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- Ultrasound and alendronate: New tools for osteoporosis screening and treatment
Ultrasound should make osteoporosis easier to diagnose, and alendronate should make it easier to treat.
- Enthusiasm for ultrasound for osteoporosis screening is premature
Ultrasound shows promise for osteoporosis screening, but before the medical community embraces it, many questions need to be answered.
- Upper gastrointestinal bleeding in a 41-year-old woman
What is the likely cause of this patient’s symptoms? A self-quiz on a clinical case.
- Hepatitis C update: Implications of the blood transfusion “lookback”
In the coming years, physicians will have to inform up to 300,000 blood recipients that they may have contracted hepatitis C.
- Newer management options in patients with spinal metastasis
For some patients with spinal metastasis, new surgical options can prolong survival and immediately improve function. With an illustration that explains the new treatment options.
- A 40-year-old woman with a “windmill” pattern of sensory disturbance
What is the likely cause of this patient’s symptoms? A self-quiz on a clinical case.
- Pelvic inflammatory disease: The importance of aggressive treatment in adolescents
PID and its major sequelae of tubal scarring, chronic pelvic pain, and infertility are preventable if physicians diagnose it early and treat it aggressively. With an illustration explaining why adolescents are at greater risk for PID.
- The cruel “cancer cure” hype
The unrealistic hopes raised by recent news reports of an impending cure for cancer were cruel to patients.