Letter: Medical care section.

Special section on medical bionics.

Palliative Care Section

Objective. Although cancer pain (consistent and breakthrough pain [BTP; pain flares interrupting well-controlled baseline pain]) is common among cancer patients, its characteristics, etiology, and impact on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) across the lifespan are poorly understood. Design. This longitudinal study examines agebased differences and pain-related interference in young and old...

Aerospace medical association letter to the editor

Dear Editor, Thank you for publishing the article “Airplane pilot mental health and suicidal thoughts: a cross-sectional descriptive study via anonymous web-based survey” by Wu, et al., [1] 15 December 2016. We are glad the authors chose to investigate the area of pilot mental health and recognized the need to acquire data on the issue directly from sampling pilot populations. The literature on...

The medical letter on drugs and therapeutics.

Treatment Guidelines from The Medical Letter

The drugs of choice for treatment of common cardiac arrhythmias are listed in the table that begins on the next page; some drugs are recommended for indications for which they have not been approved by the US FDA. The dosages and adverse effects of each drug are listed in the table that begins on page 80. Antiarrhythmic drugs may themselves cause arrhythmias, which can be fatal. Some of these d...