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  • The health care ‘iron triangle’ and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
    Elmer Philip Lehman, MD, MPP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2015, 82 (2) 73-80; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.82a.14035

    There is no way to increase access, improve quality, and decrease costs all at the same time.

  • Quitting smoking (January 2015)
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2015, 82 (2) 114;
  • Genetics and hepatitis C: It’s good to be ‘CC’
    Genetics and hepatitis C: It’s good to be ‘CC’
    Jose Mari Parungao, MD, Ibrahim A. Hanouneh, MD, Binu John, MD, Naim Alkhouri, MD and Nizar N. Zein, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2015, 82 (2) 97-104; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.82a.14004

    In hepatitis C, people born with the IL28B CC genotype can count themselves luckier than those born with CT or TT.

  • Denosumab: A novel antiresorptive drug for osteoporosis
    Ernest Suresh, MD, FRCP and Bo Abrahamsen, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2015, 82 (2) 105-114; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.82a.13173

    What denosumab is, how it works, how well it works, and practical prescribing tips.

  • Syncope from a twiddled ICD
    Fatima Adhi, MD, Gurshawn Singh, MD, Wayne Tsuang, MD and Eduardo Mireles-Cabodevila, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2015, 82 (2) 81-82; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.82a.14095

    A patient playing (“twiddling”) with his or her implanted cardioverter-defibrillator can dislodge the lead.

  • The ‘skinny’ on eosinophilic esophagitis
    David A. Katzka, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2015, 82 (2) 83-88; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.82gr.14008

    Often starting in childhood, this disease progresses until the esophagus is visibly narrowed on radiography.

  • A new year and a new face for www.ccjm.org
    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2015, 82 (1) 9; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.82b.01015

    CCJM.org has a new look and new interactive features, but it remains open to all and free of charge. Log on and register.

  • Quitting smoking: Still a challenge, but newer tools show promise
    Quitting smoking: Still a challenge, but newer tools show promise
    Gregory B. Collins, MD, DFAPA, Jason M. Jerry, MD, FAPA and Robert Bales, MD, MPH, FAAFP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2015, 82 (1) 39-48; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.81a.14016

    Smoking continues to be a major public health problem with devastating consequences in terms of morbidity and mortality. Physicians are strongly encouraged to engage patients in a serious, concerted, and consistent effort to overcome nicotine addiction. Brief counseling in combination with medications has been shown to be effective. This article provides physicians guidelines for helping patients to quit this addictive disorder.

  • Insulin therapy and cancer risk (October 2014)
    Athanasios Fountas, MD, MHA, MSc, Georgia Rosiou, MD and Agathocles A. Tsatsoulis, MD, PhD, FRCP
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2015, 82 (1) 11; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.82c.01001

    A reader comments on whether insulin therapy increases the risk of cancer (October 2014).

  • Joint pain in a man with lung cancer
    Emily Jernigan, BS, Nadia Siddiqi, DO and Prashanth Peddi, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2015, 82 (1) 18-19; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.82a.13137

    Hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy is characterized by proliferation of the skin and periosteal formation of new bone.

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