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Instead of confidently awaiting the next generation of antibiotics to conquer antibiotic resistance, physicians must take a humbler view. With an illustration explaining how bacteria acquire resistance.

What is the likely cause of this patient’s hypercalcemia? A self quiz on a clinical case.

Appropriate management of this life-threatening infection requires rapid recognition, immediate antibiotic therapy, and expeditious surgical debridement or excision.

Depression is common, but often overlooked because patients with depression often present with somatic complaints rather than psychological ones.

Some research indicates that some patients with chronic fatigue syndrome have abnormal vasovagal or vasodepressor responses to upright posture. But subsequent studies have not corroborated these results.

The platelet glycoprotein Ilb/IIIa inhibitor abciximab, together with heparin in a low, weight-adjusted dose, markedly reduced the risk of acute ischemic complications during angioplasty, without increasing the risk of hemorrhage.

Often Paget’s disease of bone is asymptomatic and is detected during radiograph or laboratory testing for another complaint.

The Internet has potential to educate the public about health care, Kit also can harm through misleading and deceptive information.