Vol. 6 No. 2 (2014): March/April 2014

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Forty-seven states and Washington D.C. have passed legislation in protecting student-athletes, but concussions still occur.  Symptoms can involve somatic, cognitive, and behavioral disturbances.  Moreover, many athletes underreport their symptoms. Currently, the Concussion Reco...

Insomnia, one of the most common complaints seen in the primary care office, affects at least 30% of the U.S. adult population at an estimated cost to the healthcare system of $241 billion annually. A number of medications—both over-the-counter (OTC) and prescription—are used to tre...

Hallucinations often occur in the context of a variety of psychiatric, substance use, and medical conditions. Recent research has also shown that hallucinatory events may occur in the absence of any organic or known psychiatric disorders.  This article reviews the types of hallucina...

Sutures have traditionally been used in the emergency room and in the primary care setting for wound and laceration closure, but over the past several decades we have seen alternative methods of wound closure emerge. Tissue adhesives are starting to become the front-runner as the alterna...

Research into evidence-based medicine has yielded a large number of clinical calculators and nomograms to aid physicians with the care of patients. This article describes three apps that make these evidence-based tools easily accessible and readily available at the point of care of the p...

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