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What should you be looking for in your nonambulatory hospitalized patients? A capsulization of current concepts in diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of this problem.

A brief review of appropriate drug therapy in hyperprolactinemia, prolactinoma, and acromegaly.

The author guides the reader through a challenging diagnosis.

An update on management of superior vena cava syndrome, malignant pericardial effusions, hypercalcemia, tumor lysis syndrome, febrile neutropenia, and other problems.

Although much is known of the histopathologic findings in this disease, definitive diagnostic criteria are still lacking.

In this first in a new series of informal dialogues on controversial and emerging topics in cardiac diagnosis and therapy, two internationally known investigators tally the relative merits of atherectomy and angioplasty for percutaneous therapy of coronary artery disease.

CT scanning appears to facilitate demonstration of several features that should arouse the clinician’s and radiologist’s suspicion of pleural malignancy.

After studying 46 women with HIV infection, the authors found that counseling often was not adequate and that, though sexual practices changed, further study is needed to see if these changes are sustained.

Physicians’ rediscovery of their role as educators, not simply interventionists, is the key to the medicine of the future.