his subjects using x-rays and MRIs
•	The Hobbyist Our gastroenterologist on New Zealand’s national treasure, sauvignon blanc
•	Fiction In an Army hospital, a syringe of sodium pentothal unlocks the demons plaguing a B-17 gunner
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