Internal Medicine Experts & Viewpoints

Cocaine-Associated Chest Pain and Myocardial Infarction Dr. Amal Mattu reviews the AHA's recent scientific statement regarding the management of cocaine-associated chest pain and myocardial infarction and provides key takeaways for emergency clinicians.
Commentary, August 2008
Antihypertensive ARB Therapy Protects Children and Against Alzheimer's -- But What About Endothelin Antagonists or Genes? How should we treat the very young? Or the elderly with cognitive challenges? New data provide answers, support ARBs, equivocate on endothelin antagonists, and fail to find genes for salt restriction.
Expert Column, August 2008
Biologic Therapy for Crohn's Disease: Clinical Experience in Patients Who Have Had Previous Anti-TNF Treatment Remo Panaccione, MD, FRCP, explores the issues and available evidence in regard to the management of Crohn's disease patients with prior anti-TNF experience.
Expert Column, August 2008
Nurses Journal Scan, July 2008 Many important topics are covered this month including sleep apnea, suicide in the elderly, massage in osteoarthritis, advanced practice nursing, and burnout and staffing in perioperative nurses.
Commentary, August 2008
Contrast Media Reactions Pose Serious Risk of Nephropathy Iodinated contrast media perform an important function in imaging, but they also can increase the risk for morbidity and mortality due to nephropathy.
Expert Column, August 2008
When and How Should Clinicians Diagnose Secondary Hypertension? True secondary hypertension represents only about 5% of patients -- in his video blog Dr. Black presents detailed criteria for how clinicians can efficiently assess its possible causes.
Commentary, August 2008
What Do Pathologic Skin Lesions in Elderly Patients Look Like? What are some of the most common premalignant and malignant lesions seen in older patients, and what do they look like?
Ask the Expert, August 2008
Does Breast-Feeding Improve Child Cognitive Development? Dr. George Lundberg discusses how breast-feeding may improve child cognitive development.
Commentary, August 2008
Obesity Variants Affect Eating Behavior in a Predictable World: The FTO, MC4R, HBII-85 Genes Dr. Bradley Patay discusses important new papers reporting on the relationships of genetic markers to obesity.
Commentary, August 2008
Monitoring and Managing Cardiotoxicities Associated with Cancer Therapies: An Expert Interview with Dr. Pamela S. Douglas In this interview, Dr. Douglas discusses some of the key challenges facing oncologists today in monitoring and managing cardiotoxicities associated with cancer therapeutics.
Expert Interview, August 2008

POLL

The American Medical Association has called for a change in current federal law to allow pilot studies on financial incentives for cadaveric organ donation. Current law prohibits financial incentives, stating that any motivation for organ donation other than altruism is unethical. Do you approve or disapprove of such a change?

Featured Viewpoint

Are Osteoporosis Risks Being Overlooked? Missed opportunities for osteoporosis detection and treatment following fractures are common.
Commentary, August 2008

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