Posts in Internal Medicine

Key Takeaways: July is Minority Mental Health Month, and antidepressant pharmacogenomics deserves a place in that conversation for a strictly biochemical reason. Two liver enzymes,[…]

Key Takeaways: Iron has exactly one way out of the cells that absorb it. That exit is ferroportin, the sole known cellular iron exporter, and[…]

Key Takeaways: Vagus nerve stimulation for rheumatoid arthritis sounds implausible until you follow the anatomy. The nervous system does not merely register inflammation; it regulates[…]

Key Takeaways: July is UV Safety Month, and a meaningful share of the burn risk is sitting in the medicine cabinet rather than in the[…]

Key Takeaways: June is Men’s Health Month, and PSA screening — the prostate-specific antigen blood test — remains the most argued-about topic in primary care.[…]

Patients sometimes present with classic exertional chest pain, abnormal stress testing, or even troponin-positive events, and then return from coronary angiography with the news that[…]

Allostasis is the physiologic process by which the body changes set points to meet acute demand — heart rate rises during a sprint, blood pressure[…]

Atrial fibrillation is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia in adults, and its central clinical danger is silent. When the atria fibrillate, coordinated mechanical contraction[…]

At each end of every chromosome lies a repeating DNA sequence called a telomere. The repeats themselves carry no protein code; their job is structural.[…]

The clinical pattern is familiar to any primary care physician who has seen patients in the years following the COVID-19 pandemic. A previously healthy adult[…]