Grand Rounds in Environmental Medicine

Grand Rounds in Environmental Medicine

With this issue, Environmental Health Perspectives initiates a new series: Grand Rounds in Environmental Medicine. In this new series, we will present cases drawn from real life that represent problems commonly encountered in environmental medicine. Some of the cases will be routine; others will have a twist, a twist that is not too unordinary, but rather is illustrative of some of the variatio...

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Grand rounds: one hundred years of internal medicine

Grmek is admirably receptive to the socio-cultural shaping of responses to epidemic disease. Pointing out the irony of the fact that Susan Sontag's Illness as metaphor (1979) appeared on the very brink of the emergence of AIDS, he draws upon her perception that every age gets the symbolic disease it deserves to explore the metaphorical freighting of AIDS. Clearly aware that the ban upon figurat...

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Grand Rounds in Pediatric Nephrology

Idiopathic nephrotic syndrome is the most common type of nephrotic syndrome in children and is often associated with life threatening bacterial infections. While the majority of children respond to prednisolone, most have one or more relapses. In children with significant adverse effects of prednisolone, corticosteroid sparing agents may be required. A kidney biopsy is required to guide therapy...