Sunday, 1 December 2024

Fasting & Cancer

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 Does fasting help cancer? It depends. Two forms of fasting- one, comprised of eschewing food but taking unrestricted water intake, and the ...
Saturday, 7 September 2024

2024 ACR/ACCP Guidelines on Treatment of SARD-ILDs

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The ACR/ACCP committee looked at ILD associated with five common SARD categories: 1. Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) 2. RA 3. IIM (includes anti-sy...
Thursday, 27 April 2023

The useful Sodium Thiosulfate

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  Sodium thiosulfate is not the first drug you think of when asked to reel off a series of medications. Yet, it is a versatile, underappreci...
Saturday, 11 February 2023

Preventing Gentamicin Induced Permanent Deafness in Newborn Children

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 You ever heard of a child going deaf after a single dose of Gentamicin? It's more common than you think and it happens regrettably too ...
Saturday, 10 September 2022

The Man With Recurrent Leg Swelling

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 Saw an interesting case last week. Thirty-two year old Caucasian man, works loading-unloading shlelves in a supermarket. Over several month...
Saturday, 5 February 2022

Mycoplasma hominis & Ureaplasma urealyticum Cause Septic Arthritis in Subjects with Hypogammaglobulinemia

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 If you have a subject with hypogamma, either due to CVID or other "constitutional" causes, such XLA, or acquired, due to immunosu...
Tuesday, 21 December 2021

Beware Adult Onset CGD in Subjects with Pulmonary or Extrapulmonary Granulomas but Negative AFB & Tuberculous Culture

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 Chronic Granulomatous Disease (CGD) is rare and affects 1 in 200,000 live births. While 75% have the X-linked form (and thus presenting in ...