Conferences
Cardiovascular Medicine
Alcohol and Health: A Double-Edged Sword
Contemporary Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes
Cardiac Angiography with Computed Tomography: An Update and Critical Review
The Role of B-Type Natriuretic Peptide and NT-proBNP in the Diagnosis and Management of Heart Failure
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Endovascular Repair
Mitral Valve Repair
Optimal Treatment for Hypertension in Patients at Risk for Cardiovascular Disease: A New Perspective
Unstable Coronary Syndromes - A Current Update
A Rational Approach to the Diagnosis and Treatment of Narrow QRS Complex Tachycardias
Which Patient Should Be Considered for Carotid Artery Stenting?
Treating Stroke as a Neurologic Emergency: Thrombolysis, Antiplatelet Therapy and Acute Intervention
Atherosclerosis and Inflammation
The Role of Angiotensin Receptor Blockade in the Treatment of Heart Failure
Clinical Use of Semi-Synthetic Human Skin for Wound Healing
An Aggressive Approach to the Treatment of Acute Myocardial Infarction: Lessons from Recent Clinical Trials
Optimal Use of New Cardiac Markers in Patients with Chest Pain Syndromes
Selection of Stress Tests in Patients with Suspected or Known Coronary Heart Disease
New Developments in the Treatment of Unstable Angina
How Echocardiography Can Assist the Non-Cardiologist in Diagnosing and Managing Patients with Suspected or Proven Cardiovascular Diseases
Does Transcatheter Laser Myocardial Revascularization Have a Potential Role in the Treatment of Patients with Refractory Angina Who Are Not Considered Candidates for PTCA or CABG?
Optimal Treatment for Atrial Fibrillation
Management of Peripheral Vascular Disease: The Non-Healing Foot Ulcer
Cardiac Ablation Mania
Chest Pain Centers -- Real Innovation or Marketing Hype?
The Virtues of Reversal Treatment for Coronary Atherosclerosis
Should ACE Inhibitors Be Used in All Patients After Myocardial Infarction?
Surgical Mitral Commissurotomy: When Are Less Invasive Treatments Indicated
Evolution of Treatment for Acute Myocardial Infarction: What's In Store for 1997 and Beyond
Emergency Medicine
Carbon Monoxide Pathophysiology and Treatment
Pulmonary Embolism
Trauma in Pregnancy
Abdominal Pain in Women
Burns - Management
Eye of the Beholder
Male Urological Emergencies
Pediatric Patients
Rapid Sequence Induction
Bioterrorism II -- What Can You Do?
Bioterrorism and the Emergency Department
The Man with the Sore Throat
A Case of Upper Abdominal Pain and Vomiting
Headache in the Emergency Department
Myxedema Coma
EKG's in the E.R.
Ten Patients with X-Rays in Search of a Diagnosis
A Woman with an Acid-base Disturbance
A Tale of Two Visits
Traumatic Aortic Rupture
Sudden Collapse in a Young Person
Hyperthermia in a 51 Year-Old Male
A Return Visit to the ER
The Obtunded Man
Severe Flank Pain in a 20-year-old Male
Endocrinology
Extracellular Calcium and Calcium Sensing Receptors: Evolving Perspectives
The Treatment and Management of Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus – New Insulins and Delivery Systems
The Initial Diagnosis of Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus - A Case Report on a New Patient
Beyond Insulin: Incretins and Glucose Regulation
Hyperthyroidism in Pregnancy
The Thyroid in Pregnancy
"DM2C"
Insulin Therapy for Type 2 Diabetes
New Therapies for Type 2 Diabetes
Dilutional Hyponatremia: Can You Drink Yourself into a Coma with Water?
