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Bilateral Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Thickening in a Middle-Aged Woman

A middle-aged Hispanic woman presented for evaluation of an asymptomatic epiretinal membrane in the left eye. She had an ocular history of amblyopia in the left eye, a medical history significant for chronic neuropathy, ataxia, and myelopathy of unknown etiology,…

Drug-Coated Balloons for the Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease – A Review

Importance  Drug-coated balloon (DCB) angioplasty has emerged as an alternative to drug-eluting stent (DES) implantation for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with coronary in-stent restenosis (ISR) as well as de novo coronary artery disease. Observations  DCBs are balloons coated with antiproliferative…

Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease

This JAMA Insights discusses the evaluation and treatment of chronic kidney disease in patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes.

Bilateral Acute Optic Neuropathy in a Teenaged Girl

A 14-year old girl presents with sudden painless vision decline in the left eye for 5 days and reports constant fatigue, occasional dizziness, mild pain in the lower limbs, and intermittent claudication over the past 12 months with no history…

How Should the Use of Opioids Be Regulated to Motivate Better Clinical Practice?

This article describes historical and political reasons for and devastating consequences of US opioid prescribing policy since the 1990s, which has restricted opioid prescribing for pain less than for treating opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment. This article considers merits and…

What Would Equitable Harm Reduction Look Like?

Structural determinants of health frameworks must express anti-racism to be effective, but racial and ethnic inequities are widely documented, even in harm reduction programs that focus on person-centered interventions. Harm reduction strategies should express social justice and health equity, resist…