Post-tuberculous lung disease: should we be using Theophylline?

Should we be using statistics to define disease?

‘‘Don’t worry about the physiology test—if everybody fails, everybody passes’’, Anonymous, Jefferson Medical College, Fall 1977. The first few months of medical school caused anxiety in most students, who typically went from environments where they were well above the ‘‘norm’’ in their classes to one in which they were just average. At the same time, the volume and difficulty of the material on...

Fluoride varnishes: should we be using them?

Fluoride varnishes are fast becoming the standard of care as topical fluoride treatments. Fluoride varnishes still await approval from the FDA for use as caries preventive agents. In the meantime, their use for such purposes is considered "off-label." This article highlights the efficacy of fluoride varnishes as caries preventive agents and introduces some of the commercially available fluoride...

Should we all be vegetarians?

Should we be screening for early diabetic renal disease?

Vasopressors in obstetrics: what should we be using?

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Historically, ephedrine has been recommended as the best vasopressor in obstetrics because animal studies showed it caused less reduction in uterine blood flow compared with alpha-agonists. Recent clinical evidence, however, suggests that this is not as important as initially thought. This review evaluates current data with a focus on spinal anesthesia for cesarean section. ...