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The new guidelines on lowering cholesterol are good in theory but may prove cumbersome in practice.

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

If other methods of lowering uric acid fail, desensitization to allopurinol is an option but poses serious risks.

Salmeterol is safe and FDA-approved, but it should be used only as part of a total program that includes education, smoking cessation, oxygen supplementation, and rehabilitation.

Questions and answers on the visible signs of diseases.

These drugs may slow but do not halt disease progression. They may be most beneficial if started early.

Many more patients have become candidates for lipid-lowering therapy under new guidelines recently released.

The manifestations of mitochondrial cycopathy are remarkably diverse, and the syndromes identified so far probably represent only a few of the disorders.

A number of treatable factors can impair the response to erythropoietin in HIV patients.

Consider this diagnosis when a patient avoids social situations because of marked and persistent fear and anxiety.

Available data indicate that hospitalists reduce health care costs while providing care of at least equal quality to that provided by primary care physicians.