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Is red-yeast rice a safe and effective alternative to statins?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2015)
Q: Is red-yeast rice a safe and effective alternative to statins? Evidence-based answer: Yes, but perhaps not the red yeast rice extracts available in the United States. In patients with known coronary artery disease and ...
Does frenotomy help infants with tongue-tie overcome breastfeeding difficulties?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2015)
Q: Does frenotomy help infants with tongue-tie overcome breastfeeding difficulties? Evidence-based answer: Probably not. No evidence exists for improved latching after frenotomy, and evidence concerning improvements in ...
Does the presence of a trained support person during labor decrease C-section rates?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2015)
Q: Does the presence of a trained support person during labor decrease C-section rates? Evidence-based answer: sometimes. The continuous presence of a support person during labor slightly decreases (by about 2%) the ...
Are inhaled steroids effective for a postviral cough?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2015)
Q: Are inhaled steroids effective for a postviral cough? Evidence-based answer: No. Inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) don't improve postviral cough in adults with subacute (3-8 weeks) or chronic (>8 weeks) cough, adolescents ...
Ex-ante Economic Analysis of Biological Control of Coconut Mite in Benin
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2013)
The coconut mite, Aceria guerreronis Keifer, has been identified as one of the pests that pose a threat to the coconut industry in Benin. The study presents the simulation results of the economic benefits of the biological ...
A Feminist critique : the value of a body
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri, 2013)
The poem, "The Bog Queen" by Seamus Heaney is one that, through rhetorical tools of personification, communicates the role of the female body in the later years. While the poem can be seen as a literal illustration of the ...
Issue Brief : Alcohol impaired drivers
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri, 2013)
Injury resulting from a motor vehicle crash is the leading cause of death in the United States among those aged 1 to 34. In 2002 17,419 of 42,815 traffic deaths were alcohol related. At that rate about one in every ten ...
Hannibal, MO: "America's Hometown" amidst fictional landscape
(University of Missouri, The Campus Writing Program, 2014)
In order to fully appreciate the scope of our surroundings, we must look to and describe different views of the same scene throughout history, detailing what composes this view and why these stages are necessary in foreseeing ...
Modeling of Gene Flow by a Bayesian Approach : A New Perspective for Decision Support
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2014)
In the European debate about GMOs, the coexistence between GM and non-GM crops is a major stake. The regulatory coexistence measures currently considered by Member States mostly rely on fixed separation distances at a ...
The Economics of Labeling GM Foods
(University of Missouri, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, 2014)
This article focuses on the economics of labeling genetically modified (GM) foods and some implications of GM-labeling policies. Food labels are one potentially important source of information about attributes of food that ...
Elijah's Inferno
(University of Missouri, The Campus Writing Program, 2014)
Elijah Solidum chose to write "Elija's Inferno" because he had read Dante's Inferno in class that semester, and he wanted to put a personal and more modern spin on Dante's masterpiece. He tried to keep Dante's general ...
How to live a life
(University of Missouri, The Campus Writing Program, 2014)
Sean Donovan wrote this paper for Middle Ages and Renaissance Humanities Sequence class, responding to a prompt on how different works from this time period address the subject of how people can best live their life.
Whom should you test for secondary causes of hypertension?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2014)
Evidence-based answer: It's recommended that all children and adolescents with a new diagnosis of hypertension undergo renal ultrasound and laboratory evaluation for renal pathology (strength of recommendation [SOR]: C, ...
Treating migrane : the case for aspirin
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2014)
Recommend aspirin 975 mg (3 adult tablets) as a viable first-line treatment for acute migraine. Consider prescribing metoclopramide 10 mg to be taken with aspirin to markedly decrease associated nausea and help achieve ...
Is self-swabbing for STIs a good idea?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2013)
Ask women who are at risk for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) to self-swab for chlamydia and gonorrhea testing; self-collection of vulvovaginal swabs with nucleic acid amplification testing (NAAT) has excellent ...
How best to treat UTIs in women who breastfeed?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2014)
It's unclear, as no studies have specifically evaluated therapies for uncomplicated urinary tract infections (UTIs) in breastfeeding women. However, trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (TMP/SMX), b-lactam antibiotics, nitrofurantoin, ...
When you suspect ACS, which serologic marker is best?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2014)
Measurement of troponin levels provides the most sensitive and accurate serologic information in evaluating a patient with acute coronary syndrome (ACS); troponin elevations are more sensitive than elevations of creatine ...
What clinical clues differentiate migraine from sinus headaches?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2013)
Evidence-based answer: Patients with sinus headaches have thick nasal discharge, fever, chills, sweats, or abnormally malodorous breath (SOR: B, cross-sectional study). The 5 symptoms that are most predictive of migraine ...
Putting the pulp in pulp fiction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, Rhetoric and Composition Program, 2014)
Between interlocking story lines and black humor, few films have gained such universal critical acclaim (without winning Best Picture) as Quentin Tarantino's 1994 mob masterpiece Pulp Fiction. Dominated by brilliant dialogue, ...