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  • In Reply: Risk of falls (May 2015)
    Leah Beegan, DO and Barbara J. Messinger-Rapport, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine August 2015, 82 (8) 479; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.82c.08004

    Readers comment on eruptive xanthoma (April 2015), risk of falls in older adults (May 2015), and sentinel lymph node biopsy after excision of melanoma (May 2015).

  • Comprehensive wound malodor management: Win the RACE
    Comprehensive wound malodor management: Win the RACE
    Renato V. Samala, MD, FACP and Mellar P. Davis, MD, FCCP, FAAHPM
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine August 2015, 82 (8) 535-543; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.82a.14077

    RACE stands for Removal of necrotic tissue, Antibacterials, odor Concealers, and Education and support. Quality of life is the prize.

  • Ceftaroline fosamil: A super-cephalosporin?
    Riane J. Ghamrawi, PharmD, BCPS, Elizabeth Neuner, PharmD and Susan J. Rehm, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2015, 82 (7) 437-444; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.82a.14105

    Ceftaroline fosamil is the first beta-lactam with clinically useful activity against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

  • The cohabitation of art and genomic science
    Brian F. Mandell, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2015, 82 (7) 394-395; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.82b.07015
  • Marijuana is both antiemetic and proemetic
    Marvin Louis Roy Y. Lu, MD and Markus D. Agito, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2015, 82 (7) 429-434; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.82a.14023

    Chronic marijuana use can have an emetic effect. Patients shower or bathe in extremely hot water to relieve the symptoms.

  • A continuous cardiac murmur
    Rebecca Napier, MD, Jonathan D. Gardner, MD, Susan Noe, MD, FACC, FACP and Joe B. Calkins, MD, FACC, FACP, FASE
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2015, 82 (7) 414-418; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.82a.14068

    A 45-year-old woman presents with progressive shortness of breath and a continuous murmur over the entire precordium.

  • An unusual cause of vitamin B12 and iron deficiency
    Shelley Maithel, BA, Alex K. Duong, Jonathan Zhang, MD and Douglas L. Nguyen, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2015, 82 (7) 406-408; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.82a.14151

    Testing for ova and parasites was negative, but video capsule endoscopy revealed a tapeworm in the distal duodenum.

  • Urologic applications of botulinum toxin
    Ashley King, MD, Adrienne Quirouet, MD and Courtenay K. Moore, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2015, 82 (7) 456-464; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.82a.13166

    Botulinum toxin is approved for neurogenic detrusor overactivity and overactive bladder refractory to drug therapy.

  • Care of the aging HIV patient
    Jason M. Blaylock, MD and Glenn W. Wortmann, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2015, 82 (7) 445-455; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.82a.14094

    Today, more than 50% of all HIV-infected people in the United States are over age 50.

  • Bell palsy: Clinical examination and management
    Bell palsy: Clinical examination and management
    Donika K. Patel, DO and Kerry H. Levin, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine July 2015, 82 (7) 419-426; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.82a.14101

    Bell palsy is characterized by acute facial mononeuropathy of unclear cause presenting with unilateral facial weakness.

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