Latest Articles
- Cervical cancer screening in high-risk patients: Clinical challenges in primary care
The authors provide up-to-date guidance on cervical cancer screening, surveillance, and management for high-risk patients.
- Skin manifestations in a patient with acute bacterial infective endocarditis
During a dialysis session, the patient experienced the onset of rigors accompanied by the appearance of painless purpuric lesions, which developed into petechiae.
- What are options for my patients with erectile dysfunction who have an unsatisfactory response to PDE5 inhibitors?
Alternative therapies include intracavernosal injection, vacuum erection devices, and penile prosthesis implantation.
- Effective but inaccessible antiobesity medications: A call for sharing responsibility for improving access to evidence-based care
The potentially transformative benefits of second-generation obesity medications have yet to be realized because many patients lack access to these medications.
A man with chronic limb-threatening ischemia and no revascularization options: Can we save his foot?The patient’s right foot was edematous with extensive, dry-appearing gangrene of the big toe, and no pedal pulses were felt.
- The history of blood cultures: From the research laboratory to the bedside
Efforts to prove that bacteria cause endocarditis paved the way for use of blood cultures in the clinic.
- The PRECISE trial: How should patients with chest pain be tested?
Can a risk score identify individuals with chest pain who can safely forego testing?
- It’s time for a little history of medicine—introducing a new feature in CCJM
This month, we debut a feature focused on topics in the history of medicine, authored by Cleveland Clinic rheumatologist Adam Brown, MD.
- Continuous glucose monitoring: High-tech devices still need some low-tech backup
High-end devices that monitor patients’ physiology offer many benefits, but device malfunctions and disruptions are not rare events.
