Latest Articles
- A 75-year-old woman with a swollen hand and supraclavicular lymphadenopathy
What is the cause of this patient’s symptoms? A self-test on a clinical case.
- Fly-fishing and painting inspire CCJM Art Director’s Homeric odyssey
Artist, biographer, and fisherman—Bob Demarest, our Art Director, is a man of many talents.
- In diabetes, treat hidden heart disease
Both diabetic and prediabetic patients have abnormal vascular reactivity and should be considered to have occult cardiovascular disease.
- Using troponin T to diagnose acute coronary syndromes
Troponin T and creatine kinase MB have complementary roles. Includes a diagnostic algorithm.
- Heart failure is a fever: The cytokine connection
The discovery that inflammation contributes to heart failure may lead to new therapies for this disease.
- Factor V Leiden and Prothrombin G20210A
Genetic testing is useful only if the knowledge gained will affect the course of treatment.
- Treatment of ovarian cancers not of epithelial origin
Some ovarian cancers carry a prognosis quite different from that of epithelial ovarian cancer, and call for totally different treatment.
- The return of The Clinical Picture
Sharpen your powers of observation with our revived question-and-answer quiz.
