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- Maximizing response to erythropoietin in treating HIV-associated anemia
A number of treatable factors can impair the response to erythropoietin in HIV patients.
- A young woman with fever, headache, and lymphadenopathy
What is the cause of this patient’s symptoms? A self-test on a clinical case.
- Trends in hospital medicine: Hospitalist advantages revealed
Available data indicate that hospitalists reduce health care costs while providing care of at least equal quality to that provided by primary care physicians.
How should hyperuricemia be treated in a patient with allopurinol hypersensitivity?If other methods of lowering uric acid fail, desensitization to allopurinol is an option but poses serious risks.
- New cholesterol guidelines: Better, but harder to follow
The new guidelines on lowering cholesterol are good in theory but may prove cumbersome in practice.
- Using the new cholesterol guidelines in everyday practice
Many more patients have become candidates for lipid-lowering therapy under new guidelines recently released.
- Recognizing and treating social anxiety disorder
Consider this diagnosis when a patient avoids social situations because of marked and persistent fear and anxiety.
- Does salmeterol increase mortality in patients with COPD?
Salmeterol is safe and FDA-approved, but it should be used only as part of a total program that includes education, smoking cessation, oxygen supplementation, and rehabilitation.
