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- Treating populations rather than individuals: the subtle danger of managed care
Is managed care improving the quality of health care for populations at the expense of care for individuals?
- From serendipity to design: the evolution of drug development in oncology
Although the screening of natural products remains the major method of discovering new anticancer drugs, new techniques of computer-aided drug design and combinatorial synthesis will also play a role.
- The dilemma of evaluating and treating cancer of unknown primary site
In 5% to 10% of cancer cases, the initial presentation reflects metastases and not the primary lesion. How aggressively should one search for the tumor site?
- Gastric and intestinal dysmotility syndromes
Disorders of motility of the stomach and small intestine are quite common, and patients often present with a variety of nonspecific symptoms.
- Evaluation and medical management of female urinary incontinence
Urinary incontinence should not be accepted as inevitable. Primary care clinicians should take an active role in treatment.
- Clinical implications of the interaction between hypothyroidism and the cardiovascular system
Hypothyroidism frequently causes cardiovascular manifestations that can complicate treatment of both the hypothyroidism and any underlying cardiovascular disease.
- Managing latex allergy in patients and health care workers
Latex products we use every day may cause serious problems for patients and coworkers. Health care providers must develop a plan for protecting allergic patients and staff from latex exposure.
- The role of azole antifungal agents for systemic antifungal therapy
The azoles have not supplanted amphotericin B for managing most serious fungal infections, hut they offer alternatives in a variety of unique situations.
- Chronic disease management and managed care: specialists have an important role
In its current incarnation, managed care has a major flaw: it fails to address the health care needs of people with chronic disease.
- Chronic diarrhea in a 57-year-old woman with diabetes
A woman with a 20-yeer history of diabetes presents with episodic diarrhea. What is the diagnosis and treatment?