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Going beyond the surface material: A podcast episode on cellulitis

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Practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of skin and soft tissue infections: 2014 update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Clin Infect Dis 2014; 59:e10. If you think that there’s an abscess, you can diagnose it clinically by a localized area of induration or fluctuance or use an ultrasound.

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Podcast Episode: Febrile Seizures

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Common variants associated with general and MMR vaccine-related febrile seizures. Nat Genet 2014; 46:1274. Vaccines don’t cause autism, but they might cause febrile seizures. The absolute risk is small, and genetic susceptibility likely plays a role in seizures after vaccines. So again, pretty darn low.

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