A 16-year-old boy presented with an acute case of hand dermatitis, which had been made worse by self-treatment with numerous agents, including hydrogen peroxide, alcohol, bleach, topical antibacerial...
DAVID L. KAPLAN, MD—Series Editor University of Missouri Kansas City, University of Kansas
Dr Kaplan is clinical assistant professor of dermatology at the University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine and at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. He practices adult and pediatric dermatology in Overland Park, Kan.
DAVID L. KAPLAN, MD—Series Editor University of Missouri Kansas City, University of Kansas
Dr Kaplan is clinical assistant professor of dermatology at the University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine and at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. He practices adult and pediatric dermatology in Overland Park, Kan.
Dr Rubin is professor of medicine at Temple University School of Medicine and chief of clinical hematology in the department of medicine at Temple University Hospital, both in Philadelphia.
Dr Della-Giustina is the chief of education and the director of the emergency medicine residency program at the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut.
DAVID DELLA-GIUSTINA, MD
Yale Univers...
Although acute low back pain usually resolves within 6 weeks—with or without treatment—the pain may signal a significant neurologic or life-threatening disease that warrants immediate intervention.
Dr Della-Giustina is the chief of education and the director of the emergency medicine residency program at the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut.
DAVID DELLA-GIUSTINA, MD
Yale Univers...
With an annual incidence of 5%, low back pain affects up to 90% of the population at some point in time in their lives.
A 55-year-old African American woman reported several months of back pain, bilateral joint stiffness, and pain in her fingers and wrists. Swelling in the ankles and shins had also developed.
FIONA FANG, MD and BARBARA WILSON, MD University of Virginia
Dr Fang is a resident in the department of dermatology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville. Dr Wilson is associate professor of dermatology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
The authors have no financial disclosures or conflicts of interest to declare.
BURKE A. CUNHA, MD State University of New York School of Medicine, Stony Brook
Dr Cunha is chief of the infectious disease division at Winthrop University Hospital, Mineola, New York, and is professor of medicine at the State University of New York School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York.
MARINA LITVIN, MD KIM A. CARMICHAEL, MD—Series Editor Washington University
Dr Litvin is a fellow in the department of internal medicine, division of endocrinology, metabolism, and lipid research at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, Missouri. Dr Carmichael is an associate professor of medicine, department of internal medicine, division of endocrinology, metabolism, and lipid research at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, Missouri.
MARINA LITVIN, MD
KIM A. CARMICHAEL, ...
How are glucose intolerance and impaired fasting glucose or “prediabetes” defined?
SALLY ALRABAA, MD, PAMELA R. NOEL, MD, and TODD WILLS, MD University of South Florida College of Medicine
Dr Alrabaa is assistant professor of medicine in the division of infectious disease and international medicine at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida. She is affiliated with the Hillsborough County Health Department as a supervising attending physician in the specialty care clinic and as an investigator in the clinical research unit. Dr Noel is an infectious disease fellow at the University of South Florida College of Medicine. Dr Wills is associate professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases at the University of South Florida College of Medicine.
SALLY ALRABAA, MD, PAMELA R. NOEL, MD...
Clostridium difficile infections are among the most common and most serious healthcare-associated infections in the United States.
SALLY ALRABAA, MD, PAMELA R. NOEL, MD, and TODD WILLS, MD University of South Florida College of Medicine
Dr Alrabaa is assistant professor of medicine in the division of infectious disease and international medicine at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida. She is affiliated with the Hillsborough County Health Department as a supervising attending physician in the specialty care clinic and as an investigator in the clinical research unit. Dr Noel is an infectious disease fellow at the University of South Florida College of Medicine. Dr Wills is associate professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases at the University of South Florida College of Medicine.
SALLY ALRABAA, MD, PAMELA R. NOEL, MD...
Clostridium difficile infections are among the most common and most serious healthcare-associated infections in the United States.
SALLY ALRABAA, MD, PAMELA R. NOEL, MD, and TODD WILLS, MD University of South Florida College of Medicine
Dr Alrabaa is assistant professor of medicine in the division of infectious disease and international medicine at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida. She is affiliated with the Hillsborough County Health Department as a supervising attending physician in the specialty care clinic and as an investigator in the clinical research unit. Dr Noel is an infectious disease fellow at the University of South Florida College of Medicine. Dr Wills is associate professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases at the University of South Florida College of Medicine.
SALLY ALRABAA, MD, PAMELA R. NOEL, MD...
Clostridium difficile infections are among the most common and most serious healthcare-associated infections in the United States.
GREGORY W. RUTECKI, MD University of South Alabama
Dr Rutecki is professor of medicine at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine in Mobile. He is also a member of the editorial board of CONSULTANT.
GREGORY W. RUTECKI, MD
University of ...
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