This issue of Medical Clinics of North America, guest edited by Paul S. Pottinger and Christopher A. Sanford, is devoted to Travel and Adventure Medicine. Articles in this issue include: Immunizations; Malaria; Personal Protection Measures; Traveler’s Diarrhea; Urban Medicine and Trauma; Care of the Healthcare Provider; Evaluation of the Ill Returned Traveler; The Ethics of Medical Volunteerism; High-Altitude Medicine; Dive Medicine; Wilderness Medicine, Including First Aid & Hypo/Hyperthermia; The Medical Kit; Adventure Sports: Spelunking, water exposures; and Resources for the Provider and Opportunities in Further Training in Travel and Adventure Medicine.

Drs. Eric Weiss and Douglas Sward have assembled an expert team of authors on the topic of Wilderness and Environmental Medicine. Article topics include: Advances in the Prevention and Treatment of High Altitude Illness; Out-of-hospital Evaluation and Treatment of Accidental Hypothermia; Arthropod Envenomation in North America; North American Snake Envenomation; Cutting Edge Management of Frostbite;Updates in Decompression Illness; Marine Envenomation; Is There a Doctor on Board: Medical Emergencies at 40,000 Feet; Translating Battlefield Medicine to Wilderness Medicine; The Application of Point-of-Care Ultrasound to Austere Environments; Wilderness EMS Systems; Preparing for International Travel & Global Medical Care; and Medical-legal Issues in Expedition and Wilderness Medicine.

This issue of Medical Clinics of North America, Guest Edited by Charles Argoff, MD is devoted to Chronic Pain Management. Dr. Argoff has assembled a group of expert authors to review the following topics: Chronic Pain Management: An Overview of Taxonomy, Conditions Commonly Encountered, and Assessment; The Acute to Chronic Pain Transition: Can Chronic Pain Be Prevented?; What Do We Know About the Pathophysiology of Chronic Pain? Implications for Treatment Considerations; An Overview of Pharmacologic Management of Chronic Pain; An Overview of Nonmedical Treatment of Chronic Pain; Managing Chronic Headache Disorders; Managing Osteoarthritis and Other Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain Disorders; Managing Neuropathic Pain; Managing Low Back and Other Spinal Pain Disorders; Exploring the Use of Chronic Opioid Therapy for Chronic Pain: When, How and for Whom?; The Role of Invasive Pain Management Modalities in the Treatment of Chronic Pain; Multimodal Management of Chronic Pain: What is the Evidence?; Managing Chronic Pain in Special Populations; and The Future of Pain Management as a Subspecialty: Meeting the Needs of the Patients We Care For.

This issue of Medical Clinics of North America, guest edited by Roy Colven, MD, is devoted to Dermatology. Articles in this issue include: Topical Therapy Primer for the Non-dermatologist; The Role of Biologic Therapies in Dermatology; Commonly Used Non-biologic Systemic Therapies in Dermatology; Diseases of Skin Appendages: Acne, Alopecia, and Hyperhidrosis; Common Procedures in Dermatology; Skin Cancer Epidemiology, Detection, and Management; Psoriasis and Cardiovascular Disease; Cutaneous Adverse Drug Reactions; Consultative Inpatient Dermatology; Approach to the Patient with Diffuse Blisters; Teledermatology; Nail Disease for the Primary Care Provider; Rheumatologic Skin Disease; and Common Pediatric Skin Diseases.

This issue of Medical Clinics of North America, guest edited by Drs. Douglas Paauw and Kim O'Connor, is devoted to Pharmacologic Therapy. Articles in this issue include: Pharmacologic Therapies for Autoimmune and Rheumatologic Conditions; Pharmacologic Therapies for Ophthalmologic Conditions; Pharmacologic Therapies for Neurologic Conditions; Pharmacologic Therapies for Cardiac Conditions; Pharmacologic Therapies in Men’s Health; Pharmacologic Therapies in Anticoagulation; Pharmacologic Therapies in Women’s Health: Menopause Treatment and Contraception; Pharmacologic Therapies in GI disease; Pharmacologic Therapies in Pulmonology and Allergy; Pharmacologic Therapies for Substance Abuse; Pharmacologic Therapies in Infectious Disease; Pharmacologic Therapies for HIV; Pharmacologic Therapies in Type 2 DM; Pharmacologic Therapies in Musculoskeletal Conditions; and Osteoporosis Treatment.

This issue of Medical Clinics, guest edited by Drs. Marc Shalaby and Edward Bollard, is devoted to Quality Patient Care: Making Evidence-Based, High Value Choices. Articles in this issue include: Cardiovascular testing in asymptomatic patients: carotid duplex, cardiac stress testing, screen for PVD; Utility of echocardiogram in the evaluation of heart murmurs; Evidenced-based recommendations for the evaluation of palpitations in the primary care setting; Radiologic evaluation of common orthopedic complaints: low back pain, non-traumatic knee/shoulder/hip pain, and ankle injuries; Indications and usefulness of common injections for non-traumatic orthopedic complaints – shoulder, trochanteric bursa, epidural injections, tennis elbow, and knee; The evidence-based evaluation of chronic cough; Evaluation of uncomplicated headache; Evaluation of syncope; Pre-operative assessment: Cataract surgery, pre-operative EKG testing, screening for cardiopulmonary disease, urinalysis, coagulation studies, other lab assessments; The approach to occult GI bleed; The role of EGD surveillance for patients with Barrett’s esophagus; The evidence-based evaluation of iron deficiency anemia; Cancer screening in the elderly; Utilization and safety of common over the counter dietary/nutritional supplements, herbal agents and homeopathic compounds for disease prevention; Utilization of oxygen for the patient with dyspnea; IV fluids, enteral or parenteral nutrition; and Symptom control at the end of life.

This issue of Neurologic Clinics, edited by Dr. David Younger, is focused on Global and Domestic Public Health and Neuroepidemeiology. Topics covered in the issue include, but are not limited to research methods; gene-environment interplay; Alzheimer disease; headache disorders; multiple sclerosis and related disorders; lyme neuroborreliosis; cerebrovascular disease; neuro-oncology; community health needs assessment; and neurologic public health in the BRICS.