Latest Articles
- How to help your patients lose weight: Current therapy for obesity
Although weight-loss drugs won’t produce miracles, attempts at weight loss are worth the effort.
- The evolving role of hormone therapy in advanced prostate cancer
If the patient’s prostate-specific antigen level resumes rising after surgery or radiotherapy for prostate cancer, the next step is hormonal therapy.
- Tricyclic antidepressant poisoning
Tricyclic overdose—intentional or otherwise—is still common and can be lethal. Keep it in mind, and be aware of the pitfalls in its diagnosis.
- Treating acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis in the face of antibiotic resistance
With bacterial resistance on the rise, selecting the right antibiotic is crucial.
- A 42-year-old woman with polyarthritis
What is the cause of this patient’s symptoms? A self-test on a clinical case.
- If it ain’t broke, what are we trying to fix? Reprocessing devices labeled“for single use only”
A new FDA rule will enrich the manufacturers of medical devices and saddle us with another layer of bureaucracy. All to fix a nonexistent problem.
- Osteoarthritis: No cure, but many options for symptom relief
For most patients, management options consist of nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic therapy Disease-modifying drugs may be on the horizon.
- Vaginitis: Finding the cause prevents treatment failure
To diagnose and manage vaginitis, there is no substitute for performing a physical and microscopic examination.
