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- An overview of immune hemolytic anemias
Often patients with these anemias present with symptoms that are common in anemia of any cause. A full-color illustration shows the different processes of red blood cell destruction.
- Detecting and managing subclinical hyperthyroidism
With physicians using TSH assays more often, they are encountering subclinical thyroid disease more frequently.
- Cancer and the mind: Separating fact from fiction
It is quite appropriate for physicians to encourage cancer patients to join support groups. However, these patients should not blame themselves or their emotions for causing the cancer.
- Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure
The JNC VI report updates the standard of care in hypertension, advising physicians to be more diligent in lowering blood pressure, especially in patients with known risk factors.
- Chronic lymphocytic leukemia: A brief review
CLL, the most common type of leukemia, is often discovered incidentally when a routine complete blood count is performed. This paper reviews the pathology, diagnosis, and treatment of CLL.
- Protoivpump inhibitors for gastric acid-related disease
Proton-pump inhibitors are the most effective drugs for suppressing gastric acid production. Concerns over potential ill effects of hypergastrinemia have proved unfounded.