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Many patients admitted to the hospital have diabetes mellitus-diagnosed or undiagnosed-and others develop hyperglycemia from the stress of hospitalization. This paper discusses the prevalence, outcomes, and evidence for best management of hyperglycemia and diabetes in hospitalized patients outside the critical care setting.

The clinical features, action spectrum and subsequent course, are described in 33 subjects with thiazide-induced photosensitivity. The reaction appeared to be phototoxic in nature. The wavelengths involved were those of the longer UVA and, not infrequently, also the shorter UVB waveband. In most instances withdrawal of the drug resulted in clearance of the clinical reaction and a return of the action spectrum to normal. In the few subjects in whom the photosensitivity persisted, either in the form of the clinical reaction or an abnormal action spectrum, or both, either a specific photodermatosis was present or another potentially photoactive drug was being taken...