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Move over, islet-cell loyalists. A brain-centered theory of diabetes pathogenesis has returned and is looking for cooperation.
A new retrospective analysis looks at the incidence of infection with common scourge Clostridium difficile in the specific context of HIV infection.
Helios is 80 years old and was given a diagnosis of HIV infection in 1994. He's still taking the same combination of work-horse antiretrovirals he started with. I wanted to talk about changes. Helios didn't.
The symptoms of a nervous system disorder often resemble those of other medical conditions or problems. Test your understanding and diagnostic skills here.
The young athlete is otherwise healthy but his ECG tracing and family history may suggest a different story.
In its classic form, ALS affects motor neurons at 2 or more levels supplying multiple regions of the body.
Mental illness is a risk factor for HIV infection. It brings a number of behavioral correlates that put patients at risk for getting infected. As HIV infection worsens, it begins to affect the brain, and cyclical relationship between the disease and mental illness begins.
Here, HIV/AIDS specialist, Dr. Susan Ball, answers 6 questions about HIV infection that primary care clinicians commonly ask.
When is it time to refer your patient with low back pain to a specialist for possible spine surgery? How long should you give conservative measures a try? What symptoms signal the need for urgent care? In this video, Raymond Haroun, MD addresses these and other pressing questions.
What is the relationship between common illnesses and depression? And why is the relationship so strong? What can clinicians do now to manage both the medical illness and the depression?
Simvastatin 40 mg once daily can attenuate increases in cardiorespiratory fitness in response to exercise training.
Recurrent C difficile requires pulse vancomycin therapy; fecal microbiota transplant shows promise.
A key finding: a primary physician’s healthy lifestyle behaviors may be linked to his or her recommendations for hypertension prevention.
