Latest Articles
- Diagnosing and treating hallux valgus: A conservative approach for a common problem
For most patients with hallux valgus, the problem is caused by wearing shoes that are too tight. How to evaluate and treat this problem, and when to refer to an orthopaedic surgeon.
- Assessing and minimizing reproductive risks of cancer chemotherapy
Now that more children and young adults are surviving malignant diseases, a new problem is arising: the reproductive effects of intensive chemotherapy.
- Ethical perspectives on Jehovah's Witnesses’ refusal of blood
Jehovah's Witnesses are not antimedicine, but do refuse blood transfusions and blood products. How to deal with the treatment dilemmas this can create.
- Travel medicine for the primary care physician
Reviewing the potential risks and how to avoid them greatly enhances the chances of an uneventful trip.
- Carvedilol for heart failure: Renewed interest in beta blockers
The idea of using beta blockers to treat heart failure seems counterintuitive. But Carvedilol is changing that thinking.
- Low back pain: Living with ambiguity
Ambiguity is a fact of life in treating acute low back pain, frustrating physicians and patients alike.