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- Evolving concepts in the management of patients with neutropenia and fever
Chemotherapy recipients with neutropenia and fever need prompt antibiotic treatment to prevent sepsis. What are the pitfalls?
- Managing year 2000 (Y2K) compliance in the medical practice
Even if you do not have a computer, your office may have Y2K-related problems.
- Multicentric reticulohistiocytosis: A mimic of gout and rheumatoid arthritis
Multicentric reticulohistiocytosis can be mistaken for several more-common forms of arthritis, but you can usually confirm the diagnosis on the basis of the characteristic cutaneous, radiographic, and histologic features.
- Thalidomide’s tightly controlled “comeback”
A drug that was banned 40 years ago because of its potential for causing serious birth defects has found new uses—with strict safeguards.
- Beta2-microglobulin amyloidosis in renal failure: Understanding this recently recognized condition
Most long-term dialysis patients eventually acquire amyloid deposits, with resultant musculoskeletal problems. Yet, the condition was recognized only recently.
- New technology and new challenges for assisted reproduction
With advances in the science of reproduction come more options, and more ethical dilemmas.
- The Hypertension Optimal Treatment Trial
In hypertensive patients, low-dose aspirin proves beneficial, but more-aggressive blood pressure treatment falls short—except in persons with diabetes.