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This radiograph from a 53-year-old woman revealed esophageal stricture with proximal dilatation in addition to pneumoperitoneum. Pneumatosis cystoides intestinalis (PCI) was diagnosed.

For this young physician in India, reading an article on physician suicide was “the best thing” in his day. There is one thing, he says, that keeps him moving forward.

Bumps on the face; opioids and alcohol; dysmorphic facial features in 6-month-old boy . . . questions on these and other topics in this quiz.

In the avalanche of articles that came across your desk in 2014, were there one or two that struck you as particularly noteworthy? Cast your vote here.

While demonstrating his retro dance moves, a 31-year-old injures his knee doing “the Twist.” Now he can barely walk. Would you order an x-ray?

An occult fracture in the knee is most often a nondisplaced lateral tibial plateau fracture.

My friend has lung cancer, writes this physician. I am getting in the habit of joining him at his visits. But you shouldn’t need to bring along a doctor to protect you from your doctors.

A new study found that alcohol was involved in more than 20% of both opioid- and benzodiazepine-related deaths reported to the Drug Abuse Warning Network in 2010.

This hypersensitivity reaction may be secondary to medications, infection, collagen-vascular disorders, or an occult malignancy. When it is localized to the skin, prognosis is excellent.

What does a broken “clock gene” have to do with Alzheimer disease? Does shift work cause heart disease? Who shouldn’t be given Zolpidem for sleep? Nocturnal problems from A to Z fill round 3 of our Sleep Disorders quiz.

The older the age at which self-reported sleep disturbance was indicated, a Swedish study found, the higher the risk of Alzheimer dementia.

Here are 5 photos of non-healing ulcers: can you make the diagnosis?

Dyspnea and blood-streaked sputum; severe URI followed by rash; chronic pain; Lemierre syndrome . . . how well will you do on this quiz?

Sleep disorders can cause comorbid ills and many medical conditions can disturb the yin-yang of sleep and waking. Take our sleep quiz to find out what you know about which comes first.

The neuroscience is clear-you can’t possibly get good at multitasking. It’s a myth. Rather than keep trying to improve the “skill,” why not try something different. Read on . . .

I treated my young patient with asthma "by the book" and alienated his mother as I did so. I didn’t have the time to really listen to what she really needed from me.

It's not a new formula, but the study was large and the results significant: almost 4 of 5 MIs may be preventable in men who adhere to 5 healthy habits we're all familiar with.