Non-Insulin Dependent Diabetes Following Gestational Diabetes on a Young Woman -- II
Non-Insulin Dependent Diabetes Following Gestational Diabetes in a Young Woman
Case Study: An Elderly Patient with Constipation and Weakness
Fat Distribution in Obesity
An Unusual Case of Hypoglycemia
Gastroenterology
Liver Fibrosis: New Mechanisms, New Treatments, and Why They Matter
Chronic Pancreatitis: Diagnosis and Management
Acute Pancreatitis: Diagnosis and Management
Gallstones: Complications and Management
Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) Tubes: Medical, Legal and Ethical Considerations for Patients and Physicians
Hepatitis C Virus and Hepatitis C Vaccine Development
Hemochromatosis and the HFE Gene - Phenotypic Correlation and Clinical Application
Travelers' Diarrhea (TD) 2000
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Gastro-esophageal Reflux Disease (GERD): The Spectrum of Esophagitis, Barrett's, Dysplasia and Cancer
Acute and Chronic Colitis: Changing Causes and Therapies
Peptic Diseases: Newer Therapies
Geriatrics
Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) in the Elderly
Erectile Dysfunction (ED) in the Elderly
Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) in the Elderly
Management of Hypertension in the Elderly
Development of Guidelines for the Use of Orexigenic Drugs in Long-Term Care
Exercise and the Elderly
Depression in the Elderly
Regulation of Appetite in Older Adults
Mr. B's Fall: Andropause
Osteoporosis Fractures of Spine: Treament with Vertebroplasty
Frailty
Hospice and Palliative Care
Prostate Cancer
Breast Cancer and the Older Woman
Sepsis
A Case of Recurrent Vertigo
Osteoarthritis
Sports Injuries in the Aging Athlete
Risk Factors for Atherosclerosis in Older Persons
Dehydration
Two Common Sports Injuries
Sleep Apnea
Anemia in the Elderly
Managing Pressure Ulcers: Practical Guidelines
Dysphagia
Falls and Fractures
Approaches to the Management of Cognitive Dysfunction
Treatment of Parkinson's Disease (PD)
Conundrums: The Ethics of Old Age
Constipation in the Elderly
An Unusual Cause of Syncope
Diabetes Mellitus in the Elderly
What's New in Medical Care in Nursing Homes: The Year (1997) In Review
Screening for Protein Energy Malnutrition
Dementia
Impotence
Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA)
Mrs. B's Fall: Urinary Incontinence
Mr. S.'s New Onset Falls
Mrs. A's Fall Following a Meal
Health Law/Bioethics
The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA): What It Does and Does Not Do and What It Means for Health Care Professionals
Medical Research Ethics: Standards and Issues
The Dark Side of Public Health
The Truth About Medical Malpractice
Consumer-Driven Health Care: Ethical and Legal Pitfalls
The Ethics of Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Striking Back
Off-Label Prescribing
Performance Enhancing Drugs in Sports
Legal and Ethical Challenges in Clinical Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Risky Doctors: Should Professionals Inform Patients?
HIPAA -- Part II: The Big Print and the Little Print
HIPAA -- Part I: Privacy Takes Center Stage
Should Providers Be Liable for Wrongful Prolongation of Life?
A Potentially Serious Threat to the Use of Practice Guidelines to Help Establish the Standard of Care
"I'm Sorry," But You Still May Be Liable
Patient Protections and the Supreme Court
The 2000 Presidential Race: Where the Candidates Stand on Health Care Issues
Medical Mistakes: Did the IOM Get It Right?
Should Physicians Disclose Economic Conflicts of Interest
A Paradox about the Duty to Refer
"Nutraceuticals": Do They Spell the End of FDA Regulation of Drugs?
Internet Medicine
Economic Motives for Physician-assisted Suicide: Part II
Economic Motives for Physician-Assisted Suicide
The Dilemma of Enhancement Medicine
Dependent vs. Independent Physician Alternatives
The Kyl Amendment
The Privacy of Medical Records: Emerging Issues
Withholding State of the Art AIDS Drugs From Non-Compliant Patients
Physician Liability for Consultations
Non-Heart Beating Organ Donors
Sexual Relationships with Patients
The Privacy of Genetic Information
Informed Consent
Legal Protections for Physicians in Managed Care
Managed Care and Physician Responsibility
Hematology/Oncology
Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) in the Elderly
Anti-EGFR Therapy: Incidence, Pathology and Management of Associated Side Effects
Dendritic Cell Immunotherapy
Treatment Options for Resistant Lymphoma
An Unusual Case of Lead Poisoning
To B12 or Not to B12
Genetic Counseling in a Patient with BRCA2 Gene Mutation
A Progressing Case of Multiple Myeloma
The Effect of Heparin on Cancer
Hypercoagulability
Prostate Cancer with Spinal Cord Compromise
Inflammatory Breast Cancer
Acute Intermittent Porphyria
Non-Small Carcinoma of the Lung
An Interesting Case of Pancytopenia
Multiple Myeloma
Testicular Cancer
Sickle Cell Anemia
Polycythemia Vera
Unexplained Thrombosis in a Young Man
Heparin Induced Thrombocytopenia
Parvovirus Infection: Hematologic Complications
Medical Genetics
Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Mammalian Olfaction
Molecular Genetics of Hemophilia: Current Concepts
Gene Therapy for Monogenic Diseases
The Genetics of Colon Carcinoma
The Genetics of Mental Retardation
Mitochondrial Fatty Acid Oxidation Disorders (FAOD)
Genetics of the Glaucomas
Inherited Peripheral Neuropathies
Contiguous Gene Syndromes
The Human Genome Project: Implications for the Clinician
Nephrology
Renal Transplantation: Immunity and Viral Infections
Palliative Care in ESRD
Diabetic Nephropathy
Bioartificial Kidneys: Potential Application in Renal Replacement
Organ Transplants for Geriatric Diabetic ESRD Patients?
