There are nonpharmacological approaches to managing behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia and the difficulties associated with evaluating and implementing these approaches.

Specialty training in preventive medicine best equips physicians to address the population health challenges that confront U.S. and global health care in the 21st century.

Neutral, nondirective counseling of women who are about to give birth to extremely premature infants can undermine their autonomous decision making rather than promoting it.

Strategies to manage hypertension and prehypertension are available.

When a child or family begins to stand out because of patterns in history or physical findings, physicians must determine whether to take a closer look at the situation.

The principal therapies for type 2 diabetes and the benefits and possible side effects associated with each.

Generalist physicians should be aware of the many air-, water-, and food-borne toxins that can trigger and exacerbate illness.

Knowledge of women's physiology, in health and in disease states, deserves attention as a specialized field of study.

Physicians should provide women considering abortion after Down syndrome screening with unbiased information and not attempt to influence their decision.

A guardian’s request to sterilize a woman with intellectual disabilities is not ethically justifiable unless the woman assents and it is to her benefit.