
For key facts and figures about musculoskeletal disorders, perhaps a surprise as the fourth leading diagnostic category in primary care, see the pages that follow.

For key facts and figures about musculoskeletal disorders, perhaps a surprise as the fourth leading diagnostic category in primary care, see the pages that follow.

What if you threw a Pap Party-and everybody came? Dr Pamela Wible provides step-by-step instructions on how to do it right.

NSAIDs may impair fertility in women with mild musculoskeletal pain. Damage is reversible once NSAIDs are discontinued, according to a new study.

Prices are increasing. How will this affect patient care?

Since January 2015, the FDA has approved more than a dozen drugs indicated for primary care diseases. Here, a quick slide update on 10 of them.

Here: 10 “sentences”-dissected from articles submitted by physicians to this Web site over the years and presented in unadulterated (and unedited) form-that we hope you’ll enjoy as much as we did.
At age 4 years, this young girl’s hair is falling out for the second time after growing back completely. She is otherwise healthy. Watch the video and make your diagnosis.

Nicotinamide may lower the incidence of new nonmelanoma skin cancers in patients at high risk for skin cancer, providing a new chemopreventive opportunity.

The association remained statistically significant even after adjusting for age, waist circumference, smoking, and other confounders.

One theory posited by the authors of a new study is that asthma patients may have an enhanced propensity for a CD4+ T-cell helper response.

Metabolic disorders in patients with diabetes place them at particularly high risk for CV morbidity. Find insights on Dx and Tx in these slides.

We don’t need to be any more resilient. Every part of a doctor is resilient. Even our bladders are resilient! We need training to become resistant.

The patient has had respiratory infections before but he has never experienced chest pain like this in the past. How would you work up this case?


The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists pushes back in response to FDA warnings that testosterone replacement therapy may increase cardiovascular risks.

X-rays offer no clue to the cause of dyspnea in this teen who cannot take a deep breath after crashed on his bicycle. Watch the short video, read the clues, and make your diagnosis.

With the recent obesity epidemic, cases of abdominal lipodermatosclerosis are increasingly observed.



“Quick, operate before the patient gets better” is one of those jokes surgeons tell among themselves, barely covering a hard truth: that a lot of elective surgery might be unnecessary or even harmful.