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- 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.
- Regularizing the approach to the irregularly irregular
We have more choices, more data, and more management algorithms, but still no panacea for atrial fibrillation.
- Kidneys have a lot of nerve
Renal denervation shows promise. But hypertension is a heterogeneous condition, and the patient’s underlying pathophysiology may dictate the response to this physiologically based therapy.
- Fire, skin, and fat: Inflammation, psoriasis, and cardiovascular disease
The connection between psoriasis and atherosclerosis is not well understood, but we should be vigilant about cardiovascular risk factors in these patients.
- Lung cancer screening: One step forward
I never expected, perhaps naively, that cancer screening would be so challenging and contentious.
- Examine before ordering: An algorithm unchanged by new tests
I have always been irked when doctors reflexively order panels of immunologic tests when evaluating patients with “arthritis.”
- Exploring the human genome, and relearning genetics by necessity
The field of medical genetics continues to advance far beyond what many of us were exposed to in medical school.