Primary Care Corner with Geoffrey Modest MD: Oseltamivir for Influenza […]
Primary Care Corner with Geoffrey Modest MD: Another Downside of Lung Cancer CT Screening
Primary Care Corner with Geoffrey Modest MD: Another Downside of Lung Cancer CT Screening […]
Primary Care Corner with Geoffrey Modest MD: Flu Vaccine Recommendations 2015-6
Primary Care Corner with Geoffrey Modest MD: Flu Vaccine Recommendations 2015-6 […]
Primary Care Corner with Geoffrey Modest MD: Spicy Foods and Mortality
Primary Care Corner with Geoffrey Modest MD: Spicy Foods and Mortality […]
Primary Care Corner with Geoffrey Modest MD: Post-op Delirium in Elderly
Primary Care Corner with Geoffrey Modest MD: Post-op Delirium in Elderly […]
Primary Care Corner with Geoffrey Modest MD: Early Life Stress (in Mice), Changes in Microbiome, and Later Anxiety
Primary Care Corner with Geoffrey Modest MD: Early Life Stress (in Mice), Changes in Microbiome, and Later Anxiety […]
Primary Care Corner with Geoffrey Modest MD: Blood Pressure Variability and Heart Disease
Primary Care Corner with Geoffrey Modest MD: Blood Pressure Variability and Heart Disease […]
Primary Care Corner with Geoffrey Modest MD: Atrial Fibrillation and Weight Loss
Primary Care Corner with Geoffrey Modest MD: Atrial Fibrillation and Weight Loss […]
Primary Care Corner with Geoffrey Modest MD: M. gentialium
By: Dr. Geoffrey Modest As a followup to my blog post on the CDC guidelines for sexually-transmitted diseases, there was a recent study looking at Mycoplasma genitalium resistance in the Netherlands (see doi:10.1093/jac/dkv136). And this comes right after the comment from prior my blog noting that M. genitalium “does respond to 1-g single dose of azithromycin (though resistance […]
Primary Care Corner with Geoffrey Modest MD: Arthroscopic surgery for knee OA???
By: Dr. Geoffrey Modest There have been a couple of well-publicized studies finding that arthroscopic knee surgery for degenerative joint disease/osteoarthritis (OA) is not beneficial. However, there continues to be uncertainty, and “many specialists are convinced of the benefits of the procedure from their own experience”. In the US, 700K knee arthroscopies are done each year, […]