Modern Medicine - Volume 12, Issue 7, July 1987

With this issue, MODERN MEDICINE begins a new series of articles - one that we call Tomorrow's Medicine Today - which explains in straightforward terms the practical aspects and clinical relevance of molecular and cellular biology.

Tomorrow's Medicine Today is a series of articles that explains, with a focus on problems encountered in everyday clinical practice, the advances in medical practice at the molecular and cellular levels.

First-generation cephalosporins have a spectrum of activity that includes pyogenic cocci and a small number of community-acquired coliforms.

Drug fever should be suspected when fever occurs when a drug is administered or shortly thereafter, when the patient's temperature rises unexpectedly during a course of drug therapy, or when there are other indications of hypersensitivity, such as rash, eosinophilia, urticaria, or serum sickness.

The patient with gonorrhoea may present with urethral, cervical, pharyngeal, or anorectal infection.

Dual-photon absorptiometry and CT are more sensitive than conventional X-ray in measuring bone loss in primary osteoporosis.

Chronic blisters in the elderly are uncommon, but do occur and require careful differentiation.