Volume 54 - Issue 2 - February 2014

A college senior visits the office to seek knowledge and advice regarding on an upcoming summer of volunteer work in Africa.

More than 30% of adults in the United States have hypertension, although more of the cases are uncontrolled than are controlled.

Healthcare professionals should consider why people do not take their diabetes medications and what happens when they discontinue the drugs.

It is much more important to have a balanced diet for the long-term instead of relying on a short-term plan to lose weight.

With a growing number of obese people in the United States, healthcare professionals are seeking the best way to treat the epidemic.

A 69-year-old man seen because of a pruritic pretibial rash of 3 months' duration.

The introduction of statin therapies has helped healthcare professionals treat patients with cardiovascular disease.

At the 2013 Cardiometabolic Risk Summit, the importance of diagnosing and treating prediabetes was discussed.

Primary care has made a significant impact on the prevention of cardiovascular disease—to the tune of 1.1 million deaths averted between 1970 and 20101—but diabetes is on the rise globally and health care...

This 48-year-old female presented for evaluation of tender lesions on her left arm of 5 days duration. She denies any exposure history. She has been taking ibuprofen as needed for muscle pains or headache ...

This 68-year-old female presented with a sore lesion on her left arm of 5 days duration.

A 53-year-old Asian male presented with a 3 week history of a pruritic rash over his entire body.

A 16-year-old male presents with 3 weeks of painful, pruritic, peeling hands.

A 34-year-old male presented with itchy lesions on the ankles, wrists, and dorsa of hands.

Dyspnea in adults—whether acute (minutes to a few days) or chronic (weeks to months or longer)—is a common diagnostic challenge, forcing the physician to be perceptive to clinical clues.

A 22-year-old Hispanic male inmate with no remarkable past medical or social history presented to our hospital with a persistent, diffuse, erythematous eruption.

For doctors, life is a learning experience. It entails learning how to deal with insurance companies and hospital personnel, as well as reading journals and completing CME. But it is so much more—it is...

A 25-year-old female presented with a 10-year history of intermittent black secretions from bilateral malar cheeks.

A 20-year-old young woman presented to the emergency department with a 4-day history of sudden-onset pain and tightness in her lower chest.

The advent of a variety of methodologically new antithrombotic agents has provided clinicians with important choices to make when selecting treatments for commonplace syndromes, such as atrial...

A collection of photo-based cases on embolisms.

This article will review the pathophysiology of hypoandrogenism, evaluating and diagnosing the condition, and the options for treating this common medical problem with testosterone replacement therapy. ...

This article provides an overview of acne vulgaris, with a focus on inflammatory and post-adolescent acne, and outlines a framework that primary care physicians can use to effectively treat these patients. ...

Having determined to go to Africa as a medical missionary rather than as a pastor, Schweitzer began the study of medicine at the University of Strasbourg in 1905.

The CDC estimates that 600,000 people die from heart disease in the United States every year—which translates to cardiovascular disease accounting for 1 in every 4 deaths.1 While the statistics are...

A 47-year-old Caucasian female was seen for the first time in a primary care clinic for multiple emergency room visits for atypical chest pain.