Latest Articles

  • Vascular claudication: How to individualize treatment
    Bruce H. Gray, DO and Timothy M. Sullivan, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 1997, 64 (8) 429-436;

    Clinicians today have a wider variety of options for treating claudication, from medical therapy to angioplasty or surgery.

  • Is intensive glycemic control worth the expense?
    Richard C. Eastman, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 1997, 64 (8) 410-413;

    Is tight control of glucose levels cost-effective for type I diabetes? And what about type II diabetes?

  • A 68-year-old woman with high serum protein and no symptoms
    H. Abdel-Razeq, MD and Brian J. Bolwell, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 1997, 64 (8) 403-406;

    As a result of a routine checkup, an elevated serum protein is found. What is the appropriate follow-up and diagnosis?

  • Carvedilol for heart failure: Renewed interest in beta blockers
    James B. Young, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 1997, 64 (8) 415-422;

    The idea of using beta blockers to treat heart failure seems counterintuitive. But Carvedilol is changing that thinking.

  • Correction
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 1997, 64 (8) 413;
  • A proper role for organized medicine in the new era (May 1997) Editorial
    Clay L. Molstad, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 1997, 64 (8) 445;
  • Low back pain: Living with ambiguity
    Daniel Mazanec, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine September 1997, 64 (8) 407-410;

    Ambiguity is a fact of life in treating acute low back pain, frustrating physicians and patients alike.

  • Arthralgias, myalgias, facial erythema, and a positive ANA: not necessarily SLE
    Graciela S. Alarcon, MD, MPH
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 1997, 64 (7) 361-364;

    Physicians frequently see patients with vague musculoskeletal complaints and intermittent rashes who are thought to have a connective tissue disease.

  • Organized Medicine
    Alan A. Peterson, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 1997, 64 (7) 390;
  • National headache foundation
    Glen D. Solomon, MD, Roger K. Cady, MD, Jack A. Klapper, MD and Robert E. Ryan, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 1997, 64 (7) 373-383;

    These guidelines, developed by the National Headache Foundation, target diagnosis, therapy and referral.

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