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Pediatric urgent care encompasses a wide range of acute illness and injury topics, from minor conditions that solely require reassurance to the recognition and stabilization of potentially life-threatening conditions that require transfer to a higher level of care.
Knee osteoarthritis is highly prevalent among older adults. Treatments include exercise, weight management, training in self-efficacy and pain-coping skills, and medications (commonly topical or oral NSAIDs, the latter often with a proton-pump inhibitor).
Patients with recurrent pericarditis were treated with the interleukin-1 trap rilonacept. Those who had a response were randomly assigned to receive continued rilonacept or placebo. Rilonacept led to a significantly lower risk of pericarditis recurrence than placebo.
Mrs. Singh is a 63-year-old woman with a history of hypertension and overweight who is in clinic for follow-up. Her systolic blood pressure (SBP) is 144 mm Hg and recent labs revealed an LDL cholesterol level of 121 mg/dL. She takes hydrochlorothiazide...
For decades, antenatal dexamethasone has been the gold standard in pregnant women at risk for preterm birth in the United States. In 1972, the first trial of the efficacy of antenatal glucocorticoids in at-risk mothers reported a reduction in respiratory distress syndrome...