Internal Medicine
Internal medicine is the specialty of medicine involved in treating and managing unusual or serious diseases. Internal medicine physicians are also called internists. Internal medicine is an umbrella specialty area that encompasses many subspecialties, including cardiology and neurology. The internal medicine portal collects and indexes all of the contributors and content in these areas, with topics including appendicitis, chronic pain, and sinusitis. This portal also contains articles related to internal medicine that have been requested, but not yet filled by Medpedia contributors.
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- 2q37 deletion syndrome
- Clinical: Abdominal Pain
- Acromegaly
- Acute Pancreatitis
- Addison's Disease
- Adefovir
- Adhesions
- Adrenal Gland Disorders
- Adult Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
- Adult Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
- Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum
- AIDS-Related Lymphoma
- Alagille Syndrome
- Alemtuzumab
- Alitretinoin
- Allergy and Autoimmune Disorders
- Allergy vs. Cold
- Alopecia Areata
- Alport Syndrome
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Amblyopia
- Amenorrhea
- American Sign Language
- Amiodarone
- Amyloidosis and Kidney Disease
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
- Angina
- Angina Pectoris
- Anthrax
- Antidiabetic drugs
- Clinical: Anxiety Disorders in Later Life
- Aphasia
- Appendicitis
- Apraxia
- Arrhythmia
- Arthritis
- Asthma
- Ataxias and Cerebellar or Spinocerebellar Degeneration
- Atorvastatin
- Atrial Fibrillation
- Auditory Processing Disorder
- Autoimmune Hepatitis
- Back Pain
- Clinical: Back Pain
- Bacterial Vaginosis
- Balance Disorders
- Clinical: Balance Disorders
- Balsalazide
- Barrett's Esophagus
- Bell's Palsy
- Benign Breast Problems
- Bexarotene
- Clinical: Binge Eating Disorder
- Biology of the Influenza Virus
- Bladder Cancer
- Blood Cancer
- Botulism
- Brain Tumors
- Breast Cancer Treatment and Pregnancy
- Brompton Cocktail
- Brown-Sequard Syndrome
- Brucellosis
- Cancer
- Cardiac Catheterization
- Cardiac Stent
- Clinical: Cardiovascular disease
- Cardiovascular Disease in the Developing World
- Cardiovascular System
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- Clinical: Case Study:Patient Centered Breast Cancer Care
- Clinical: Case Study:Pelvic Pain
- Clinical: Case Study: Biorhythms and Arrhythmias
- Clinical: Case Study: Diets and Women with Metabolic Syndrome
- Clinical: Case Study: PMS and Hormones
- Clinical: Case Study: Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
- Clinical: Case Study: Urinary Incontinence
- Cataract and Refractive Surgery
- Cat Scratch Disease
- Celiac Disease
- Celiac Disease and Osteoporosis
- Cellulitis
- Central Pontine Myelinolysis
- Cerebellar Degeneration
- Cerebral Arteriosclerosis
- Cervical Cancer
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease
- Chickenpox
- Chicken Pox
- Childhood Hodgkin Lymphoma
- Childhood Visual Pathway and Hypothalamic Glioma
- Chlamydia
- Cholera
- Chorea
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
- Chronic Hepatitis C
- Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP)
- Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
- Chronic Pain
- Cinacalcet
- Citrullinemia
- Cockayne Syndrome
- Coffin-Lowry Syndrome
- Cold Stress
- Collagenous Colitis and Lymphocytic Colitis
- Colon Cancer
- Color Vision Deficiency
- Colpocephaly
- Coma and Persistent Vegetative State
- Common Cold
- Clinical: Common cold
- Clinical: Community-Acquired Pneumonia
- Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
- Clinical: Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
- Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia
- Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS)
- Congenital Hypothyroidism
- Congenital Myasthenia
- Congenital Myopathy
- Conivaptan
- Constipation
- Cornelia de Lange Syndrome
