Internal Medicine Pharmacotherapy

A 48 year old male is admitted to the hospital after experiencing a fever and malaise for several days.  He states that he has some shortn...

A new guideline from the American College of Physicians for the management of acute and recurrent gout makes a few recommendations based o...

(Click to enlarge) Vancomycin was the first antibiotic developed of the glycopeptide class.  It is termed "glyco-" becaus...

Metformin is the preferred initial pharmacologic therapy in every patient with type 2 diabetes mellitus who does not have a contraindicati...

Linezolid (Zyvox) is one of only two antibiotics currently on the market in the oxazolidinone class (see what the other one is at the ...

A 58 year old male patient presents to the emergency room with shortness of breath for the last few days.  He also complains of chills, a ...