
Primary care physicians can play an expanding role in achieving the benefits of testing, care, and treatment to help stem the epidemic.

Primary care physicians can play an expanding role in achieving the benefits of testing, care, and treatment to help stem the epidemic.

Our short quiz tests your basic allergy IQ as well as what you might not know about emerging therapy.

Use this short test to gauge how much you’ve learned about a condition that needs more primary care involvement.

Preventing further acute attacks and decreasing the tophi burden becomes a secondary goal.

Primary care can do more to help reduce gout morbidity, says a new review-plus 4 more studies on gout treatment and prevention.


A young cardiology fellow reveals in a letter to his patients that it was being privy to their vulnerability that allowed him access to his own.

The faster the attack is recognized and treated with medications, the easier it is to control.

Clinical presentation, history, and laboratory evaluation can make a diagnosis of gout, but crystal examination is the “gold standard.”

How to regulate “the king of diseases and the disease of kings” is this Patient Care Special Report's domain.

This 12-year-old boy has had asymptomatic swellings over multiple knuckles all his life. How would you explain the condition to him?

What is the plant most likely responsible for these symptoms and how would you treat?

Turns out, older age may have its advantages when it comes to coping with HIV infection.

Does treatment for older men have beneficial effects for other health issues? Take this quick quiz to test your knowledge.

The devices may be simple and intuitive, but it may take more than a gadget to build optimal medication adherence.

At what point in a medical career do we allow identification with the sick and dying we treat to inform who we are?

The primary male sex hormone connects with a variety of health factors, and therapy could have positive effects. A quick look at 6 new studies.

Find out what you've learned after reading this month's Special Report articles on nonmelanoma lesions you may see in primary care practice.

The solitary, keratotic lesion has grown quickly over one month. Infection? Neoplasia? What else is in your differential diagnosis?
