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This issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine is Guest Edited by Kristina Crothers, MD from the University of Washington and will focus on HIV and Respiratory Disease. Article topics include Abnormalities in Host Defense, Antiretroviral Therapy and Lung Immunology, HIV associated Pneumonia, HIV associated Tuberculosis, HIV associated lung malignancies, and HIV associated COPD.

This issue of Hospital Medicine Clinics, edited by Dr. Jesse Theisen-Toupal, covers topics including: Implantable Cardiac Devices; Aspiration Pneumonia and Pneumonitis; Norovirus and Infection Control, Dysphagia; Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura; Acute Urinary Retention; Intracranial Hemorrhage;...

Painful diabetic polyneuropathy is the most common and disturbing of painful conditions experienced by people with diabetes. As the diabetes rate continues to grow, the number of people suffering from painful diabetic polyneuropathy will as well – increasing both patient suffering and demands on...

This comprehensive book provides reviews of pain management complications that arise in clinical practice.  Organized into sections focused on types of pain therapy and procedures, each chapter is based on actual complications; starting with a case description that delineates the context with a short...

Pass Finals is a notes-style summary of the key facts to know for the diagnosis and management of important diseases. The book relates to Kumar & Clark's Clinical Medicine, and it's synoptic approach is intended to help time-poor students with revision for final exams in medicine. Information...

This issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine is Guest Edited by Ali Musani, MD, FCCP, FACP, at National Jewish Health and will focus on Interventional Pulmonology. Article topics include flexible and rigid bronchoscopy, trachael stenosis, gene therapy, airway stents, EBUS-TBNA / Staging of lung cancer,...

Sickle cell anemia is the most common form of sickle cell disease (SCD).SCD is a serious disorder in which the body makes sickle-shaped red blood cells.Sickle-shaped means that the red blood cells are shaped like a crescent.Sickle cells contain abnormal hemoglobin called sickle hemoglobin or hemoglobin...

This new online Clinics series, Hospital Medicine Clinics, provides evidence-based answers to clinical questions the practicing hospitalist faces daily.  This second issue in our growing online database covers essential updates in the management of class III and IV heart failure; pulmonary hypertension;...

This issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, guest edited by Seymour Katz, MD, is devoted to Gastroenterology. Articles in this outstanding issue include Constipation: Understanding Mechanisms and Management; Vaccination status/Prophylaxis with GI Diseases; Reflux and Acid Peptic Diseases in Elderly;...

Historically, clinical decisions in renal medicine have been challenged by the scarce availability of robust supportive evidence. Not only are the number of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in Nephrology the third lowest amongst the medical specialties but in many instances the trials themselves...

The Bloomsbury Series in Clinical Science is growing and changing. Its Editorial Board and contributors were all originally selected from, or had links with, the University College and Middlesex School of Medicine. Now, as the Series develops, board members and con­ tributors alike identify with...

to Medical Manipulation John K. Paterson, MB. BS. MRCGP currently Vice-President and Han. Secretary of the British Association of Manipulative Medicine and member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the International Federation of Manual Medicine and Loic Burn, BA. MRCS. LRCP. DPhysMed currently...

Neck and back pain are common symptoms which vary from the trivial to the incapacitating. Conventional medical textbooks concentrate disproportion­ ately on those causes which have clear-cut diagnostic patterns and pathological features demonstrable by investigations. Discussions of treatment often...