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- Protease inhibitors: promising new weapons against HIV
Protease inhibitors are the most potent drugs against HIV to date, but issues of cost, drug interactions, bioavailability, and resistance remain.
- Advances in cluster headache management
Cluster headache is often misdiagnosed, and, until recently, therapy was difficult. Verapamil has revolutionized treatment.
- Platelet transfusion therapy for medical and surgical patients
A discussion of the indications for platelet transfusions and factors that decrease their effectiveness.
- Benign prostatic hyperplasia: an approach for the internist
Paradoxically, the increase in treatment options for BPH is creating less certainty about which options to use. Some practical suggestions.
- An ounce of prevention…
Managed care could encourage cooperation between mainstream clinical medicine and public health.
- Physician job satisfaction: reversing the decline
How physicians can increase their happiness with their work.
- Idiopathic hypoparathyroidism in a blind, deaf, elderly woman with dementia
An unusual case, with a discussion of the issues in the diagnosis of dementia.
- Individualizing the treatment of gout
Treatment for gouty arthritis should be tailored to the patient's other medical problems. A typical case and review of the options.
- Recognizing and treating new and emerging infections encountered in everyday practice
The clinical presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of seven emerging infections that primary care physicians are likely to encounter.