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A 57-year-old woman is evaluated for a 4-month history of progressive exertionaldyspnea and occasional chest pain and palpitations. She has limited cutaneoussystemic sclerosis with Raynaud phenomenon and gastroesophageal refluxdisease. Click to see the physical and lab results and see if you can choose the bestnext step.

This case study describes an adult man with a history of diabetes and hypertension presenting with painful lesions on his arms and legs. The description covers the course of his workup for presumptive infectious dermatitis through differential diagnosis when the infectious disease workup revealed sterile lesions, to the final diagnosis of Sweet syndrome (acute febrile neutrophilic dermatosis).

Physicians commonly encounter patients with facial pigmented macules. In this patient, the diagnosis was Carney complex.

‘Bikini medicine’ (see the Boston Globe article) is an outdated, sexist idea that men and women should be cared for similarly — dubbed as such due to the mistaken belief that women’s health only differs in the parts of women that bikinis cover. A ridiculous notion, considering that cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, and autoimmune diseases affect women differently than men. Last time we checked, the bikini doesn’t cover any of them.

Eight million people across the US have psoriasis, and it’s estimated that 30% of those will also develop psoriatic arthritis (PsA). Here’s the former ‘NSYNC artist on his diagnosis, treatment, and how he’s managing now that he’s the father of twins.

A report from the European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology (EULAR) annual meeting showed that, among 27 people with RA diagnoses, 13 had scores on the 14-item Changes in Sexual Functioning Questionnaire (CSFQ) in the range indicative of sexual dysfunction. In addition, the above was also true for 22 of 72 PsA patients.