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- When snoring is more than an annoyance
We should vigilantly look for obstructive sleep apnea and, if it is diagnosed, strongly encourage treatment.
- Smart testing: An old idea, a new series
We hope to change test-ordering behaviors in situations in which there is a smart—and a not-so-smart—way to pursue a diagnosis.
- COPD: More options mean potentially better control
Although newer drugs can improve control, to make the biggest impact on mortality we need to wage war on smoking.
- The generalist, the specialist, and the patient with chronic kidney disease
Comanagement of patients who have a chronic disease is often a challenge.
- Appreciating the appetite for reflective practice
Twenty-five years later, I still think about eating disorders when I evaluate young women who have severe fibromyalgia.
- New practice guidelines: Constrained or enhanced by the evidence?
The new guidelines on cholesterol and hypertension are more evidence-based, but will they help improve outcomes?
- The impact of anti-TNF therapy on the nonspecialist
These drugs are being used in a growing number of diseases. We all need to increase our familiarity with their unique risks.
- Return of the ‘pisse-mongers,’ this time with data
Urinalysis may be the oldest surviving laboratory test. Both Hippocrates and Galen recognized its value.
- To Phil, adieu with many thanks and much gratitude
Phil Canuto, the executive editor of the Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine for almost 20 years, is retiring.
- When people with diabetes go to surgery
A key take-home point is that severely insulinopenic patients require some exogenous basal insulin, even when not eating.