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Should patients receive 23-valent pneumococcal vaccination more than once?
- Author:
- John Whiteside, MD
- Michael Grover, DO
- Kristin Hitchcock, MSI
EVIDENCE-BASED ANSWER: No patient-oriented evidence supports pneumococcal revaccination of any patient (high-risk or otherwise). Antibody levels...
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Does stopping a statin increase the short-term risk of a cardiovascular event?
- Author:
- Paul Crawford, MD
- Kristin Hitchcock, MSI
EVIDENCE-BASED ANSWER: When hydroxymethyl glutaryl coenzyme A (HMG CoA)inhibitors (statins) are stopped by asymptomatic patients, there appears to...