Pili Annulati
This case report describes a teenage girl with glistening hair and was found to have alternating dark and light bands within the hair shafts on trichoscopic evaluation.
ABMS Lifelong Learning CME Activity
Targeting CNS Metastases in Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer With Evolving Approaches Using Molecular Markers – A Review
Importance Central nervous system (CNS) metastases presenting as either brain parenchymal metastases or leptomeningeal metastases are diagnosed in up to 50% of patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer during their disease course. While historically associated with a poor prognosis due…
How Innovative Designs Can Help Ease Ethical Tension in Good Dementia Caregiving and Decision-Making
Internationally, there is a long history of improving dementia care quality by focusing on patients’ strengths and supporting environments that normalize their daily routines. The European dementia village is a pioneering health care site: 4 acres of integrated housing and…
Antiretroviral Drugs for Treatment and Prevention of HIV in Adults: 2024 Recommendations of the International Antiviral Society–USA Panel
Importance New data and new antiretroviral drugs and formulations continue to become available for the prevention and management of HIV infection. Objective To provide updated recommendations for HIV treatment and clinical management and HIV prevention. Methods A panel of volunteer expert physician scientists…
When Designs Became Interventions in Hospitals
Design is and always has been interventional and clinically relevant. Modern evidence-based designers’ lineage was prominently shaped between 1800 and 1970. This article investigates hospital designs during this period that were correlated with patients’ health outcomes and suggests how this…
Ethics Talk: Health Care Space and Structure Designs as Interventions
This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast about therapeutic music and peace in health care. The featured guests are Jeanne Kisacky, PhD, medical historian; and John Meyer, human-centered…
Elective Surgery for People With HIV With Low CD4 Cell Count
This case report describes a man in his 60s with hypertension, deep vein thrombosis, and a recent diagnosis of HIV presented with low CD4 cell count after starting antiretroviral therapy with tenofovir alafenamide-emtricitabine-bictegravir.
Periarticular Cutaneous Nodules and Symmetric Polyarthralgia With an Insidious Onset
A man in his early 50s presented to autoimmune dermatology clinic for 3 years of periarticular nodules on his fingers that were painful with manipulation or minor trauma and symmetric polyarthralgia. What is your diagnosis?
Palmar Fasciitis and Polyarthritis Syndrome
This case report describes a man in his 50s with palmar fasciitis and polyarthritis syndrome.
Axial Spondyloarthritis – A Review
Importance Axial spondyloarthritis is an immune-mediated inflammatory condition involving the sacroiliac joints, spine, and peripheral joints. It affects approximately 1% of adults in the US and is associated with impaired physical function and reduced quality of life. Observations Inflammatory chronic back pain…
