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- Diffuse hair loss: Its triggers and management
Triggers include a wide variety of physical or emotional stresses, nutritional deficiencies, and endocrine imbalances. Finding the cause enables appropriate treatment.
- Soft tissue atrophy after corticosteroid injection
Although it is rare, patients still need to be told about this potential adverse effect.
- The resurgence of swine-origin influenza A (H1N1)
The health care system is mobilizing, while the world watches to see if this infection will become a pandemic or will just fade away, like the swine flu outbreak of 1976.
- Bone density vs bone quality: What’s a clinician to do?
Denser bone is not necessarily stronger. The concept of bone strength has moved beyond density alone and now includes a number of characteristics collectively referred to as bone quality.