- Coronary Microvascular Disease
- Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
- Cri-du-chat Syndrome
- Crohn's Disease
- Cryptosporidiosis
- Clinical: Culture Negative Surgical Site Infections
- Cushing Syndrome
- Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (ATP-binding cassette sub-family C, member 7) (CFTR)
- Cystinosis
- Cystinuria
- Dandy-Walker Syndrome
- Deferasirox
- Dementia
- Dementia With Lewy Bodies
- Dercum's Disease
- Dermatitis Herpetiformis: Skin Manifestation of Celiac Disease
- Dermatomyositis
- Development of Blood Vessels
- Development of Cardiovascular System
- Development of Heart
- Dextroamphetamine and Amphetamine
- Diabetes
- Diabetes: Heart and Blood Vessel Problems
- Diabetes and About Osteoporosis
- Diabetes and Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- Diabetes and Eye Problems
- Diabetes and Kidney Problems
- Diabetes Control and Complications Trial
- Diabetes Insipidus
- Diabetes Pills
- Clinical: Diabetic nephropathy
- Diabetic Neuropathy
- Diabetic Retinopathy
- Diagnosis and management of complex regional pain syndrome
- Diagnostic Testing for Influenza
- Diarrhea
- Diphtheria
- Diverticulosis and Diverticulitis
- Donepezil
- Down Syndrome
- Doxercalciferol
- Dravet Syndrome
- Duchenne and Becker Muscular Dystrophy
- Duloxetine
- Duragesic
- Dysautonomia
- Dyslexia
- Dyssynergia Cerebellaris Myoclonica
- Dystonia
- Ecthyma and Ecthyma Gangrenosum
- Ehrlichiosis and Anaplasmosis
- Eletriptan
- Empty Sella Syndrome
- Encephalitis
- Encephalocele
- Enlarged Vestibular Aqueducts (EVA)
- Entacapone
- Entecavir
- Epilepsy
- Epinastine
- Epstein-Barr Virus and Infectious Mononucleosis
- Erysipelas
- Clinical: Erysipelas
- Clinical: Erythema infectosum
- Essential Tremor
- Etanercept
- Exenatide
- Expert Opinions About a Flu Pandemic
- Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis
- Fabry's Disease
- Fahr Syndrome
- Familial Mediterranean Fever
- Familial Periodic Paralyses
- Fanconi Anemia
- Farber Disease
- Fat Malabsorption
- Febrile Seizures
- Fecal Incontinence
- Female Pseudohermaphroditism
- Fever
- Feverfew
- Fibromyalgia
- Clinical: Fibromyalgia
- Fifth Disease
- Flatulence
- Fluticasone/Salmeterol
- Fomivirsen
- Foodborne Illness
- Food Allergy
- Foot Drop
- Formoterol
- Fragile X Syndrome
- Friedreich's Ataxia
- Frontotemporal Dementia
- Frovatriptan
- Galantamine
- Gallstones
- Gangliosidoses
- Gastritis
- Gastro-Intestinal Issues in Down Syndrome
- Gastroenteritis
- Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD)
- Gastroparesis
- Gatifloxacin
- Gaucher's Disease
- Gemifloxacin
- Genital Herpes
- Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker Disease
- Gerstmann Syndrome
- Gestational Diabetes
- Gestational Trophoblastic Tumors
- Giardiasis
- Glossary: DIabetes
- Glossopharyngeal Neuralgia
- Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency
- Gonorrhea
- Gout
- Guillain-Barre Syndrome
- Hairy Cell Leukemia
- Hair Loss
- Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease
- Hashimoto's Disease
- Hashimoto's Thyroiditis
- Headache
- Heart
- Heart Block
- Heart Murmur
- Heart Surgery
- Hematuria
- Hemifacial Spasm
- Hemochromatosis
- Hemorrhoids
- Clinical: Hemorrhoids
- Henoch-Schönlein Purpura
- Hepatitis
- Hepatitis B
- Hereditary Neuropathies
- Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia
- High Blood Cholesterol
- Hirschsprung Disease
- HIV/AIDS
- Homocystinuria
- Hormonal System
- Human Papillomavirus and Genital Warts
- Human papilloma virus (HPV)
- Hydrocephalus
- Hyperkalemia
- Hyperthyroidism
- Hypoglycemia
- Clinical: Hypoglycemia
- Hypopharyngeal Cancer
- Hypothermia
- Hypothyroidism
- Ibuprofen
- IgA Nephropathy
- Immune System
- Inclusion Body Myositis
- Infantile Spasms
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Inflammatory Myopathies
- Influenza
- Influenza and Cytokine Storm
- Influenza H5N1 (Bird Flu) Viral Sequences Isolated from Patients
