Rare Diseases
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AAP Consolidates Resources for Primary Care Providers
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Survivors of childhood cancers at increased risk for autoimmune diseases
Key clinical point: Survivors of childhood cancers, especially leukemia, Hodgkin lymphoma, and renal tumors, had a significantly increased risk of...
Conference Coverage
ITC 2015: Review IDs features to aid thyroid lymphoma diagnosis
Rapidly enlarging thyroid masses with compressive symptoms may signal thyroid lymphoma, according to findings from a review of cases at the Mayo...
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Dengue disease is here and U.S. physicians need to get to know it
Know the warning signs that distinguish a case of self-limited dengue from one headed for severe and potentially fatal complications.
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Promising nonvaccine approaches to controlling dengue
As dengue vaccine development stumbles, nonpesticide-based mosquito control strategies gain traction.
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VIDEO: MMF equals cyclophosphamide’s efficacy in sclerodermal lung disease
Key clinical point: Mycophenolate mofetil controlled scleroderma-induced interstitial lung disease as well as cyclosphosphamide did but with...
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Vesicular rash in a newborn girl
The appearance and pattern of this child’s rash led us to suspect a rare diagnosis. The findings of a cutaneous biopsy confirmed it.
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Surgical options for Graves orbitopathy can be vision saving
In the face of serious – even vision-threatening – complications, endocrinologists treating patients with Graves orbitopathy should understand...
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Impact of health care–associated meningitis or ventriculitis spotlighted
Health care–associated meningitis or ventriculitis continues to occur despite well established preventive methods and is associated with...
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FDA approves new treatment for Factor X deficiency
The Food and Drug Administration has provided its first approval of a coagulation factor replacement drug specifically for patients with...
Conference Coverage
Thyroglobulin can’t predict pazopanib response in differentiated thyroid cancer
Key clinical point: Falling thyroglobulin levels cannot predict early response to pazopanib in differentiated thyroid cancers. Major finding:...