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    Pooja Cerrato, PharmD, BCPS and Steven Mawhorter, MD, DTM&H
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2025, 92 (2) 95-102; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.92a.24103

    The authors review the burden, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of influenza, COVID-19, and respiratory syncytial virus infection.

  • Matter of the heart: Prioritizing harm reduction in managing infective endocarditis associated with injection drug use
    Akhil Anand, MD, Jared Ontko, Jyothika Yermal, Kush Sehgal, MBBS and Ashley Cantu-Weinstein, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2024, 91 (12) 731-734; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.91a.24020

    Despite specialty society recommendations, many patients do not receive treatment for substance use disorder in conjunction with heart disease treatment.

  • Effective but inaccessible antiobesity medications: A call for sharing responsibility for improving access to evidence-based care
    Bartolome Burguera, MD, PhD, Marcio L. Griebeler, MD and W. Timothy Garvey, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2024, 91 (11) 671-676; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.91a.24068

    The potentially transformative benefits of second-generation obesity medications have yet to be realized because many patients lack access to these medications.

  • The PRECISE trial: How should patients with chest pain be tested?
    Rahul Aggarwal, MD, Ron Blankstein, MD and Deepak L. Bhatt, MD, MPH, MBA
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2024, 91 (11) 677-682; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.91a.24024

    Can a risk score identify individuals with chest pain who can safely forego testing?

  • Vaccine hesitancy in the time of COVID: How to manage a public health threat
    H. Clifford Lane, MD and Steven M. Gordon, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 2024, 91 (9) 565-573; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.91a.24062

    It is important to empower patients to be their own advocates while helping them sort through the data on vaccines, emphasizing what we know and where uncertainty remains.

  • Providing comfort: Caring for patients who wish to die in their home country
    Kelly Ferraro, MD, Sandhya Sharma, MD and Kimberly A. Indovina, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2024, 91 (5) 270-272; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.91a.23095

    The authors offer a framework for providing equitable care to terminally ill patients who seek the comfort of dying at home.

  • Artificial intelligence in clinical practice: A look at ChatGPT
    Artificial intelligence in clinical practice: A look at ChatGPT
    Jiawen Deng, MS-2, Kiyan Heybati, MS-3, MSc(c), Ye-Jean Park, MS-2, Fangwen Zhou, MSc(c) and Anthony Bozzo, MD, MSc, FRCSC
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2024, 91 (3) 173-180; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.91a.23070

    Artificial intelligence is developing rapidly, but caution is needed when interpreting results from studies in clinical settings involving general-purpose platforms like ChatGPT.

  • Hey, Doc: Could the 2023–2024 cold and flu season finally be the calm after the storm?
    Sherif Beniameen Mossad, MD, FACP, FIDSA, FAST
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2023, 90 (12) 729-734; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.90a.23088

    The author answers questions patients may have about the currently available influenza, COVID-19, and respiratory syncytial virus vaccines.

  • The new GFR equations: How will eliminating the race coefficient affect Black patients?
    Paul Merchant, MD, Crystal Gadegbeku, MD, FAHA, FACP, FASN, Ali Mehdi, MD, Med, FACP, FASN, George Thomas, MD, FACP, Georges Nakhoul, MD, MEd and Jonathan Taliercio, DO, FASN
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2023, 90 (11) 685-691; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.90a.22061

    The authors discuss the history of equations for the glomerular filtration rate and potential clinical consequences of the new equations.

  • Acute left-sided colonic diverticulitis: A surgeon’s perspective on the ACP guidelines
    Michael J. Klingler, MD, MS and Jeremy M. Lipman, MD, MHPE
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2023, 90 (7) 403-406; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.90a.22050

    The updated guidelines push for less-aggressive management of uncomplicated diverticulitis in select patients.

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