Abstract
Exploring the important advances and popular therapies for the most frequently debated and treated conditions, this text delivers more than 1000 therapies for over 300 medical conditions. Coverage of important advances include a new treatment for cholera; new drugs for managing patients with HIV disease and adults with diabetes mellitus; a new vaccine for chickenpox; maze surgical procedure for atrial fibrillation; Botulinum toxin injections for rehabilitation of the stroke patient; information on deep thrombosis of the extremities, bursitis, tenditis, myofascial pain and fibromyaglia; and ectopic pregnancy. It also includes information on the latest drugs.