Preventive Care
- ‘Guidelines to Practice’ series: Asthma in adults
A clinically useful summary, highlighting the practical and newer conceptual aspects of the guidelines.
- Outpatient management of asthma in adults: A snapshot of the 2020 GINA report
A review of the guidelines, with a focus on what’s new and clinically important.
- Promoting physical activity in older women to maximize health
The optimal type, intensity, and level required to achieve specific health outcomes depend on the disease the patient and clinician are trying to prevent or manage.
- Heightening awareness of blistering disorders
The spectrum of associated disorders ranges from annoying to life-threatening.
- Medical complications of bulimia nervosa
Complications can affect all body systems, but especially the renal and electrolyte systems.
- Prostate cancer screening
The costs of PSA testing—both financial and to the patient’s well-being—are not worth it.
- In Reply: Prostate cancer screening
The debate about screening remains fraught, and passions run high on both sides.
- CABG: When, why, and how?
The surgery has developed beyond a “cookie-cutter” generic cardiac operation.