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The metabolic syndrome warrants aggressive intervention and prevention, even if we cannot explain it yet.

The 10% of patients with emphysema who never smoked deserve a workup for its less common causes, including genetic risk modifiers and occupational exposures.

Genotyping can distinguish viral subtypes that pose a high risk for cancer, but current therapies do not reliably eradicate the virus, and warts and neoplasia often recur after treatment.

Patients should be selected for bisphosphonate therapy on the basis of low bone density, not age.

Current diagnostic techniques and treatments offer results equal to or better than those of earlier methods, are less invasive, and allow patients to recover faster.

The best available treatment is to control one’s weight, exercise regularly, stop smoking, and eat a healthy diet.

Even before beta cells fail, the deadly quartet is quietly rehearsing.

“Treat early, treat hard” is changing to “treat a little later, treat hard.”

It should be given to all seronegative children and adults in whom it is not otherwise contraindicated.