Presentation of Case. Dr. Doll L. Golden (Medicine): A 65-year-old woman was admitted to this hospital because of falls, weakness,…
Mucosal Neuromas
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Effect of Systolic and Diastolic Blood Pressure on Cardiovascular Outcomes
Thresholds for hypertension and prevailing concepts about hypertension have shifted over time. Constructs about the consequences of isolated diastolic, isolated…
The Right and Left Hands of the State — Two Patients at Risk of Deportation
Case A: London. Twenty-year-old Ms. Z. presented to the emergency department (ED) of a hospital in London, anxious and hyperventilating…
HIV-1 Epidemic Control — Insights from Test-and-Treat Trials
Debate ensued when mathematical models predicted that universal testing and treatment could achieve epidemic control within a few years in…
Acanthamoeba Keratitis
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HIV Testing and Treatment with the Use of a Community Health Approach in Rural Africa
Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has the dual benefit of improving the health of individual persons and of reducing transmission of human…
Universal Testing, Expanded Treatment, and Incidence of HIV Infection in Botswana
Antiretroviral treatment (ART) improves health outcomes in persons with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and reduces the risk of HIV…
Effect of Universal Testing and Treatment on HIV Incidence — HPTN 071 (PopART)
In 2017, approximately 37 million people were living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection worldwide, with 1.8 million new infections…
A “Never Event” That Could Kill Millions
During my residency in emergency medicine, an attending physician watching me place a central venous catheter spoke up. “Don’t let…