More articles from From the Editor
- Guidelines or a plea for help?
The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recently published a guideline on the use of calcium and vitamin D supplements to prevent fractures in adults. I agree with two-thirds of their recommendations.
- A review of uncommon swelling provides useful reminders
Angioedema and the urticarias differ in their clinical manifestations and diagnostic and therapeutic implications.
- Resistance of man and bug
Why individual clinicians make specific decisions usually can be sorted out. But our behavior as a group is more difficult to understand—and to alter.
- Introducing two new deputy editors
Women’s health expert Pelin Batur, MD and hospitalist James Pile, MD join the Journal staff, replacing Tim Gilligan, MD.
- A weirder than weird story, and yet…
Fecal microbiota transplantation is an evolving story that may seem weird but is worth following.
- A guideline is like a prescription
We should not worship the idol of guidelines alone, but neither should we ignore them and make decisions based only on anecdote and experience.
- Autism in the office
To many, the image of autism is of a cute sandy-haired boy reciting the batting averages of baseball players. But the spectrum of autism is wide.
- Why not a shot of prevention?
Last year the flu season was surprisingly mild, but this should not lull us into a lackadaisical approach to offering vaccination to all of our patients.
- Home testing: The metamorphosis of attitudes about HIV infection
Most of us have not spent the past 25 years on the front line against the AIDS epidemic, but we all have been touched by it.
- The ‘T’ in ITP remains
The “I” has changed its meaning and the “P” is not necessary to make the diagnosis, but the disease formerly known as idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP) remains important to diagnose.