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- Taurine, energy drinks, and neuroendocrine effects
Taurine is a major ingredient in popular energy drinks, but little is known about its neuroendocrine effects.
- Hiding in clear sight: Complications of immunosuppressive therapies
Immunosuppressive drugs can mask the signs of deep infection and thus delay its diagnosis.
- Minocycline-induced hyperpigmentation
The patient presented with extensive bluish skin discoloration that had started 1 year earlier as a small area and then spread.
- Phlegmasia cerulea dolens from radiation-induced venous stenosis
The patient had received pelvic radiation 10 years earlier for prostate cancer.
- Serotonin syndrome: Preventing, recognizing, and treating it
Serotonin syndrome can be easily overlooked, misdiagnosed, or exacerbated. Early recognition is critical.
- The peacock and the doctor
Of the seven deadly sins, the worst is pride—avoid a chauvinistic attitude when caring for international patients.
- Menopausal hormone therapy (August 2016)
A reader comments on menopausal hormone therapy (August 2016).
Left ventricular thrombosis can still complicate acute myocardial infarctionDespite revascularization, the next day the patient had an ejection fraction of 35% and a mass in the left ventricle.
- Influenza: Still more important than Zika virus in 2016–2017
Despite all the news reports, infl uenza still kills or hospitalizes more people than Zika.
- Breaking the pain contract: A better controlled-substance agreement for patients on chronic opioid therapy
Common limitations of current pain treatment “contracts,” and strategies to improve them.