Facing the Challenge of Treating Geriatric ESRD Patients
Does Timely Referral to a Nephrologist Alter ESRD Outcome?
Renoprotection: Proteinuria -- Villain or Victim?
The Management of Renal Failure
HIV and Kidney Disease
Diabetes and Kidney Disease
Managing Proteinuria in Progressive Diabetic Nephropathy
Erythropoietin in Progressive Renal Disease
Myths and Shibboleths in Nephrology -- Part IV
Myths and Shibboleths in Nephrology -- Part III
Myths and Shibboleths in Nephrology -- Part II
Myths and Shibboleths in Nephrology -- Part I
Hypertension: Examining the Case for Treatment
Hemodialysis in the United States: Embarrassment or Exemplary Success?
Hypertensive Nephropathy: Myth Unmasked or Reality Undocumented?
Pancreas Transplantation
The Provocative (and Non-Compliant) ESRD Patient
ESRD in Diabetes: Choice of Therapy
A Rare Systemic Complication of Uremia
Cadaver Kidney Survey
Justice, Equity, and Expedience in Cadaver Kidney Donor Allocation
Two Issues: Assessing Creatinine Concentration and the Co-Morbidity Index
The Racial Enigma
Perspective on Heroin Associated Nephropathy (HAN)
Replacing Renal Function with GI Nitrogen Extraction
Diabetes Management: Preventing Protein Denaturation
Nutrition
Vitamin C and Human Nutrition
Zinc Physiology and Therapeutics: Recent Insights
How Sweet It Is: Sweeteners in Health and Disease
Vitamin E Supplementation: What Should Health Professionals Tell Their Patients?
Vitamin K: The Last Frontier in Vitamins
Low Carbohydrate and High Protein Diets for Treatment of Obesity
Nutritional Management of the Patient with Acute Respiratory Failure
Soy and Menopause
Evaluation and Treatment of Iron Deficiency in Adults
Daily Protein Requirements in Various Populations: Healthy, Sick, Physically Active
Nutritional Management of the Cancer Patient Part II: Treatment
Nutritional Management of the Cancer Patient Part I: Nutritional Assessment
Clinical Implications of Vitamin B 12 Deficiency in the Elderly
Nutrition and Blood Pressure
Vitamin A, Retinoids and Carotenoids: What's the Bottom Line in 2001?
Preventing Colon Cancer: Does Diet Matter?
Comparison of Diet Claims
Management of Hyperlipidemia in the Elderly
Nutrition and the Immune System
Future Health Needs: Nutrition and Aging
Nutritional Issues of Clinical Concern in HIV Patients
Nutrition and Osteoporosis
The Medical Treatment of Lipid Disorders
Obesity: State-of-the-Art Update
Exercise, Nutrition and Health
Current Issues Related to Diet and Cardiovascular Disease
New and Exciting Clinical Implications of an Old Vitamin: Folate
Nutritional Support of Hospitalized Patients
A Lesson in Physiologic Versus Pharmacologic Doses of Nutrients
Nutritional Issues in and a Promising New Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
The Subtle Presentation of Vitamin B12 Deficiency
Ophthalmology
Ocular Lens Structure and Mechanisms of Cataract Formation: Part II
Ocular Lens Structure and Mechanisms of Cataract Formation: Part I
Uveitis
Glaucoma: Part II - Treatment
Glaucoma: Part I - Diagnosis
Psychiatry/Neuroscience
The Treatment of Insomnia
Sources and Consequences of Sleep Deprivation in Adults
Health Consequences of Sleep Loss
New Frontiers in the Treatment and Management of Smoking Cessation
Stress and Atopic Disorders: Asthma and the Seasonal Allergic Response
Protective and Damaging Effects of Mediators of Adaptation
How the Brain Responds to Acute and Chronic Stress: Role of Excitatory Amino Acids and Glucocorticoids
Dendritic Spines in Cognition and Neurological Disease
Glutamate Receptors in Epilepsy
NMDA Receptors and Ischemic Brain Injury
Memory and EAA Receptors
The Structure and Function of Glutamate Receptors
The Regenerative Potential of Neural Stem Cells
The Treatment of Neuropathic Pain
The Diagnosis of Neuropathic Pain
The Relevance of the Stress Cascade to Schizophrenia
Medical Complications of Eating Disorders
Anxiety Disorders
Stress, Serotonin Receptors and the Neurobiology of Depression
Effectiveness v. Efficacy
The Lasting Effects of Psychological Trauma on Memory and the Hippocampus
Weathering Hypothesis - Part IV
The Weathering Hypothesis - Part III
Weathering Hypothesis - Part II
The Weathering Hypothesis of Aging - Part I
The Neurobiology of Reward and Reinforcement Systems
Allostatic Load and the Brain: Wear and Tear Can Have Permanent Consequences!
