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    Cirrhosis: Diagnosis, Management, and Prevention

    S. PAUL STARR, DANIEL RAINES

    Alcohol abuse and viral hepatitis are the most common causes of cirrhosis, although nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is emerging as an increasingly important cause. Primary care physicians share responsibility with specialists in managing the most common complications of the...

    Diagnosis and Management of Crohn's Disease

    THAD WILKINS, KATHRYN JARVIS, JIGNESHKUMAR PATEL

    Common symptoms of Crohn's disease include abdominal pain, diarrhea, fatigue, fever, gastrointestinal bleeding, and weight loss. Laboratory tests are useful for making a diagnosis, assessing disease activity, identifying complications, and monitoring response to therapy. The...

    Subacute Management of Ischemic Stroke

    CHRISTOPHER R. BERNHEISEL, JEFFREY D. SCHLAUDECKER, KATELYN LEOPOLD

    Patients who have had an ischemic stroke should be hospitalized in the subacute period for cardiac and neurologic assessment, and possibly for diagnostic imaging. Goals of hospitalization include nutritional, physical, and speech therapy, as well as prevention of...

    AAFP News Now: AFP Edition

    AAFP News Now: AFP Edition

    Study Shows Potential Impact of Graduate Medical Education Funding Cuts | AHRQ Study Highlights the Benefits and Challenges of Electronic Prescribing | CMS Demonstrations Target Common Factors Leading to Improper Payment | More than 100,000 Primary Care Physicians Adopt EHRs...

    Editorials

    Rationale for a 39-Week Elective Delivery Policy

    MICHAEL CACCIATORE, D. ASHLEY HILL

    Several organizations have called for obstetric care professionals to decrease the number of elective (non-medically indicated) deliveries before an estimated gestational age of 39 weeks to prevent iatrogenic neonatal harm. Approximately one out of every three births in the...

    Graham Center Policy One-Pager

    Comprehensive Medical School Rural Programs Produce Rural Family Physicians

    HOWARD K. RABINOWITZ, STEPHEN PETTERSON, JAMES G. BOULGER, MATTHEW L. HUNSAKER, FRED W. MARKHAM, JAMES J. DIAMOND, ANDREW BAZEMORE, ROBERT L. PHILLIPS, JR

    Health insurance expansion expected from the Affordable Care Act is likely to exacerbate the long-standing and critical shortage of rural and primary care physicians over the next decade. Comprehensive medical school rural programs, from which most graduates ultimately enter...

    Clinical Evidence Handbook

    Common Cold

    BRUCE ARROLL

    What are the effects of treatments for common cold?

    STEPS

    Dabigatran (Pradaxa) for Prevention of Stroke in Atrial Fibrillation

    JENNIFER L. STROHECKER

    Dabigatran is superior to warfarin for stroke prevention in patients with atrial fibrillation, with similar rates of major bleeding. Because it does not require laboratory monitoring, dabigatran therapy is less complicated than warfarin therapy, but it costs significantly more.

    Photo Quiz

    Arcuate, Red Plaques with Pustules on the Trunk

    JEAN HOLLAND, ARATHI GOLDSMITH, PETER SAITTA, SEAN CARLSON

    Photo Quiz presents readers with a clinical challenge based on a photograph or other image.

    FPIN's Clinical Inquiries

    Antibody Testing for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

    KACEY GIBSON, PATRICIA GOODEMOTE, STEPHEN JOHNSON

    Antibody testing plays an important role when assessing patients, but should not be used alone to diagnose SLE.

    Practice Guidelines

    CDC Updates Recommendations for Contraceptive Use in the Postpartum Period

    AMBER RANDEL

    Initiating appropriate contraception in the postpartum period is important to avoid negative outcomes related to short birth intervals. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently reevaluated the safety of contraceptive use in the postpartum period.

    Letters to the Editor

    Antiretroviral Therapy Regimens in Treatment-Naive Patients

    The Virtuous Cycle

    MARK H. EBELL

    Antiretroviral Therapy Regimens in Treatment-Naive Patients

    Tips from Other Journals

    Bright Light Therapy: Not Just for Seasonal Affective Disorder

    KENNETH T. MOON

    Which Rule Effectively Diagnoses Deep Venous Thrombosis?

    AMY CRAWFORD-FAUCHER

    Information from Your Family Doctor

    Cirrhosis and Liver Damage

    It is permanent scarring of the liver.

    Crohn's Disease

    It is a disease that causes inflammation in the digestive tract (gut). Crohn's disease usually happens in young adults.



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