<div id="article-content-body"><p>A patient with mild asthma recently brought in her "empty" albuterol inhaler and asked for a refill. I tossed the old inhaler on my desk and...
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<p>The cause of mid-abdominal pain and tenderness can sometimes be just a strained rectus abdominus muscle.</p>
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<p>A 49-year-old man presents with recurring facial pain of 6 months' duration. The pain initially occurred several times per week; it now occurs...
<div id="article-content-body">The association between asthma and pneumococcal disease has been suspected by many clinicians; however, formal investigations confirming an increased risk of...
Practitioners who work in nursing homes frequently face this dilemma. Currently, 2 sets of diagnostic, treatment, and surveillance criteria for UTIs in nursing home residents are available to provide...
Stephen J. Freedland, MD; Judd W. Moul, MD; John F. Ward, MD
<div id="article-content-body"><p><strong>ABSTRACT: Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) recurrence is the most common form of advanced prostate cancer. Salvage therapies may be...
Timothy H. Self, PharmD; Antoine T. Jenkins, PharmD; Carrie S. Oliphant, PharmD, BCPS
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<p>Amiodarone, a class III antiarrhythmic, has become the drug of choice for the management of supraventricular and ventricular...
An 81-year-old woman presented with a widespread pruritic eruption of 1 month's duration. She had hypertension but was otherwise healthy and was taking no new medications.
<div id="article-content-body"><p>In patients with chronic liver disease or coagulation disorders, nasogastric tubes may result in significant nasopharyngeal trauma and uncontrolled...
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<p><strong>ABSTRACT: Age-related changes that affect drug distribution, such as increased total body fat, decreased muscle mass, and decreased...
<div id="article-content-body"><p>If you notice labile thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) values in a patient receiving levothyroxine therapy for primary hypothyroidism, ask how he or...
<div id="article-content-body"><p>I have a 45-year-old patient who sweats constantly and severely, whether at rest or at work. He recently had valve repair for idiopathic hypertrophic...
The 2 most common infectious conditions in the general practice setting are herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection (type 1 and, less frequently, type 2) (Figure 1) and fungal disease.
