Latest Articles

  • Medical management of urinary incontinence in women
    Elim Shih, MD, Heather Hirsch, MD and Holly L. Thacker, MD, FACP, NCMP, CCD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2017, 84 (2) 151-158; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16054

    It is common, underreported, and undertreated. Primary care physicians can offer conservative management.

  • Anticoagulation for atrial fibrillation (January 2017)
    Elise Henning, MD, MED
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 2017, 84 (9) 658; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84c.09001

    Readers comment on anticoagulation for atrial fibrillation (January 2017).

  • Bedbugs: Helping your patient through an infestation
    Bedbugs: Helping your patient through an infestation
    Omer Ibrahim, MD, Usama Mohammad Syed, MBBS, BSc and Kenneth J. Tomecki, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine March 2017, 84 (3) 207-211; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.15024

    Physicians are often at the forefront in the diagnosis and treatment of bedbug infestation.

  • Serotonin syndrome (November 2016)
    Cielo Z. Rose, DO
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2017, 84 (5) 342-343; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84c.05001

    A reader comments on serotonin syndrome (November 2016).

  • Drug reaction or metastatic lung cancer?
    Hiromichi Hara, MD, PhD, Hirofumi Utsumi, MD, PhD, Hiroshi Wakui, MD, PhD, Haruhiko Yanagisawa, MD, PhD, Mitsuo Hashimoto, MD, PhD and Kazuyoshi Kuwano, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2017, 84 (12) 914-915; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.17005

    Imaging shows nodules randomly distributed throughout both lungs, a paradoxical reaction to drug therapy.

  • Black hairy tongue cured concurrently with respiratory infection
    Fátima Tous-Romero, MD, Sara Burillo-Martínez, MD, Marta Prieto-Barrios, MD and Lidia Maroñas-Jiménez, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine June 2017, 84 (6) 434-435; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16044

    Proposed causes include medications, hyposalivation, poor oral hygiene, smoking, and infection.

  • Trends in cardiovascular risk profiles
    Samir Kapadia, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2017, 84 (12 suppl 4) e6-e9; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84.s4.02
  • Breast cancer screening: Does tomosynthesis augment mammography?
    Breast cancer screening: Does tomosynthesis augment mammography?
    Traci A. Takahashi, MD, MPH, Christoph I. Lee, MD, MSHS and Kay M. Johnson, MD, MPH
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2017, 84 (7) 522-527; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16057

    This technology may reduce recall rates and increase cancer detection rates, but outcome studies are needed.

  • A rose by any other name is still a rose—but why a rose?
    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2017, 84 (1) 11-12; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84b.01017

    Christopher Columbus returned from the New World with a chronic illness, now believed to have been reactive arthritis.

  • Concussion: Evaluation and management
    Concussion: Evaluation and management
    Alexandra Stillman, MD, Michael Alexander, MD, Rebekah Mannix, MD, Nancy Madigan, PhD, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, MD, PhD and William P. Meehan, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine August 2017, 84 (8) 623-630; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.84a.16013

    Initial therapy involves several days of cognitive and physical rest, then a gradual return to activities.

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