Thyroid autoantibodies: to treat or not to treat?

Subclinical thyroid disease: to treat or not to treat?

Distress: to treat or not to treat?

In one of our research group meetings, we took an informal poll to find out who would prescribe a benzodiazepine to someone who was acutely grieving, felt anxious, was experiencing some insomnia, and wanted relief from distress. The younger among us mostly would prescribe while those of us who are grizzled would mostly refrain from doing so. Coincidentally, within the next week, one of my patie...

[Fever : to treat or not to treat ?]

Fever is routinely faced during medical practice. Although it is part of the immune response against pathogens, it is often seen as deleterious and a source of discomfort leading to the use of antipyretic drugs. However, few clinical data support this common practice. On the contrary, to date, results tilt in favor of the beneficial effect of fever, such as a better immune response and inhibiti...

To Treat or Not to Treat: The Role of Adjuvant Radioiodine Therapy in Thyroid Cancer Patients

Radioactive iodine (RAI) is used in treatment of patients with differentiated papillary and follicular thyroid cancer. It is typically used after thyroidectomy, both as a means of imaging to detect residual thyroid tissue or metastatic disease, as well as a means of treatment by ablation if such tissue is found. In this paper, we discuss the indications for and the mechanisms of RAI in the trea...

Dialysis in the elderly, to treat or not to treat?

The population on renal replacement therapy (RRT) currency, but rather describes the approach to probhas become older and beset by more co-morbidity than lems by thinking citizens in a given society and, for was thought possible when dialysis was introduced. each of us, is influenced by our religious beliefs and About half of the stock is over the normal retirement by the different ethical cons...