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- Prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers: What works? What doesn’t?
Although pressure ulcers continue to confound our best efforts, their incidence can be reduced and their healing can be speeded.
- Update on peripheral vascular diseases: From smoking cessation to stenting
Despite advances, the two most important treatments remain the same: stopping smoking and starting a walking program.
- Using the new cholesterol guidelines in everyday practice
Many more patients have become candidates for lipid-lowering therapy under new guidelines recently released.
- Recognizing and treating social anxiety disorder
Consider this diagnosis when a patient avoids social situations because of marked and persistent fear and anxiety.
- Mitochondrial cytopathy in adults: What we know so far
The manifestations of mitochondrial cycopathy are remarkably diverse, and the syndromes identified so far probably represent only a few of the disorders.
- Maximizing response to erythropoietin in treating HIV-associated anemia
A number of treatable factors can impair the response to erythropoietin in HIV patients.
- It’s a rave new world: Rave culture and illicit drug use in the young
New and potentially dangerous illicit drugs are popular among young people today.
- C-reactive protein: A ‘golden marker’ for inflammation and coronary artery disease
Elevated levels of CRP are associated with increased cardiovascular risk.
- Using aspirin and ACE inhibitors in combination: Why the hullabaloo?
What is the cause of this patient’s symptoms? A self-test on a clinical case.
- Inflammatory myopathies: Narrowing the differential diagnosis
How to differentiate inflammatory myopathy from other causes of muscle weakness.