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With the recent approval of rivaroxaban for an orthopedic indication, there are now two new oral anticoagulants available in the United States, after a more-than-half-century lapse since warfarin was approved.

While mankind has always shown interest in sleep and dreaming, it has been the scientific study of sleep over the last 3 centuries that has established the roots of modern sleep medicine.

Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate that approximately 1 million persons in the United States are living with HIV and more than 18,000 persons with AIDS die each year. Pulmonary diseases account for a large percentage of HIV-related complications and pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a noninfectious complication of HIV infection (Morris et al. Proc Am Thorac Soc. 2011;8[1]:17). PAH is reported to occur at an increased frequency in HIV-infected individuals compared with uninfected individuals.

The clinical syndrome now known as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has a long history.

Volume 25, Lesson 5

Take advantage of this unique educational program offered by the ACCP. Each month, a distinguished editorial board of expert clinicians will provide two lessons, featuring timely, concise, diagnostic information on current pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine issues. Earn up to 24.0 AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s)™. One (1) credit will be awarded for each completed lesson.

The Department of Health and Human Services has launched its Healthy People 2020 goals, and among the objectives set forth in its “ambitious, yet achievable” 10-year agenda for improving the nation’s health are substantial improvements in sleep health, respiratory disease outcomes, and levels of tobacco use.

After completing my pulmonary and critical care fellowship, I was offered a position of director of MICU in a 600-bed county hospital. For the first several years, I was completely engrossed in improving patient care, teaching of fellows, and institution of guidelines in this unit. I received local recognition for my efforts but realized that I was a "frog in a well."

Bacteremia secondary to pneumonia caused by carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae carries a high mortality rate, but combination antimicrobial regimens involving polymyxins, tigecycline, or carbapenems improve survival compared with monotherapy, according to the findings of an observational treatment study conducted at two medical centers.

People who smoked two packs of cigarettes or more a day at midlife were more than twice as likely as nonsmokers to develop dementia and dementia subtypes such as Alzheimer’s disease, according to a recent report.