State and national guidelines recommend that prescribing opioids for chronic pain should be based on patients’ progress towards mutually agreed on, objective treatment goals. Physicians lack practical advice on discussing goals. We lack research on how, when, and why patients with chronic pain discuss treatment goals during clinic visits.
Over a quarter of the world’s population is infected with Tuberculosis (TB)1 and 5-10% of cases of latent TB infection (LTBI) progress to active TB in an individual’s lifetime.Though screening tests are widely utilized for diagnosing LTBI, they are far from perfect.This describes a case of disseminated TB in a patient treated with aggressive immunosuppression after a false-negativeQuantiFERON-TB Gold test.
Endometriosis: ectopic endometrial tissue that responds to cyclical hormonal changes during a normal menstrual cycle, becoming trapped in an endometrioma and causing pain. NHPs have been used to study endometriosis: baboons, cynomolgus, rhesus, and marmoset monkeys.
