What is AIDS? What is HIV? What causes AIDS?
AIDS stands for Acquired ImmunoDeficiency Syndrome. Acquired - means that the disease is not hereditary but develops after birth from contact with …
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Original HIV Infection Lurks Within Despite Countless Changes
Scientists have been surprised to learn that, despite thousands of changes that viruses like HIV undergo in rapid fashion to evade the body's …
How EMR and EHR systems can kill patients
by Margalit Gur-Arie Back in the times when EHRs were just EMRs, they had a very simple and humble mission. The software was supposed to help provid…
Why the medical home may not save primary care money
by Jaan Sidorov, MD When the Disease Management Care Blog saw the flurry of news reports about the Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) “saving m…
Absolute CD4 T-Lymphocyte Count by Cell Bead Assay
The quantitative BD Trucount (San Jose, CA) tube method is the conventional but expensive method to quantitate CD4+T-lymphocyte …
Heterogeneous Muscular Involvement in Inclusion Body Myositis
n patients with inclusion body myositis (IBM), selectivity of involvement of certain muscle groups is common, but the mechanism …
Urinalysis
Images available as described below range in file size from 50 to 150k. Urinalysis can reveal diseases that have gone unnoticed because they do n…