This best-selling reference is newly revised with a thorough updating of all disease entries -- more than 600 in all. Also includes 35 added disease entries, including vancomycin-resistant infections, Ebola virus infection, fibromyalgia, and c. difficile infection; an eye-catching logo to highlight clinical tips; and additional popular patient-teaching checklists. Contents include contributors and consultants, foreword, important diseases (in alphabetical order), less common diseases and disorders, selected references, and an index.