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- Self-monitoring of blood glucose: Advice for providers and patients
Self-monitoring provides essential data and also motivates patients. A certified diabetes educator can help.
- Pseudomembranous colitis: Not always Clostridium difficile
Other causes include other infections, ischemia, medications, and inflammatory mucosal diseases.
- Hordeolum: Acute abscess within an eyelid sebaceous gland
Chalazion and hordeolum are similar in appearance and often confused.
- Measles: Back again
The disease is serious and highly contagious. Vaccination is safe and should be strongly promoted for healthy children.
- Allergen-specific IgE serologic assays define sensitization, not disease (January 2016)
A reader comments on serum IgE testing for allergy (January 2016).