Follow-up Colonoscopy: When Should This Patient Return?
Is a surveillance interval of 1 year, 3 years, 5, or 10 years recommended?
Diabetes News Quiz
Take this 3-question mini-quiz to see if you’re up-to-date on diabetes and breast cancer risk, gestational diabetes and depression, and sedentary time and diabetes development.
Esophageal Rings, Furrows, and Plaques: What Next?
These endoscopic findings help explain worsening dysphagia in a 32-year-old man. Esophageal biopsies prove positive for eosinophilia. How would you proceed?
Have You Heard This (Week's) News?
Oral Anticoagulation: Would You Recognize a Candidate?
What does the patient with atrial fibrillation who would benefit from oral anticoagulation look like today? Q & A, here.
Three questions for you about this week's breaking medical news on the risks of sitting still, diabetic eye disease, and antibiotics and insulin resistance.
Rapidly Fading Rash After Ski Weekend
This woman was snowboarding over a very cold weekend and developed a pustular rash at night after her activities.
Pigment Changes and Muscle Weakness
What condition is represented by inflammatory muscle disease, interstitial lung disease, Raynaud phenomenon, arthritis, and cutaneous manifestations, and in what rheumatologic diseases might you see it?
10-Year-Old With Infected Toe Laceration
The sutures that were placed after this boy cut his toe with a piece of glass were removed after the wound became infected. What’s going on?
13-year-old With Hyperpigmented Rash
This 13-year-old boy presents with hyperpigmented skin on his neck. He is 66.75 inches and weighs 232 pounds. Your suspicion?
Fecal Microbiota Transplant Has a 90% Cure Rate: T/F?
Stool transplant for C. difficile infection is becoming more popular. But, is the cure rate really 90%?
17-Year-Old With Recurring Rash
These discolored, scaly lesions on this young man’s trunk have recurred for the past 2 summers. He reports that the rash becomes “irritated and itchy” when he is in the sun.
Hyperemesis in a Young Woman: Diagnosis
Could repeated episodes of vomiting in this young woman be related to ingestion of a drug?
Hyperemesis in a Young Woman
For the past year, the patient has had episodes of severe nausea, vomiting, headache, and abdominal pain separated by weeks of feeling quite well.
Perioral Blistering and Crusting
A 32-year-old woman presents with recurrent episodes of lip swelling associated with massive, painful blister formation and crusting. What is this?
1-Year-Old With "Bullseye" Rash
This afebrile baby presents with a target-shaped, centripetal rash. He has been taking amoxicillin for 5 days for an ear infection.
Do You Accept Unvaccinated Children?