- Inguinal Hernia
- Iniencephaly
- Insomnia
- Insulin Resistance
- Intestinal Pseudo-Obstruction
- Iron Deficiency Anemia
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Clinical: Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Isaac Syndrome
- Islet Cell Carcinoma
- Jervell and Lange-Nielsen Syndrome
- Job Syndrome
- Juvenile Primary Lateral Sclerosis
- Kaposi Sarcoma
- Kearns-Sayre Syndrome
- Keeping Track of Blood Glucose
- Ketoacidemia
- Kidney Stones
- Kleine-Levin Syndrome
- Klinefelter Syndrome
- Kluver-Bucy
- Kuru
- Lactose Intolerance
- Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome
- Landau-Kleffner Syndrome
- Latex Allergy
- Learning Disabilities
- Leflunomide
- Legionellosis
- Leigh Disease
- Lenalidomide
- Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome
- Leprosy
- Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome
- Leukodystrophy
- Levalbuterol
- Lipoid Proteinosis
- Lip and Oral Cavity Cancer
- Lissencephaly
- Listeriosis
- Liver cancer
- Long QT Syndrome
- Loteprednol/tobramycin
- Clinical: Lubag Disease
- Lyme disease
- Lymphatic System
- Lymphocytopenia
- Machado-Joseph Disease
- Male Breast Cancer
- Malignant Hyperthermia
- Measles Rubeola
- Medium Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase (MCAD) Deficiency
- Melioidosis
- Melkersson-Rosenthal Syndrome
- Menetrier's Disease
- Meniere's Disease
- Meningitis
- Menkes Disease
- Meralgia Paresthetica
- Merkel Cell Carcinoma
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Metachromatic Leukodystrophy
- Metastatic Squamous Neck Cancer with Occult Primary
- Metformin
- Microcephaly
- Miglustat
- Migraine
- Miller Dieker syndrome
- Miller Fisher Syndrome
- Mitochondrial Myopathies
- Mobius Syndrome
- Modafinil
- Moyamoya Disease
- Mucolipidoses
- Mucopolysaccharidoses
- Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1
- Multiple Myeloma and Other Plasma Cell Neoplasms
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Multiple System Atrophy
- Muscular Dystrophy
- Myasthenia Gravis
- Mycosis Fungoides and the Sezary Syndrome
- Myoclonus
- Myotonia
- Myotonia Congenita
- Myotonic Dystrophy
- Naratriptan
- Narcolepsy
- Nasopharyngeal Cancer
- National Hypertension Association
- Nausea
- Nelarabine
- Neonatal Jaundice
- Neuroacanthocytosis
- Neurodegeneration with Brain Iron Accumulation
- Neurofibromatosis Type 2
- Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome
- Neurological Complications Of Lyme Disease
- Neurological Consequences of Cytomegalovirus Infection
- Neurological Sequelae Of Lupus
- Neuromyelitis Optica
- Neuronal Migration Disorders
- Neurosarcoidosis
- Niemann-Pick Disease
- Night Blindness
- Nitisinone
- Noise and Hearing Loss Prevention
- Noise Induced Hearing Loss
- Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
- Nonsyndromic Deafness
- Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
- Obesity
- Clinical: Obesity
- Occipital Neuralgia
- Ocular albinism
- Oculocutaneous albinism II (OCA2)
- Opsoclonus Myoclonus
- Oral Sex and HIV Risk
- Orlistat
- Oseltamivir Phosphate
- Osteonecrosis
- Otosclerosis
- Ovarian Epithelial Cancer
- Ovarian Germ Cell Tumors
- Ovarian Low Malignant Potential Tumors
- Overweight and Obesity
- Overweight and Obesity Statistcs and Information
- Paget Disease of the Nipple
- Pain
- Palifermin
- Palpitation
- Pancreatic Cancer
- Pandemic Flu
- Pantoprazole
- Paranasal Sinus and Nasal Cavity Cancer
- Parathyroid Cancer
- Paresthesia
- Paricalcitol
- Parkinson's Disease
- Paroxysmal Hemicrania
- Pediatric Rheumatology
- Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
- Pelvic Pain
- Pemphigus
- Penile Cancer
- Peppermint Oil
- Peptic Ulcer
- Periventricular Leukomalacia
- Pernicious Anemia
- Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome
- Phantom Limb Pain
- Clinical: Pharyngitis
- Phenylketonuria
- Pioglitazone
- Pituitary Tumors
- Pituitary Tumors in Children
- Plague
- Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
