General Medicine in Oncology

Register for your FREE account now and join thousands of oncology professionals who stay informed about patient care issues, practical oncology-care management techniques, and drug administration and dosage information.

Email*

Password*

Keep me logged in Forgot your password?

Email*

General Medicine Review

General medicine health concerns do not go away when a patient develops cancer. Oncology Nurse Advisor teamed up with its sister publication, The Clinical Advisor (CA), to provide a bridge to selected content on common general medicine topics. These articles first appeared in CA and are reproduced here with permission from DynaMed.

Urinary tract infection in adults

Alan Ehrlich, MD

A quick review of urinary tract infection in adults using the best global evidence.

Bell's palsy

Brian S. Alper, MD, MSPH, and Cynthia Brown, MD

The most up-to-date evidence on Bell's palsy

Upper respiratory infection

By Brian S. Alper, MD, MSPH

Influenza Management

Brian S. Alper, MD, MSPH, and Larissa Lucas, MD

The most recent evidence on the management of influenza

Gout

Matthew Brier, MD, MPH

The various clinical presentations of this painful form of arthritis result from tissue deposition of monosodium urate crystals.

Hyperhidrosis

By Matthew Brier, MD, MPH, and JoEllen Wynne, RN, MSN, FNP-BC

Essential tremor

By Cynthia B. Brown, MD, and Cung Pham, MD

Involuntary rhythmic and oscillatory movements of body part due to alternating contraction of opposing muscle groups not resulting from other disease or medication

Chronic gastritis

By Donald Stanley, MD, and Cynthia B. Brown, MD

Chronic gastritis can be caused by prolonged irritation from NSAID use of, bacterial infectioni, pernicious anemia, age-related degeneration of the lining of the stomach, or chronic bile reflux.