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This week’s topics include myths about obesity, adult immunization update, diabetes management in kids, and antidepressants and an EKG abnormality.

Therapy for high blood pressure/congestive heart failure, delayed versus immediate repair of the anterior cruciate ligament, antibiotics for severe malnutrition, prostatectomy vs radiation for localized prostate cancer.

This week’s topics include 30 day readmissions, chicken soup and melamine, hearing loss and cognitive decline, and screening for partner violence.

This week’s topics include fecal infusion for Clostridium difficile infection, persistence of cough, best injection site for children, and detecting alcohol abuse.

This week’s topics include IUD for heavy menstrual bleeding, alcohol use in women and teenagers, vitamin D and osteoarthritis, and resistant gonorrhea in North America.

This week’s topics include SSRIs and infant risk, fructose and the brain, BMI and mortality, and transfusion in gastrointestinal bleeding.

No benefit seen with managing micronutrients in dialysis patients, follow-up relative to ablation in atrial fibrillation, atherosclerosis in servicemen, dangers of transfusion in people who've had a heart attack.

This week’s topics include Rudolph’s nose, treatment for whiplash, hypnotic medications in those with insomnia, and antibiotics for lower respiratory tract infections.

This week’s topics include outcomes following compression-only CPR, electronic interventions for weight loss and management, keeping teens from smoking, and managing sleep apnea at high altitude.

This week's topics include Viagra plus testosterone, monster caffeine drinks, alcohol and calories, and ADHD medications and criminality.

This week’s topics include brain disease and soccer, fasting to test cholesterol, patient expectation from screening tests, and survival in in hospital cardiac arrest.

This week’s topics include repair of abdominal aortic aneurysm, 30 years of mammography data, the impact of health screenings, and adolescents and muscle building.

This week’s topics include steroid injections for sciatica, fungal injection following steroid injection, probiotics for Clostridium difficile infection, and recurrent versus relapsing Lyme disease.

This week’s topics include exercise for knee osteoarthritis, a comparison of two diabetes drugs and cardiovascular risk, patient expectations of chemotherapy and rescreening methods after a negative colonoscopy.

International Medical Headlines October 2012