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Pharmacogenomics promises the opportunity to match the right drug and dose to the right patient. We are not there yet, but the day is coming.

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals experience health care disparities that will be eliminated only if clinicians elicit information in a thoughtful, nonjudgmental way.

This condition occurs in 10% to 15% of patients with acute myeloid leukemia and is a poor prognostic sign.

Six months ago she started to have panic attacks that roused her from sleep. Lately, they have become more frequent and more severe. What is the cause?

Personalized medicine promises to improve the quality and lower the cost of care if physicians integrate into practice useful new findings, such as information gleaned from pharmacogenomic testing.

Knowing their patients’ genetic status, physicians could predict their response to certain drugs, such as clopidogrel (Plavix), warfarin (Coumadin), tamoxifen (Nolvadex), codeine, and psychotropic medications.

Treatment focuses on controlling the heart rate, preventing thromboembolic events, and, depending on symptoms, restoring and maintaining sinus rhythm.

Giant cell arteritis is the most common form of vasculitis affecting older people. Physicians should be familiar with its variety of clinical presentations.

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