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- Six screening tests for adults: What’s recommended? What’s controversial?
Guidelines for screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm and cancers of the colon, cervix, lung, breast, and prostate.
- Why are we doing cardiovascular outcome trials in type 2 diabetes?
Lowering blood glucose alone may not reduce adverse cardiovascular events.
- Bench-to-bedside challenges in developing immune protection against breast cancer
A vaccine against breast cancer is being developed. Here, the author explains the principles and challenges.
- Keeping up with immunizations for adults
Flu, tetanus, measles, mumps, rubella, varicella, hepatitis A and B, human papillomavirus, zoster, pneumonia, and meningitis.
- Advances in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease—2014 and beyond
An overview of its pathogenesis, diagnosis, management, complications, and future possible treatment.
Sleep apnea ABCs: Airway, breathing, circulationObstructive sleep apnea is common, poorly recognized, and, if untreated, leads to serious health consequences.
- Managing acute coronary syndromes: Decades of progress
In managing acute coronary syndromes, physicians can draw on a large body of evidence from clinical trials.
- Acute and critical limb ischemia: When time is limb
Just as in acute myocardial infarction, where “time is muscle,” in many cases of vascular disease in the leg, “time is limb.”
- Managing severe acute pancreatitis
Progress in managing this disease has been disappointing, but clinicians are learning to recognize it and treat it supportively better than in the past.
- Detecting and controlling diabetic nephropathy: What do we know?
Diabetic kidney disease is on the rise. Strategies to prevent or control it are lowering blood pressure, controlling blood sugar, and inhibiting the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system.
