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What’s good about a vape device? Nothing really - let me explain. As a doctor you find out that conversation is the primary key to making a diagnosis. In the medical world we may call it the history, but I...

Wounds of the lower extremity have a host of different contributing causes, but in diabetic patients, the vast majority of wounds occur as a result of loss of protective sensation. Protective sensation is the ability to feel pain. Diabetic peripheral...

Managing foot wounds in the decompensated patient. One of the greatest challenges in foot care is wound prevention and wound management. Wounds come in all shapes and sizes, but there’s always one common denominator in wound care; a decompensated patient....

Methotrexate is an antimetabolite that works by inhibiting dihydrofolic reductase. This enzyme is important in the production of DNA. Methotrexate targets rapidly growing cells such as inflammatory cells in rheumatoid arthritis or psoriasis. Methotrexate was originally used as a cancer drug for malignancies including acute lymphoblastic leukemia and lymphomas.