Vague Lies: How to Advise Consumers When They Complain

When to advise surgery for severe obesity.

A typical severely obese patient will have about 50 kg excess weight to lose, which is equivalent to a store of 350,000 kcal. The optimum rate of weight loss in such a patient is about 1 kg/week, which involves an energy deficit of 1000 kcal/day for about a year. It is difficult to maintain this degree of dietary restriction over such a long period, and procedures such as jaw wiring or stomach ...

When to Advise Operation in General Practice

Folic Acid Supplementation: to Advise or not to Advise?

Little Progress in How To Advise Women With Dense Breasts.

focus on finding the small proportion of patients that might be harmed [by ADT]. Until such a subgroup is definitively identified, we should still generally be offering ADT to men with high-risk disease , as this has been proven repeatedly in randomized trials to improve overall and cancer-specific survival. " The only randomized prostate cancer trial that has included cardiovascular history is...

How Do Consumers Respond When Default Options Push the Envelope?

Many employers have increased the default contribution rates in their retirement plans, generating higher employee savings. However, a large fraction of employers are reluctant to default employees into savings rates that are high enough to leave those employees adequately prepared for retirement without supplementary savings. There are two potential concerns regarding a high default: (i) it ma...