From MedPage Today:
- Diabetes Patients on BP Meds at Lower Risk. Lowering blood pressure in patients with type 2 diabetes was associated with decreased mortality risk in a meta-analysis of 40 randomized trials.
- ACA: Beyond ‘Repeal And Replace’. Repeal and replace” has been the rallying cry for Republicans since the Affordable Care Act was signed into law in 2010. But now that most of the law’s provisions have taken effect, some health experts are pitching ways to improve it, rather than eliminate it.
- Did Advice to Cut Saturated Fats Go Very Wrong? National recommendations to cut saturated fat intake never should have been introduced in the late 1970s and 1980s, researchers argued, although their claim of a lack of evidence met with criticism.
- Primary Problems Confront Primary Care. When Andrew Morris-Singer was in his fourth year of medical school his mother’s lungs stopped working.
