Mitigating the Burden of Medication Costs
This essay discusses medication cost-lowering strategies that clinicians can use in routine clinical and inpatient care to assist patients in affording and adhering to expensive therapy regimens.
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Newborn Girl Presenting With Erythema and Blisters
A female child presents for 3-year follow-up with erythema, vesicles, and bullae present since birth and an increasing number of annular hyperkeratotic plaques and palmoplantar hyperkeratosis. What is your diagnosis?
Mirror Hand Movements Caused by a Deletion of the DCC Gene
This case report describes the evaluation of 16-year-old twins with chromosomal microarray and mirror movements.
Patient With Unilateral Nasal Obstruction and a Nasal Mass
A 65-year-old man presented with a 2-year history of left nasal obstruction and large tumor in the left nasal cavity. What is your diagnosis?
Olmsted Syndrome
This case report describes a 6-year-old girl who presented with symmetrical massive keratotic plaques on the palms, soles, and perioral area, as well as hair loss for 4 years.
Development and Validation of the Phoenix Criteria for Pediatric Sepsis and Septic Shock
Importance The Society of Critical Care Medicine Pediatric Sepsis Definition Task Force sought to develop and validate new clinical criteria for pediatric sepsis and septic shock using measures of organ dysfunction through a data-driven approach. Objective To derive and validate novel criteria…
Bariatric Surgery and Longitudinal Cancer Risk – A Review
Importance Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the United States, with the obesity epidemic contributing to its steady increase every year. Recent cohort studies find an association between bariatric surgery and reduced longitudinal cancer risk, but with…
Patient-Reported Outcome Measures for Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients With Psoriasis – A Systematic Review
Importance Multiple patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) for health-related quality of life (HRQL) exist for patients with psoriasis. Evidence for the content validity and other measurement properties of these PROMs is critical to determine which HRQL PROMs could be recommended for use….
National Institutes of Health Funding for Surgeon-Scientists in the US – An Update and an Expanded Landscape
Importance Current reports suggest that the surgeon-scientist phenotype is significantly threatened. However, a significant increase in the proportion of surgeons in the workforce funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from 2010 (0.5%) to 2020 (0.7%) was recently reported and…
Sex Disparities in Ophthalmology From Training Through Practice – A Systematic Review
Importance Sex-based research in medicine has revealed inequities against females on almost every metric at almost every career stage; ophthalmology is no exception. Objective To systematically review the experiences of females in ophthalmology (FiO) from training through practice in high-income countries (HICs)….
