Q. I need help with this question from Robbins: 15 year old boy with fever of 10 days.
So we had this lecture on malaria on Thursday, and I decided that we needed a little object lesson to go along with it.
Q. I wanted to check a fact with you because my friend and I were confused by something in First Aid, and it wasn’t listed in one of the errata for the new edition.
Okay, so we know that antinuclear antibodies are seen in many different autoimmune diseases (including lupus).
I’m really excited about our new t-shirt! It was a long time in the making – with lots of help, advice, and voting from medical students, dental students and our Facebook community.
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a multisystem, autoimmune disease.
Q. While doing some reproductive medicine practice questions in a boards question bank I came across one I couldn’t reason through and was hoping you could help:
I just realized that it’s been four years (and one day) since I started this blog!
Q. I have myeloma and have relapsed after a stem cell transplant.
Here’s a case that many a first-year pathology resident has missed. Once.
