Looking for how to avoid inconvenient culture techniques when you suspect toenail fungus? Here's an easy in-office way to diagnose the condition.

To reduce the risk of antibiotic-associated diarrhea, I recommend yogurt with live cultures. The yogurt also helps settle diarrhea after a bout of gastroenteritis....

As physicians, we need to remind ourselves that congestive heart failure (CHF) is not a diagnosis but rather a complex of symptoms with one or more of five major causes: myocardial ischemia, valvular heart disease, chronic hypertension, arrhythmias, or cardiomyopathy. Thus, if a patient has symptoms of CHF, the diagnosis would be CHF secondary to one of those five causes.

Easy chairs are anything but easy. A captain's chair with a firm seat that is higher than the standard height will aid the mobility-impaired senior citizen in maintaining the ability to transfer.

Storing fish-oil tablets in the freezer will eliminate the fishy smell and aftertaste.

Remind male patients to do testicular self-exam as often as you recommend breast self-exam to female patients.

Review the schedule for the following day's patients and jot down notes regarding issues to follow up on from a previous visit....