This issue of Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice features expert clinical reviews on Infectious Disease which includes current information on Viral Hepatitis, Sexually Transmitted Disease, HIV/AIDS, Tick-borne Illness, MRSA, Pneumonia, Ear Infections, Urinary Tract Infections, Meningitis, Gastroenteritis, Tuberculosis, and Upper Respiratory Infections.

This issue of Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, guest edited by Dr. Michael Malone, is devoted to Allergy Primer for Primary Care. Articles in this issue include: Indoor and Outdoor Allergies; Food Allergies; Insect Allergy; Drug Allergy; Allergic Dermatoses; Allergic Rhinitis; Respiratory Allergic Disorders; Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Disorders; Mastocytosis; Allergy Testing; Allergy Immunotherapy; Anaphylaxis; and Complementary and Alternative Treatment for Allergic Conditions...

Acute Care for Elders (ACE) is a model of care designed to improve functional outcomes and to improve the processes for the care of older patients. This model includes: an environment of care designed to promote improved function for older patients; an interdisciplinary team that works together to identify/address the vulnerabilities of the older patients; nursing care plans for prevention of disability; early planning to help prepare the patient to return home and a review of medical care...

Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities for all.While much progress in race relations has been made in recent years-including the election of Barack Obama as President of the United State-it's clear that our journey t...

When a strange woman slips a note into grieving widow Paula's pocket at her husband's funeral, everything suggests that he was not all that he seemed … A devastatingly moving, explosive psychological thriller from the international bestselling author of A Suitable Lie.'Disturbing but compulsive … I loved it' Martina Cole'Bristling with unease, this is domestic noir at its very darkest, twisting the marriage thriller into a new and ...

In this One Life to Live tie-in novel, Jamie Ferrara is a spunky, attractive detective engaged to Rod Wolenski, the Chief of Detectives, seeking answers in her friend's murder and battling old feelings for Garth, the boy who broke her heart.

The New York Commuter's Glossary is a collection of words and phrases--neologisms, mashups, made-up terms--that defines the life of the train commuter into, out of, and around New York City, from the tense fight for leg room with the rider facing you ("kneegotiations"), to the frightening feeling of waking up on the train and bolting for the door, certain that the present stop is your own ("tramnesia"), to the husband and wife pairs that ride together each day ("train couplings") to the al...

A bold vision about the ways companies will adapt and be reborn in a revolutionary world where business models implode and the search is on for what will work. . . .The fate of newspapers and the music industry is a harbinger of what awaits every company: an aging business model in its death throes as people finally wake up to the grim fact that their products and the way they deliver them are completely out of sync not only with what customers want but how they want it. But Michae...

Europe, 1911. The veneer of the Belle Epoque crumbles as tensions grow across the continent. New discoveries, strange rumors, and an unshakeable sense of progress culminate to the most fantastic quest of all: the search for the Holy Grail. Enter Otto Lang, a German ex-policeman searching for anything to reinvigorate an adrift life touched with tragedy and disappointment. Otto finds himself thrust into a crossroads of academia, occult intrigue, and outright madness. Surrounded by threats bo...

This issue of Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, guest edited by Dr. Michael Malone, is devoted to Infectious Disease. Articles in this issue include: Tick-borne Illnesses; Mosquito-Borne Diseases; Mite and Bed Bug Infections; Pertussis; Skin and Soft Tissue Infections; UTI Antibiotic Resistance in the U.S; Emergence of Global Antibiotic Resistance; Guidelines for the Evaluation and Treatment of Pneumonia; Common Central Nervous System Infections; Common Gastrointestinal Infections;...

Where it all began ....An old man is found murdered in his Glasgow flat. DI Ray McBain is called to the scene and is the first to notice that the man's wounds mirror the Stigmata. The police quickly discover that the victim is a former janitor who worked in several care homes where he abused his charges. Is someone taking revenge thirty years after the fact?McBain, as a child was a resident of Bethlehem House, a Catholic run care home where the murdered man worked and early...

Annie and Lewis search for the son of an old enemy, who may hold the key to ending Annie's curse. Their investigations lead back to the past, uncovering something that could destroy the most powerful people in the country. The compelling, chilling next instalment in the Annie Jackson Mysteries series…'A tense, creepy page-turner' Ian Rankin'Spine-tinglingly thrilling with an extraordinary sense of place' Caro Ramsay...