Latest Articles
- Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: An emerging public health threat
Three reported cases of S aureus with intermediate susceptibility to vancomycin raise fears that high-level vancomycin resistance may soon be seen. Physicians need to limit their use of vancomycin, and hospitals need to intensify their infection-control efforts.
- A 52-year-old woman with skin lesions and liver function abnormalities
The patient presents to her doctor with a pruritic rash of 6 weeks’ duration. What is the diagnosis and treatment?
- The uncertain role of immunosuppressive agents in Sjögren’s syndrome
Although Sjögren’s syndrome is an autoimmune disorder, immunosuppressive agents have yielded disappointing results in clinical trials.
- Medical McCarthyism: Medicare, teaching hospitals, and charges of health care fraud
Real fraud cannot be tolerated, but spurious fraud charges are equally intolerable.
- New drugs for reducing cardiovascular risk in women
Strategies to reduce cardiovascular risk in women, focusing on new drugs to treat diabetes and hyperlipidemia.
- Can the patient make treatment decisions? Evaluating decisional capacity
Evaluations of a patient's ability to make treatment decisions are common in everyday practice. Dr. Agich reviews the standards for evaluating decisional capacity.
- Do today's medical residents really have it better?
Despite changes designed to make medical education more humane, it is not easier to be an intern or resident today.