Table of Contents
In this Issue
Medical Grand Rounds
- How to use low-molecular weight heparin for outpatient management of deep vein thrombosis
Outpatient use of low-molecular weight heparins requires careful planning and patient education. This article features an algorithm used at the Cleveland Clinic.
IM Board Review
- A 57-year-old woman with pulmonary infiltrates and eosinophili
What is the likely cause of this patient's symptoms? A self-test on a clinical case.
Review
- A common-sense approach to chronic fatigue in primary care
Chronic fatigue is a mystery. This does not mean that it is not real, or that physicians cannot help.
Pioneers in Medicine
- Sones-laws of clinical conduct
Remembering one of the fathers of modern cardiology, and the principles he lived by.
Review
- Review of newer contraceptive agents
The latest in oral contraceptives, injectable progesterone, subdermal progestin implants, progesterone-releasing IUDs, emergency contraception, and male contraception.
Current Drug Therapy
- Inhibitors of tumor necrosis factor: New treatment options for rheumatoid arthritis
The treatment of autoimmune diseases took a big step forward recently with the release of new drugs that target one of the key cytokines in the inflammatory process. With an illustration showing how the new drugs block tumor necrosis factor.
Infectious Disease Alert
- Listeriosis: Recognizing it, treating it, preventing it
Listeria monocytogenes has become a major pathogen in foodborne illness. In listerial meningitis, the most common manifestation, the mortality rate exceeds 20%.
