Latest Articles
- Multiple skin nodules in a 64-year-old woman
The nodules developed about 18 years ago, about 10 years after the onset of proximal muscle weakness and rash. What is the diagnosis?
- Why and how to prescribe exercise: Overcoming the barriers
To help patients start exercising and stay with it, clinicians should start by writing a prescription.
- Physician’s guide to the new 2005 dietary guidelines: How best to counsel patients
Health care providers can become agents of change and give patients practical suggestions for taking in fewer calories, being more physically active, and making wiser food choices.
- New Series
Each article begins with an actual case and focuses on how imaging should be used to establish or exclude a particular diagnosis, with emphasis on the care of the patient.
- Primary percutaneous coronary intervention for acute MI: Improving access and outcomes
Patients have a better chance of surviving an acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction if they undergo percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) rather than fibrinolytic therapy. Studies have addressed ways to improve PCI and to make it more accessible.
- The oracle of cough
About 18 months ago my wife began coughing. After a month or so, I naively wondered about the possibility of pertussis.
- A 35-year-old man with recurrent hoarseness
He has undergone laser photoresection of a tracheal mass three times in the past 2 years. What is the diagnosis?
