Diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis.

Osteoporosis affects approximately 8 million women and 2 million men in the United States. The associated fractures are a common and preventable cause of morbidity and mortality in up to 50 percent of older women. The U.

A 41-year-old HIV-positive man with acute onset of quadriplegia after West Nile virus infection.

Most cases of West Nile encephalitis virus (WNV) infection are asymptomatic. In cases where WNV is symptomatic, patients usually experience high fever of sudden onset, myalgia, headache, and gastrointestinal symptoms, accompanied by a macular erythematous rash in a quarter to half of cases. More severe infections manifest as a poliomyelitis.

Chest pain and ST segment elevation attributable to cholecystitis: a case report and review of the literature.

Chest pain with electrocardiographic changes is usually a life-threatening presentation of cardiac ischemia. There are, however, a variety of noncardiac conditions that have been reported to mimic these clinical and electrocardiographic changes. An Asian woman presented with chest pain and ST segment elevations in the distribution of the left anterior descending artery.

Morning Report: an analysis of curricular content and comparison to national guidelines.

Background: Morning Report is a long-standing tradition for internal medicine residency programs, but format and content vary greatly and have not been compared to any accepted curriculum standards. The Federated Council for Internal Medicine (FCIM) Task Force on the Internal Medicine Residency Curriculum has published curriculum guidelines for residency programs.

Purpose: We compared our institution's Morning Report topics with FCIM curriculum guidelines to determine the feasibility and validity of these guidelines in a residency program.