Latest Articles
- Diagnostic evaluation of the patient with coronary artery disease
Evaluation of patients with possible CAD involves balancing conflicting considerations, such as test sensitivity and accuracy, cost, and access.
- Enteropathic arthritis
A brief overview of intestinal diseases associated with arthropathy, including ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, dysentery, and Whipple’s disease.
- Management of kidney stones: how new technology has affected the indications for intervention
Now that stones can be treated noninvasively on an outpatient basis, intervention is often less expensive and more humane than to "wait and see."
- Issues in the diagnosis and management of malignant disease
Introduction to a new regular series of succinct reviews of cancer care relevant to non-oncologists.
- Management of variceal bleeding in the 1990s
Therapeutic options now include pharmacologic reduction of portal hypertension, endoscopic obliteration of varices, placement of decompressive shunts, and liver transplantation.
- Tales of a Gypsy Doc: perspectives on social and medical aspects of care of the American Gypsy Population
Understanding a patient’s culture and outlook is critical to any doctor-patient interaction, but perhaps especially so when dealing with the Gypsy population.
- Breaking the thrombolytic gridlock: insights from the GUSTO trial
The GUSTO chairman reflects on the study’s contributions to the current understanding of how to treat acute myocardial infarction.