From the Editor
- - CME reduction redux: While less isn’t more, it’s better than none
    John D. Clough, MD and Peter G. Studer
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2002, 69 (6) 447;
    Like it or not, we have to follow ACCME rules. Other news: Your next certificate of CME credit will be a postcard—watch your mailbox.
1-Minute Consult
- - Which medications should be held before a pharmacologic or exercise stress test?
    Donald A. Underwood, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2002, 69 (6) 449-450;
    This depends on the reason for the rest, whether the patient can safely do without the medication, and the type of test.
Im Board Review
- - A young man with hyperthermia and new-onset seizures
    David L. Longworth, MD, James K. Stoller, MD, John R. Queen, MD and Jonathan Glauser, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2002, 69 (6) 453-464;
    What is the cause of this patient’s symptoms? A self-test.
Editorial
- - Drug smuggling raises medical and legal issues
    Joseph Rella, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2002, 69 (6) 465-466;
    Smugglers are swallowing massive amounts of cocaine packaged in balloons or condoms. The treatment is controversial. And then there are ethical and legal questions.
Review
- - Educating travelers about malaria: Dealing with resistance and patient noncompliance
    Kenneth Dardick, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2002, 69 (6) 469-479;
    Plasmodium has developed resistance to antimalarial drugs in vast areas of the world, making malaria more difficult to prevent.
Patient Information
- - Protecting yourself against malaria
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2002, 69 (6) 480;
Review
- - Idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy: A common but mystifying cause of heart failure
    Siva B. Mohan, MD, Miriam Parker, MD, Mohammad Wehbi, MD and Paul Douglass, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2002, 69 (6) 481-487;
    In most cases, dilated cardiomyopathy has no known That shouldn’t stop you from looking for one.
  - Women and headache: A treatment approach based on life stages
    Lisa K. Mannix, MD, Merle Diamond, MD and Elizabeth Loder, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2002, 69 (6) 488-500;
    The preventive, abortive, and nonpharmacologic approaches to headache treatment vary during the stages of a woman’s life.
Medical Grand Rounds
- - Update on kidney transplantation: Increasing clinical success, expanding waiting lists
    William E. Braun, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2002, 69 (6) 501-504;
    Success rates are improving, but the need for organs continues to far exceed the supply.
  - Intensive care update: Seven studies that should change your practice
    Alejandro C. Arroliga, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2002, 69 (6) 505-508;
    Some of these studies lay to rest widely used but ineffective therapies; others challenge us to establish new standards of care.
Departments
- - Prosthetic heart valves (January 2002)
    David H. Hsi, MD and Gerald F. Ryan, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2002, 69 (6) 448;
    Remembering some pioneers in heart-valve replacement.