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This free full text review focuses on the pulmonary manifestations but also covers the disease in general.

Stress ulcer prophylaxis, generally with a PPI, has long been an in house performance measure in many institutions, but the p...

This is a growing concern and was recently reviewed here . From the review: Recent findings: Recent evidence sugge...

This paper was highlighted in ACP Hospitalist Weekly as an important study and although it is the first time thrombocytope...

From a recent prospective cohort study : Purpose The Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) and the Global R...

In patients with stroke mimic one would expect a lower incidence of head bleed as compared to patients with actual stroke bec...

From a recent paper : Background In clinical practice, we progressively rely on biomarkers, without estimati...

Although we typically think of a pentad of manifestations of TTP and, in fact, have a treatment threshold consisting of micro...

From a recent review : Treatments for primary aldosteronism (PA) aim to correct or prevent the deleterious consequen...

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The adverse effects of sulfonylureas on macrovascular disease have been known for decades. Now we have this : Method...

Sometimes it is better for the patient and more intellectually honest to not force a diagnostic label and just acknowledge un...

I found this interesting report from the American Journal of Emergency Medicine: Conclusions Veterans Healt...

Here's another “systems improvement” initiative that didn't work. From a recent paper : Importance The eff...

An article on this topic recently appeared in The American Journal of Emergency Medicine. The paper focused on the post car...

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Linked here are two great review articles. This one addresses such questions as “What are the differences between warm and ...

From the paper : Using Medicare claims from 2009 through 2013 and a difference-in-differences design, we compared ch...

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