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- Diabetes management: More than just cardiovascular risk?
Inadequate glycemic control remains the leading cause of blindness, kidney failure, and nontraumatic lower-limb amputation.
- Women and HIV: An expanded perspective
HIV preys on the vulnerable. Testing is crucial. Pre-exposure prophlyaxis is an attractive concept but an incomplete solution.
- Acute respiratory distress syndrome: Implications of recent studies
A review of the new definition of this disease and new important studies of ventilatory and nonventilatory therapies.
- Miss the ear, and you may miss the diagnosis
A 52-year-old woman presented with pain, redness, and swelling in both ears, sparing the earlobes.
- Screening guidelines: A matter of perspective
Guidelines are only guidelines: we should use them within a personalized context.
Caring for women with HIV: Unique needs and challengesFertility, pregnancy, contraception, and aging must be taken into account.
- Diabetes therapy and cancer risk: Where do we stand when treating patients?
Several classes of diabetes drugs are under scrutiny for potentially promoting cancer in a population already at risk.
- To dream the maybe possible dream: A breast cancer vaccine
The work is in an extremely preliminary phase, but the concept is an active area of research worth keeping tabs on.
- Bench-to-bedside challenges in developing immune protection against breast cancer
A vaccine against breast cancer is being developed. Here, the author explains the principles and challenges.
- Keeping up with immunizations for adults
Flu, tetanus, measles, mumps, rubella, varicella, hepatitis A and B, human papillomavirus, zoster, pneumonia, and meningitis.