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Heart disease, stroke, and cancer are leading causes of death in men, but they present to primary care with a variety of other, often difficult-to-diagnose concerns. Take this week’s photo quiz to test your knowledge of men’s health issues.

A 20-year-old woman presents in mid-winter with a mildly painful, swollen, and discolored left toe of a week’s duration. What cause do you suspect?

A homeless man with lithophagia; hereditary trichoepithelioma; IBD mimics: can you answer this week's quiz questions about these and 2 other disorders?

This lesion in a previously healthy 40-year-old man, which was initially a small pustule, has enlarged into an open wound. What does this look like to you?

A 16-year-old boy had an asymptomatic, hyperpigmented, hairy lesion on his left upper back. What's your diagnosis?

I started kissing patients in med school. And I haven’t stopped.

Recent studies have linked obesity with a number of clinical concerns, ranging from kidney disease to pancreatic cancer to hearing loss in women.

Confusion about multiple insulin products; nonadherence to the prescribed regimen; the patient’s injection technique . . . here: a look at why errors occur when insulin is prescribed-and how to prevent them.

Four photos, 5 short real-life cases: can you solve these 5 diagnostic mysteries?

“My mother was diagnosed with incurable lung cancer. I made a comic strip about it.” The idea: combine the art with the medicine.

The use of vitamin D decreases pain in women who have type 2 diabetes mellitus and depression, according to a recent study, and more research is in the works.

A vaccine that is used to prevent TB may help prevent MS in persons who show the beginning signs of the disease, according to a new study.

A new retrospective analysis looks at the incidence of infection with common scourge Clostridium difficile in the specific context of HIV infection.

Helios is 80 years old and was given a diagnosis of HIV infection in 1994. He's still taking the same combination of work-horse antiretrovirals he started with. I wanted to talk about changes. Helios didn't.

Women who have post-traumatic stress disorder gain weight more rapidly than women who do not and are more likely to be overweight or obese.

Here: 5 cases submitted by your colleagues: see if you know what the findings in each case indicate.

". . . EHR usability represents a relatively . . . unique and vexing challenge to physician professional satisfaction.” The quote from study authors sums up the bulk of the sentiment-to-date.

Patients coinfected with hepatitis C virus (HCV) and HIV can develop rapidly progressive liver fibrosis.