Allostatic Load and the Immune System: Social Support Goes a Long Way!
Allostatic Load and the Cardiovascular System: How A Stressful Job Can Accelerate Coronary Heart Disease
Physician Brief Intervention: Helping Patients Change Unhealthy Behavior
When Too Little Is As Bad As Too Much: Stress, Disease and the Allostatic Response
Public Health
Infection Control
Malaria
Influenza and Pandemic Influenza: A Primer
Suicide Assessment, Intervention and Prevention
Road Traffic Injuries: A Global Epidemic
Addressing Unequal Treatment: Disparities in Health Care
The Role of B-Type Natriuretic Peptide and NT-proBNP in the Diagnosis and Management of Heart Failure
Diarrhea in a Pancreatic Transplant
Pulmonary Medicine
The Diagnosis and Management of Venous Thromboembolism
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
Nutritional Management of the Patient with Acute Respiratory Failure
Tuberculosis: Managing an Old Disease
Near-Drowning
Update on the Management of COPD
Diving Medicine
Smoking Cessation: New Approaches to Old Problems
Occupational Airway Diseases: Diagnosis and Therapy
Occupational Airway Diseases, Part I: Overview
Lung Reduction Surgery: Hope or Hype?
Programmed (Hereditary) Emphysema
Management of Asthma: The Letter and the Spirit of the New Guidelines
Diagnosis and Treatment of Asthma
Rheumatology
Parvovirus and Hepatitis C Virus Arthropathies
Diabetic Muscular Infarction
Intravenous Immunoglobulin Therapy in Rheumatological Disorders
Targeting B Cells in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
In Trials: Prospective Treatments for Rheumatoid Arthritis
Atherosclerosis in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Sjogren's Syndrome
Scleroderma
New Therapies for Rheumatoid Arthritis
Vasculitis of the Central Nervous System
CAPS
Adult Onset Still's Disease
A New Serological Test for Rheumatoid Arthritis
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) Part II -- Novel Approaches to Therapy
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) Part I -- New Treatments for Mild SLE
Giant Cell Arteritis
The Laboratory Diagnosis of Lyme Disease
Fibromyalgia Syndrome
The New Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory Drugs Are Coming - Are You Ready?
Viscosupplementation for the Treatment of Osteoarthritis
What Causes Systemic Sclerosis? You Can Blame the Children or the Cytomegalovirus or Perhaps Both
DMARDS: Combination Therapy for the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis
What's New About Gout
The Anti-Phospholipid Antibody Syndrome
Frontlines of Rheumatoid Arthritis Research: The Evidence for an Ongoing Immune Response in the Synovial Membrane
A Primer on Joint Aspiration for the Primary Care Physician
The Antinuclear Antibody Test
Women's Health
Diagnosis and Treatment of Epithelial Ovarian Cancer
Targeted Therapies for Ovarian Cancer
Human Papilloma Virus and Cervical Cancer
New Frontiers in the Detection and Management of Osteoporosis
Female Infertility
Male Fertility/Infertility
HIV/AIDS in Women
Update on Emergency Contraception
Obesity and Infertility
Anxiety Disorders in Women
Fitting Raloxifene into the Hormone Replacement Puzzle
Screening for Colorectal Cancer in Women: Not Just a Man's Disease
Life Stage Approach to Women's Health
The Genetics of Breast Cancer
Emergency Contraception
Ask Us About ASCUS: The New Pap Smear Terminology
Tobacco and Women: Trends in the Habit, Strategies for Quitting
Coronary Heart Disease in Women
Primary Osteoporosis, a Major Health Problem for Women
Special Features
Oxygen Homeostasis in Health and Disease
The Molecular Basis of Anesthesia: Recent Advances in Our Understanding
Mind Body Medicine for Musculoskeletal Pain
Will You Still Need Me? The Health and Financial Security of Older Americans
Glaucoma: Part II - Treatment
Glaucoma: Part I - Diagnosis
Prevention of Nuclear Terrorism
Is Our Nation's Water System Safe from Terrorism?
What Everyone Should Know About Bioterrorism
Chemical Warfare Agents
Otitis Media
The Three M's of Medical Abortion -- Mifepristone, Methotrexate and Misoprostol
Bioterrorism - Scare Stories Can Be Dangerous to Our Health
HIPAA: What Is It and How Do You Comply?
Two Common Sports Injuries
Pancytopenia Associated with Influenza in an Adult
Clinical Use of Semi-Synthetic Human Skin for Wound Healing