Top medicine articles for October 2014

A collection of some interesting medical articles published recently:Hand-grip strength is an amazingly good predictor of future rates of mortality and morbidity, or sickness http://buff.ly/1BK759H -- Hand grip strength should be considered as a vital sign useful for screening middle-aged and older adults http://buff.ly/1DglFaI -- Measuring hand-grip strength is very simple and cheap. Every primary care doctor should have a dynamometer in their office. At every visit, the doctor could check grip strength for older patients. If someone was in the 45th percentile for their age and the measurements were stable, great. But if that person suddenly dropped to the 25th percentile, then that’s a sign that the doctor should look seriously at what might be going on. Full fat milk (3%) cut the risk of getting diabetes type 2 by 20% http://buff.ly/1m9ghRLUrine Test for Diagnosis of HPV Works Well (not yet available in practice) http://bit.ly/1pnswESWeekly Injectable Drug for DM2 Approved -Trulicity (dulaglutide) a glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist. http://bit.ly/1pnsyNhFDA approved for treating fibromyalgia: pregabalin (Lyrica), duloxetine (Cymbalta), milnacipran (Savella) http://reut.rs/1pnsWetHuman Body, According to Venture Capitalists - which body systems stand to benefit most from their decisions - WSJ http://bit.ly/1pntgdpSodium conundrum: 9 in 10 U.S. children eat too much salt http://buff.ly/1wdlXx5With 23andMe, this biologist gave his parents the gift of divorce...
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