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Health care reform, the patient-centered medical home, and the impact of environmental change on global health are just a few of the topics to be discussed at the Internal Medicine 2009 Medicine 2009 in Philadelphia this week.

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May we forgive a murderer on behalf of his victims?

Psychiatrists who treat women and adolescent girls may find it necessary to discuss with their patients reproductive planning and the role of contraception in setting comprehensive treatment goals. Here's why.

Newer anti-obesity drugs aren't your mother's Fen-Phen, but they also don't come without their own potential downsides.

Aggressive and impulsive behaviors in schizophrenia pose many clinical challenges. The best way to reduce the risk of aggression is with adequate treatment of schizophrenia.

Medical schools around the country are using different strategies to get students interested in radiology.

Effective communication is essential for delivering quality patient care and establishing a good relationship. Here are eight tips to help.

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Find out what the recent agreement between the AMA and CMS means for physicians going forward.

Watch this live video exam and hear details from the boy's mother about the acute, widespread eruption. What's your diagnosis?

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Being angry at a patient isn’t constructive. Instead, use these tips to manage a patient’s unrealistic expectations

When managing their practices, a lot of very good doctors make bad business decisions because they lack the same data-driven rigor they give to patients.

Establish appropriate staff training for ICD-10 at your medical practice with a keen eye on your revenue cycle management.

Asthma and allergy symptoms, lupus, Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, southern tick–associated rash illness—several seasonal disorders are brought to light in this concise slideshow.

Neurologists will need to improve documentation for several common diagnoses to make a successful ICD-10 transition. Here are six helpful tips.

Plaque psoriasis. (Tanya Munger, MSN and Robert Bales, MD, MPH)

Guselkumab, a selective antagonist of IL-23, went head to head with adalimumab in a year-long phase 2 trial of 293 patients with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. A quick synopsis of the results here.

Multi detector computed tomography for autoimmune pancreatitis may not provide fully accurate diagnosis if abnormalities are detected.

Pyoderma gangrenosum. (David Effron, MD and Alex Green, DO)

A case report describes the use of anakinra in a patient with psoriatic arthritis in whom pyoderma gangrenosum developed. The ulcer had not responded to any other therapies.

"The time is right to use research-informed interventions and implementation strategies to address the quality chasm for mental health care," says to NIMH Director Insel.

The purpose of an organization chart is to depict the skeletal structure of your practice; including the functional relationships between your staff.

Heliotrope rash in dermatomyositis

Hard, mobile, painless subcutaneous nodules developed in this woman who had had dermatomyositis for 20 years. The calcifications progressed during treatment with infliximab.

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