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This post draws from a talk given by Prescott Woodruff, MD, MPH at UCSF's 17th annual hospital medicine conference . Asthma subtypes The...

I found particularly interesting in this review the list of destructive games played between doctors and patients: Wooden leg Possessing...

Metformin wins, sulfonylureas lose. From a recent study : Methods We identified new users of oral hypoglycaemic medication monotherapy ...

Here is a recent review . The new classification removes the category formerly known as ALI. The definition also removes the quantitative a...

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TC), in our current understanding, is a disorder of catecholamine myocardial toxicity. Early descriptions attribu...

Though there is a relative lack of high level evidence regarding this condition we do know that it differs in important ways from VTE in the...

These are a few pearls from a talk by S. Andrew Josephson MD at UCSF's 17th annual hospital medicine conference . Dementia with Lewy bod...

It's something people don't want to talk about. For that matter neither do I, so just go and read this .

There are limited data, summarized in a recent review : Purpose of review The use of noninvasive positive pressure ventilation (NPPV) is...

We've learned a great deal since the outbreak in the Four Corners region in 1993. Full text here .

It is increasingly appreciated that a positive ANCA and various associated clinical manifestations can be associated with certain drugs. Fr...

Long QT, Brugada syndrome and short QT can be induced by drugs and the topic is covered in this review . Both cardiac and non cardiac drug...

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Here's a Mayo Clinic series . The disease is rare. Diagnostic delay is characteristic because when the disease is encountered it tends...

Hospitalists encounter this situation all the time when chest CTs are done for other reasons. A nice summary post at ERCAST addresses the ...

This is actually a case report of PRIS treated with ECMO but attached is a nice mini-review of the condition. The pathophysiology is comple...

Understanding of this association has increased in recent years. Here is an update , which contains several pearls. Free full text.  

As compared to conventional dosing it appears to be associated with a marked reduction in mortality in Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections: ...

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Several members of the panel disagreed with portions of the JNC 8 guidelines and expressed their concerns in this article in the Annals of I...