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Who should receive hepatitis A vaccine?Vaccination is recommended for overseas travelers, children, older adults, transplant recipients, patients with chronic liver disease, and others at risk.
- Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura-hemolytic uremic syndrome: Diagnosis and treatment
Prompt recognition of the condition and initiation of plasma exchange treatment are critical.
- A 67-year-old woman with sudden onset of chest pain and dyspnea
Questions and answers on the visible signs of diseases.
- Handheld computers are fun, sometimes even useful
“Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.”
- Systolic ejection murmur presenting with dyspnea on exertion
What is the cause of this patient’s cardiac symptoms A self-test.
- The dangers of self-monitored dieting: What are our patients really doing?
Patient-monitored diets often leave questions of adherence and safety unanswered.
- At what level of hyperkalemia or creatinine elevation should ACE inhibitor therapy be stopped or not started?
These drugs are a double-edged sword: they slow the decline in renal function in many patients, yet reduce renal function in some.
- Physician’s guide to popular low-carbohydrate weight-loss diets
These diets can take pounds off fast but usually fail in the long term and can jeopardize health.
