Table of Contents
Editorial
- A proper role for organized medicine in a new era
Medical societies often fail to understand the needs of the new breed of physician.
Interpreting Key Trials
- Digoxin’s effect on mortality and hospitalization in heart failure: implications of the DIG study
Results of the world’s largest clinical trial resting the utility of digoxin in treating heart failure.
Current Drug Therapy
- Troglitazone: a new antihyperglycemic agent
Indications for and use of the newest oral drug for the treatment of type II diabetes.
Highlights from Medical Grand Rounds
- The protein-sparing modified fast for obesity-related medical problems
This ketogenic diet of 800 calories per day is useful for carefully selected patients.
Internal Medicine Board Review
- A 34-year-old woman with odynophagia and weight loss
On the basis of the clinical picture and laboratory data, what is the most likely diagnosis?
Clinical Review
- Approach to adult patients with recurrent infections
How to recognize the underlying disorders in a variety of recurrent infections.
- Chronic hepatitis C: a clinical overview
Testing and treatment options for this increasingly common infection and current thinking about the various prognostic factors.
Clinical Research Update
- A live-virus “suicide” vaccine for human immunodeficiency virus
Because other AIDS vaccines have failed, the concept of a live-virus vaccine is gaining acceptance.
Cancer Diagnosis and Management
- Ethical issues in clinical trials in oncology
Ethical questions can arise in a number of situations in oncology clinical trials.
