Septic arthritis is a disease that can have so many agents that predicting its outcome is very difficult. But fortunately the most common causes include bacteria that have many different antibiotics we can use.

Next week: Response to injury.

  Bronchiectasis is a topic that is always mentioned as a differential diagnosis of many pulmonary diseases, but it rarely is the diagnosis. This is because the incidence of bronchiectasis has not only decreased, but its diagnosis isn't very easy to catch.

Next week: Septic Artritis

  I was always intrigued as to how a case of neonatal jaundice could have gone on so long without a diagnosis. So in this episode I hope to review the topic and maybe help any of you who have some doubts about the topic so these cases become as rare as smallpox.

Next week: Bronchiectasis

Inflammatory bowel disease is actually the general description for two diseases:

1) Crohn's disease
2) Ulcerative Colitis

Clinically both diseases are similar in some respects and I imagine that in the past they were grouped together because of these clinical similarities. But recent studies have found that both actually have similar genetic markers and even similar response to certain therapies. So it seems they were far more related than initially thought.

Next Week: Neonatal Jaundice