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- ‘Dry drowning’ and other myths
Drowning is a common and often preventable cause of death, especially in children. But dry drowning is a myth.
- Optimizing calcium and vitamin D intake through diet and supplements
Set modest calcium targets, maximize dietary intake, and make up the defi cit with calcium citrate.
- How well do we understand calcium and vitamin D?
I do not believe we truly understand the ideal amount of dietary and supplemental calcium or vitamin D for a given patient.
Navigating travel with diabetesHelp patients plan ahead to manage diabetes while traveling and prepare for emergencies that may arise.
- ‘Non-criteria’ antiphospholipid antibodies and thrombosis (February 2018)
Readers comment on antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (February 2018).
- Training physician leaders to save the health system… and us
The success of the health system and the emotional well-being and clinical skills of its physicians are clearly interrelated.
- Aortic dissection presenting as ischemic limb
With surgical repair and blood pressure control, the patient recovered and left the hospital 1 week later.
- Is a detailed neurologic physical examination always necessary?
In medicine, we need all the help we can get.
- Hydroxychloroquine: An old drug with new relevance
This antimalarial drug is now approved to treat discoid lupus, systemic lupus erythematosus, and rheumatoid arthritis.
- Central nervous system lymphoma mimicking Bell palsy
Failure of presumed Bell palsy to improve should prompt an evaluation for an underlying condition.