Preventive Care
- Confusion and hypercalcemia in an 80-year-old man
His total serum calcium level is 14.4 mg/dL. What is the cause?
- Life after breast, prostate, and colon cancer: Primary care’s role
When patients survive cancer, they eventually come back to their primary care physician—with special needs.
- Thoughtful vaccination
Vaccination against the varicella-zoster virus reduces the likelihood of shingles and postherpetic neuralgia.
- Preventing herpes zoster through vaccination: New developments
Because protection wanes by 10 years, a booster dose may be necessary but is not yet recommended.
- Black hairy tongue cured concurrently with respiratory infection
Proposed causes include medications, hyposalivation, poor oral hygiene, smoking, and infection.
- ERAAs for menopause treatment: Welcome the ‘designer estrogens’
These drugs stimulate estrogen receptors in some tissues and inhibit them in others, enabling tailored treatment.
Breast cancer screening: Does tomosynthesis augment mammography?This technology may reduce recall rates and increase cancer detection rates, but outcome studies are needed.
- Living with hematologic cancer: Recommendations, solutions
Once-terminal diagnoses are now chronic conditions. Survivors need a plan.