To examine the predictors, treatments, and outcomes of the use of palliative care in patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) who had a do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order.

A 26-year-old woman presented with a chief complaint of recurrent upper respiratory and sinus infections. She reported that during the last 2 years, she had experienced 4 sinus infections lasting longer than 1 week requiring antibiotic therapy and multiple sinopulmonary infections during the spring and fall. Before this, she denied any history of recurrent sinus infection, upper respiratory tract…

A previously healthy young woman presented to the emergency department with fevers, dyspnea, headache, and weight loss. She was found to have pancytopenia, elevated liver function tests, splenomegaly, and a right heterogenous hypervascular ovarian mass. Because of headaches and subacute hearing loss, magnetic resonance imaging of her brain was performed, which showed a trident-shaped symmetric…

Bringing a unique dual expertise in clinical medicine and biomedical investigation, the clinical investigator contributes indispensably to the research enterprise of medicine. The continuation of such contributions is dependent on the recruitment of nascent clinical investigators and their subsequent maturation into independent, productive, and funded participants in the research community at…

To determine differences in plasma sex hormone levels in male and female coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients and healthy volunteers (HVs) because cell entry of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 occurs via the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 receptor which is downregulated by 17β-estradiol.

Magnesium disorders are common in clinical practice and when present can manifest clinically as cardiovascular, neuromuscular, or other organ dysfunction. Hypomagnesemia is far more common than hypermagnesemia, which is largely seen in patients with reduced glomerular filtration rates receiving magnesium-containing medications. In addition to inherited disorders of magnesium handling,…

To examine the predictors, treatments, and outcomes of the use of palliative care in patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) who had a do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order.

Bringing a unique dual expertise in clinical medicine and biomedical investigation, the clinical investigator contributes indispensably to the research enterprise of medicine. The continuation of such contributions is dependent on the recruitment of nascent clinical investigators and their subsequent maturation into independent, productive, and funded participants in the research community at…

A previously healthy young woman presented to the emergency department with fevers, dyspnea, headache, and weight loss. She was found to have pancytopenia, elevated liver function tests, splenomegaly, and a right heterogenous hypervascular ovarian mass. Because of headaches and subacute hearing loss, magnetic resonance imaging of her brain was performed, which showed a trident-shaped symmetric…