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http://www.americangeriatrics.org/files ... ations.pdf

Interesting about dessicated thyroid......
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Thanks, Joan. Great info!

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Joan wrote:Interesting about dessicated thyroid......
That's why so many doctors refuse to prescribe NDT. Notice that the Quality of Evidence is listed as "Low", and yet the Strength of Recommendation is "Strong". To me that smells a lot like "unjustified bias".

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It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
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Had not noticed that but I hadn't really studied it at all. Thanks, Tex. Old studies, too.

I am very glad my Mom was taken off the appetite stimulant Megace/Megestrol.
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