July 2014

Marijuana use in adolescence results in significant cognitive and behavioral impairments.

Crops raised in a method that meets the organic standard contain more antioxidants than traditionally grown crops. Nevertheless, it remains unproven whether diets with higher antioxidant concentrations provide improved health outcomes.

Although many physicians currently snap, store, and share clinical photographs on their smartphones, they often neglect to ask patients for permission to do so.

This 28-year-old woman presented with a large hyperpigmented patch on the right side of her upper back. Although the lesion developed over the past 2 years, it has been "sinking in" over the past 2 weeks. The patient denies any trauma, pain, discomfort, or pruritis, as well as any family history of cancers, lymphoma, or autoimmune disease. However, she has a history of gastroesophageal reflux disease and onychomycosis, and her grandfather has a similar lesion.

Despite the negative publicity surrounding opioid analgesics in the management of chronic pain, the medications should not be omitted from any respectable pain physician's armamentarium.

Disproven medical theories and practices can be slow to change, and nowhere is this truer than in the field of clinical nutrition.

Although they are underutilized, intrauterine devices are among the safest and most efficacious forms of birth control available for adolescents.

Despite the general consensus that excessive alcohol consumption should be avoided prior to and during pregnancy, there is very little data on the effects alcohol consumption in early gestation has on birth outcomes.

It is generally assumed a viral infection will get better in "7 days with antibiotics and in roughly a week without them." As it turns out, these estimates are low, especially in children.

Left untreated or inadequately treated, syphilis may cause tertiary cardiovascular disease, one form of which is syphilitic aortitis.

For those who fail to quit smoking with varenicline treatment alone, adding a nicotine patch will likely increase the odds of tobacco abstinence at 6 months.