Figure 3A number of factors heighten the risk of parasitic infections in elderly persons, who often live in communal settings (eg, nursing homes), where they are more likely to encounter parasites, such as...
<p>A growing number of clinical outcome studies have shown that home and 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure measurements are better predictors of future cardiovascular events than blood pressures...
<div id="article-content-body"><p>We advise our patients with constipation to drink 500 to 750 mL of water with freshly squeezed lemon juice on arising in the...
<div id="article-content-body"><p>Removing foreign objects from a toddler's nose is usually a challenge, since the child typically refuses to let the clinician get close enough to...
William J. Brady, MD; Richard A. Harrigan, MD; Theodore Chan, MD
<p>A 68-year-old woman with hypertension complains of intermittent dyspnea and light-headedness. She is asymptomatic during the evaluation.</p>
<p>I work with frail, elderly patients who generally have few—if any—living relatives. During their initial physical evaluation, I always ask them if they have any pets; then I spend time discussing...
<div id="article-content-body"><p>Patients often fail to reap the full benefit of corticosteroid nasal sprays because they do not use these devices correctly. </p></div> ...
Ronald N. Rubin, MD; Nevena Damjanov, MD; Elizabeth Dunphy, OCN, CRNP; Darilyn Moyer, MD
Primary HIV infection causes a flu-like syndrome whose symptoms include fever, sore throat, fatigue, adenopathy, headache, rash, and arthralgia or myalgia.
Matthew J. Letizia, DO; Marcin K. Kociuba, DO; James Lundy, DO
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<p>Several hours after striking his closed fist against the side pillar of a passenger car, a 28-year-old man presented with acute pain and swelling of...
<div id="article-content-body"><p>The greatly increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) and its sequelae in patients with diabetes demands that all modifiable risk factors be...
Michael R. Kaczanowski, MD; Frank S. Sammarco, MD; Claudia B. Gruss, MD
<div id="article-content-body"><p>An 83-year-old man with a history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and diverticulosis was hospitalized because of painless hematochezia of 1...
