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The primary care physician is often asked to deal with foot pain. This issue covers many of the common chronic and acute conditions that plague patients and provides differential diagnoses and therapeutic approaches.
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Sweeping new changes have been made to the guidelines for prevention of endocarditis in patients undergoing dental procedures.
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Men with migraine are at increased risk of myocardial infarction. But, risk of ischemic stroke is increased only in younger male migraineurs.
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Celiac disease is a cause of treatable inflammatory myopathy, and is easily diagnosed with serum antibody studies.
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Intracranial stenting is a promising new technology for secondary stroke prevention, but needs to be studied in a randomized trial against best medical therapy.
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Elderly patients with glioblastoma, who are independent in activities of daily living, will have a longer survival with good quality of life if treated with radiotherapy rather than supportive care, alone.
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Several CSF biomarkers, sphingomyelin, sphingomyelinase, ceramide, 4-hydroxynonenal, and vitamin E, are associated with the development of HIV dementia in patients being treated with highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART).