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Can Opiates Be Administered by Nebulizer? Some clinicians are using nebulized morphine to treat pain and breathlessness in patients with COPD and CHF, but is there evidence to back that up?
Expert Viewpoint, May 2008
A Tale of Two Neisseria: Video Blog with Paul Auwaerter, MD, MBA It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. In the face of antimicrobial treatment resistance, what are the recommended changes in prescribing related to N. gonorrhoeae and N. meningitidis?
Expert Viewpoint, May 2008
Icyou: How Social Media Is the New Resource for Online Health Information Prerna Mona Khanna, MD, MPH, Medical Editor, Icyou.com, Charleston, South Carolina, describes another promising use of the health Internet.
Expert Viewpoint, May 2008
How to Treat Skin Infections, Including MRSA, in 2008 Erik Schraga, MD, with Stanford-Kaiser Santa Clara Emergency Medicine in California, explains the correct way to treat skin abscesses in 2008.
Editorial, May 2008
Patients: An Untapped Safety Resource Julia A. Hallisy, DDS, a dentist in San Francisco, California, teaches how patients can protect themselves.
Editorial, May 2008
CME Individualizing Antiretroviral Therapy on the Basis of Comorbidities and the Risk for Viral Resistance With improvement in HIV-related morbidity and mortality, risk for complicating conditions increases. What are the latest screening and treatment guidelines for naive and highly experienced patients?
Clinical Case, April 2008
CME CROI 2008: Pathogenesis and Immune Response to HIV Infection Here Drs. Mario Stevenson and Michael M. Lederman highlight the presentations from CROI 2008 regarding HIV pathogenesis and the immune response to HIV infection.
Conference Coverage, April 2008
CME CROI 2008: Epidemiology and Management Strategies for HIV and Its Associated Infections Drs. Gerald H. Friedland and Michael L. Tapper highlight presentations from CROI 2008 on TB, the epidemiology of HIV, its changing patterns of transmission, and the epidemiology of hepatitis and STDs.
Conference Coverage, April 2008
CME CROI 2008: Prevention Strategies and Response to AIDS Here Drs. Susan Buchbinder and Guy de Bruyn review the recent data from CROI 2008 dealing with HIV prevention strategies -- vaccine and otherwise -- and the ramping up of care in the developing world.
Conference Coverage, April 2008
CME/CE Educating the Health Professional for Improving Cultural Competency An expert panel discusses three areas of cultural competence--bias, language barriers, and communication--in the context of clinician-patient vignettes.
Commentary, April 2008
CME/CE Cultural Competency in Healthcare: A Clinical Review and Video Vignettes From the National Medical Association Clinician-patient vignettes demonstrate 3 areas of cultural challenges for healthcare providers: bias, language barriers, and communication problems.
Clinical Review, April 2008
Announcing the Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Section of The Medscape Journal of Medicine David Goldenberg, MD, Division of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, The Pennsylvania State University, The Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, announces this new section of The Medscape Journal.
Editorial, April 2008
CME/CE Drug Mix-Ups Threaten Patient Safety Many medications are easily confused with other drugs that have similar names. How can you help avoid harmful mix-ups?
Clinical Case, April 2008
"Jake Leg," Other Poisonings, Physicians as Canaries, and the FDA Emily Friedman, an independent health policy and ethics analyst, reminds us why doctors must be "canaries" and the FDA must act.
Editorial, April 2008
Surgery for Diabetes? Kelvin D. Higa, MD, FACS, President of the American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery, explains why surgery may be the best choice for treating morbid obesity.
Editorial, April 2008
CME Update on Epidemiologic Trends in HIV, Viral Hepatitis, and STDs Here Dr. Michael L. Tapper highlights the presentations from CROI 2008 regarding the epidemiology of HIV and changing patterns of HIV transmission as well as the epidemiology of hepatitis and STDs.
Conference Coverage, April 2008
CME Opportunistic Infections: Tuberculosis and HIV Coinfection Here Dr. Gerald H. Friedland highlights the presentations from CROI 2008 regarding HIV and tuberculosis coinfections, including MDR and XDR TB.
Conference Coverage, April 2008
CME HIV Immunopathogenesis and Correlates of Protection Dr. Michael M. Lederman highlights the presentations from CROI 2008 regarding the immune response to HIV Infection.
Conference Coverage, April 2008
CME Virus and Host Factors in HIV Pathogenesis Dr. Mario Stevenson highlights the presentations from CROI 2008 regarding HIV pathogenesis.
Conference Coverage, April 2008
CME Emerging Strategies to Curb HIV Transmission Dr. Susan Buchbinder highlights the reports on curbing transmission of HIV, from the 15th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections.
Conference Coverage, April 2008

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