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- Adverse events: Reducing the risk of litigation
Common-sense measures can prevent adverse outcomes and lawsuits.
- Chronic myelogenous leukemia: The news you have and haven’t heard
One major advance in treating CML was widely publicized. Another, although equally important, was not.
- Management of primary headache: Serendipity and science
A capsule summary of the current management of migraine, chronic tension headache, and cluster headache.
- Elusive syndromes: Treating the biologic basis of fibromyalgia and related syndromes
Fibromyalgia may have a stronger physiologic basis than previously thought, and its symptoms can be alleviated.
- New developments in long-term treatment of HIV: The honeymoon is over
New recommendations advise starting antiretroviral therapy slightly later in the course of HIV disease than did earlier guidelines, as treatment has serious long-term side effects.
- Noninvasive positive pressure ventilation in acute respiratory failure: Does it improve outcomes?
Why insert an endotracheal tube when a mask may do?
- Heat illness: Tips for recognition and treatment
Heat stroke is an acute, life-threatening emergency. Early recognition and rapid cooling are essential.
- Trends in hospital medicine: Hospitalist advantages revealed
Available data indicate that hospitalists reduce health care costs while providing care of at least equal quality to that provided by primary care physicians.
- Use of cholinesterase inhibitors for treatment of Alzheimer disease
These drugs may slow but do not halt disease progression. They may be most beneficial if started early.
- Microbial drug resistance and the roles of the new antibiotics
Indiscriminate use of broad-spectrum antibiotics such as vancomycin and quinolones is promoting antibiotic resistance.