Posts in Internal Medicine

Sleep apnea and resistant hypertension go together: apnea turns up in most people whose pressure stays high on three drugs, and CPAP lowers it modestly.

PARP inhibitors and BRCA: tumors without BRCA repair depend on PARP, so blocking it kills cancer cells while sparing normal ones. Here is how it

Ketamine for suicidal thoughts can ease them within a day, but only as a supervised bridge. The mechanism, the evidence, and why ongoing care matters.

Medication timing matters for some drugs: short-acting statins work better at night, while long-acting statins and blood pressure pills work at any hour.

The upper limit of TSH drifts upward with age. In older adults, a mildly high TSH with a normal free T4 is often a new[…]

Cord blood T cells are overwhelmingly CD45RA-positive naive cells that lack whole adult effector populations outright, including the skin-homing CLA-positive subset — which is why[…]

Key Takeaways: The chronic anterior uveitis associated with juvenile idiopathic arthritis is usually asymptomatic, and the affected eye typically looks entirely normal.

Key Takeaways: The single most useful sentence about Group B strep in pregnancy is that it describes a colonization state, not an infection. Streptococcus agalactiae[…]

Key Takeaways: July is UV Safety Month, which makes it a good moment to examine the one common lab test where sunlight, skin biology, and[…]

Key Takeaways: On July 23, 2026, an FDA advisory panel did something it rarely does: it overruled its own agency’s scientists. The Pharmacy Compounding Advisory[…]