Table of Contents

VOL 107 / NO 4 / APRIL 2000 / POSTGRADUATE MEDICINE

SYMPOSIUM ON HIV INFECTION

HIV: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE
Introduction to a five-article symposium
Daniel H. Bowers, MD

PRIMARY HIV INFECTION
Current trends in transmission, testing, and treatment
Kalvin Yu, MD, Eric S. Daar, MD

PRACTICAL APPROACHES TO HIV THERAPY
Recommendations for the year 2000
Peter R. Wolfe, MD

HIV-ASSOCIATED METABOLIC AND MORPHOLOGIC ABNORMALITY SYNDROME
Welcome therapy may have unwelcome effects
Gary R. Cohan, MD

DESIGNING SALVAGE ANTIRETROVIRAL REGIMENS
Some basic guidelines and use of resistance testing
W. David Hardy, MD, R. Scott Hitt, MD

HIV DISEASE IN CHILDREN
The many ways it differs from the disease in adults
Joseph A. Church, MD

CLINICAL ARTICLES

HYPERTENSION IN PATIENTS WITH DIABETES
Strategies for drug therapy to reduce complications
James R. Sowers, MD, Mark Williams, MD, Murray Epstein, MD, George Bakris, MD

Women's Health Series
INFECTIOUS VAGINITIS
An accurate diagnosis is essential and attainable
Andrew Steven Coco, MD, Marie Vandenbosche, MD

Procedures in Primary Care
A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO LACERATION REPAIR
Tricks to ensure the desired cosmetic result
Julie L. Wilson, MD, Kristen Kocurek, MD, Barbara J. Doty, MD

PLEURAL EFFUSIONS IN CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
Pearls for correlating the evidence with the cause
John L. Johnson, MD

Clinical Genetics Series
CANCER GENETICS IN PRIMARY CARE
When is genetic screening an option and when is it the standard of care?
Louis J. Elsas II, MD, FFACMG, Angela Trepanier, MS, CGC

HOW TO HANDLE MYASTHENIC CRISIS
Essential steps in patient care
Richard S. Bedlack, MD, PhD, Donald B. Sanders, MD

Healthcare Guideline Series
LIPID SCREENING IN ADULTS
Working to prevent coronary artery disease
Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement

FOODBORNE AND WATERBORNE INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Contributing factors and solutions to new and reemerging pathogens
Richard Prier, MD, Jay V. Solnick, MD, PhD

CONTINUING FEATURES

EDITOR'S NOTE
HIV under inquiry

EDITORIAL
Is it time to address our future?
Ethical and financial imperatives in HIV care
Peter A. Setness, MD

CURBSIDE CONSULT
Best treatment of jellyfish stings?
Corticosteroids for tuberculosis?

PEARLS IN DERMATOLOGY
Toxic epidermal necrolysis
A widespread, life-threatening blistering reaction
Paul Watanakunakorn, MD, Robert T. Brodell, MD

DIGITAL DOC
Could your practice use a waiting room kiosk?
How to turn waiting time into learning time
Bryan P. Bergeron, MD

PUZZLES IN PRACTICE
Asymptomatic 'streaks' in a healthy young man
Yehia Y. Mishriki, MD

PATIENT NOTES
HIV and AIDS update
Condoms and safe sex

READER SERVICES

Staff, Editorial Board

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Resource Guide: HIV Infection

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