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  • Treating depression in pregnancy: Practical suggestions
    Lilian Gonsalves, MD and Isabel Schuermeyer, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2006, 73 (12) 1098-1104;

    Treating depression in a pregnant woman is a balance between relieving the mother’s depression and minimizing the baby’s exposure to potentially harmful drugs.

  • Index to Volume 73
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2006, 73 (12) 1105-1110;
  • Role of uric acid in hypertension, renal disease, and metabolic syndrome
    Marcelo Heinig, MD and Richard J. Johnson, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2006, 73 (12) 1059-1064;

    Clinical gout is just the tip of the iceberg: we believe that elevated uric acid is actually one of the most important risk factors for cardiovascular disease and that it plays a role in renal disease and metabolic syndrome as well.

  • Hope drives antiaging hype
    Thomas T. Perls, MD, MPH
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2006, 73 (12) 1039-1044;

    The road to perpetual youth is paved with (fool’s) gold.

  • PET and PET/CT imaging: What clinicians need to know
    PET and PET/CT imaging: What clinicians need to know
    Bohdan Bybel, MD, Richard C. Brunken, MD, Shetal N. Shah, MD, Guiyun Wu, MD, Elliott Turbiner, DO and Donald R. Neumann, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2006, 73 (12) 1075-1087;

    How positron emission tomography (PET) and PET/computed tomography (PET/CT) work and are showing promise in clinical oncology, cardiology, and neurology.

  • Antioxidants and hormones as antiaging therapies: High hopes, disappointing results
    Nabil S. Kamel, MB, BCh, Julie Gammack, MD, Oscar Cepeda, MD and Joseph H. Flaherty, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2006, 73 (12) 1049-1058;

    We review the evidence of efficacy (or lack thereof) for two types of agents touted as antiaging therapies.

  • Cystic fibrosis in adults: An overview for the internist
    Ari J. Gershman, DO, Atul C. Mehta, MB, BS, Michael Infeld, MD and Marie M. Budev, DO
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2006, 73 (12) 1065-1074;

    Cystic fibrosis is no longer a purely pediatric disease; the median life expectancy is now more than 40 years.

  • A woman with aplastic anemia and a rash
    Ila Tamaskar, MD, Ena Segota, MD, Matt Kalaycio, MD and Jaroslaw Maciejewski, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2006, 73 (12) 1088-1090;

    A patient who is receiving multiple drugs, including several antibiotics, develops a rash on her chest, abdomen, and extremities. What is the most likely diagnosis?

  • Health care worker, vaccinate thyself: Toward better compliance with influenza vaccination
    Steven M. Gordon, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2006, 73 (11) 965-966;

    At our hospital, workers can decline to be vaccinated, but everyone must go to our Web site and be counted.

  • Endocrinology update 2006
    S. Sethu K. Reddy, MD, MBA
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2006, 73 (11) 1019-1024;

    Recent studies have shed light on diabetes management, the therapeutic range of thyroid hormones, the possible role of thyroxine in cancer, and the possible role of vitamin D in preventing type 1 diabetes.

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