- Polymicrogyria
- Polymyalgia Rheumatica and Giant Cell Arteritis
- Polymyositis
- Pompe Disease
- Porencephaly
- Porphyria
- Postural Tachycardia Syndrome
- Prader-Willi Syndrome
- Precocious Puberty
- Pregnancy and Thyroid Disease
- Premature Ovarian Failure
- Presbycusis
- Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
- Primary CNS Lymphoma
- Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis
- Prion Diseases
- Proctitis
- Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy
- Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
- Prolactinoma
- Promethazine
- Prosopagnosia
- Prostate Cancer
- Proteinuria
- Pseudotumor Cerebri
- Psycho-Oncology
- Pubic Crab Lice
- Q Fever
- Rabeprazole Sodium
- Ramelteon
- Ranolazine
- Rapid Strep Test
- Rasmussen Encephalitis
- Rat-bite Fever
- Rectal Cancer
- Clinical: Rectocele
- Refsum Disease
- Renal Artery Stenosis
- Renal Cell Cancer
- Renal Tubular Acidosis
- Restless Legs Syndrome
- Rett Syndrome
- Reye's Syndrome
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Clinical: Rheumatoid Arthritis and The Menstrual Cycle
- Rheumatoid Arthritis Medicines
- Ringing in the Ear (Tinnitus)
- Rituximab
- Rivastigmine Tartrate
- Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
- Romano-Ward Syndrome
- Rosuvastatin
- Rothmund-Thomson Syndrome
- Rubinstein-Taybi Syndrome
- Sarcoidosis
- Scarlet Fever
- Clinical: Scottish Diabetic Retinopathy Grading Scheme v 2007
- Sepsis
- Severe Asthma Research Program
- Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID)
- Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs)
- Shingles
- Sinusitis
- Sjogren's Syndrome
- Skin Rash and HIV
- Sleep
- Sleep Apnea
- Clinical: Sleep Disorders and Related Psychiatric Conditions
- Sleep Studies
- Smallpox
- Smell Disorders
- Spinal Manipulation for Low-Back Pain
- Spina Bifida
- St. Louis Encephalitis
- Staphylococcal Food Poisoning
- Steps to Lower Your Risk of Getting Diabetes
- Streptococcal Infections
- Stroke
- Stuttering
- Sudden Cardiac Arrest
- Sudden Hearing Loss or Deafness
- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
- SUNCT Headache
- Swine Flu: When an Outbreak is a Pandemic
- Symptom Scale for Influenza H5N1 (Bird Flu)
- Clinical: Syncope
- Syncope (Fainting After Vaccination)
- Syphilis
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
- Take Charge of Your Diabetes
- Tangier Disease
- Tay-Sachs Disease
- Tegaserod
- Telbivudine
- Testicular Cancer
- Testing for Celiac Disease
- Tetanus
- The Economic Costs of Overweight, Obesity and Physical Inactivity Among California Adults (2006)
- Thyroid Cancer
- Tinidazole
- Todd Paralysis
- Tolcapone
- Transient Ischemic Attack
- Transitional Cell Cancer
- Transverse Myelitis
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Clinical: Treating Catatonia in Autism
- Tremor
- Trichomonas Infection
- Trigeminal Neuralgia
- Trisomy 13
- Trisomy 18
- Tropical Spastic Paraparesis
- Trospium
- Tuberculosis
- Tuberculosis and HIV Coinfection
- Tuberous Sclerosis
- Tularemia
- Turner Syndrome
- Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
- Typhoid Fever
- Tyrosinase (oculocutaneous albinism IA) (TYR)
- Tyrosinemia
- Ulcerative Colitis
- Unusual Cancers of Childhood
- Urethral Cancer
- Urinary Incontinence in Children
- Usher Syndrome
- Vasculitis Syndromes of the Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems
- Verteporfin
- Vestibular Schwannoma and Neurofibromatosis
- Viral Gastroenteritis
- Vitamin B6
- Vocal Cord Paralysis
- Von Hippel-Lindau Disease (VHL)
- Vorinostat
- Vulvar Cancer
- Wallenberg's Syndrome
- Werner Syndrome
- Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome
- Whipple's Disease
- Williams Syndrome
- Wilson's Disease
- Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome
- Wolman disease
- X-linked Severe Combined Immunodeficiency
- Zanamivir
- Zellweger Syndrome
- Zoledronic Acid
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