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Caring for women with HIV: Unique needs and challengesFertility, pregnancy, contraception, and aging must be taken into account.
- Six screening tests for adults: What’s recommended? What’s controversial?
Guidelines for screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm and cancers of the colon, cervix, lung, breast, and prostate.
- A 61-year-old man with fluctuating hypertension
In this patient with diabetes, an episode of hypoglycemia led to an unexpected discovery.
- Does massive hemoptysis always merit diagnostic bronchoscopy?
The procedure can control the airway, find the source of the bleeding, and in some cases stop it.
- Why are we doing cardiovascular outcome trials in type 2 diabetes?
Lowering blood glucose alone may not reduce adverse cardiovascular events.
- Diabetes management: More than just cardiovascular risk?
Inadequate glycemic control remains the leading cause of blindness, kidney failure, and nontraumatic lower-limb amputation.
- Terry nails in a patient with chronic alcoholic liver disease
His fingernails had a distal thin brown-pink transverse band, a white nail bed, and no lunula.
- Diabetes therapy and cancer risk: Where do we stand when treating patients?
Several classes of diabetes drugs are under scrutiny for potentially promoting cancer in a population already at risk.
- To dream the maybe possible dream: A breast cancer vaccine
The work is in an extremely preliminary phase, but the concept is an active area of research worth keeping tabs on.
- Bench-to-bedside challenges in developing immune protection against breast cancer
A vaccine against breast cancer is being developed. Here, the author explains the principles and challenges.