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Any hospital contemplating using t-PA to treat acute ischemic stroke should draw up a plan whereby this drug can be given promptly but safely.

What is the likely cause of this patient’s symptoms? A self-test on a clinical case.

Both smallpox and anthrax could be used as biological weapons. Physicians should reacquaint themselves with these diseases.

A team-based strategy for creating guidelines that physicians will accept and use.

A recent study does not resolve the controversy about whether hormone replacement therapy causes breast cancer, but it gives us another reason for cautious optimism that this therapy is safe.

Aspirin is the cornerstone of therapy for unstable angina and acute myocardial infarction. Yet, in spite of clear data, it is often not given or given late. An accompanying illustration shows how antiplatelet drugs block the cascade of platelet aggregation.

The only way to preserve ambulatory function in patients with spinal cord compression due to spinal metastases is to recognize and treat it early, while the patient can still walk.