Men's Health
- Colorectal cancer screening: Choosing the right test
The choice depends on patient preference, family history, and the likelihood of compliance.
- An obese 48-year-old man with progressive fatigue and decreased libido
Men with hypogonadism usually present with nonspecifi c symptoms.
- Personalizing guideline-driven cancer screening
Screening can lead to early diagnosis and prevent death from cancer, but the topic provokes controversy.
- A woman, age 35, with new-onset ascites
She also has jaundice, hepatomegaly, and multiple abnormal laboratory results. What is the next step?
- Cancer screening: A modest proposal for prevention
Large-scale cancer screening programs have the unintended consequences of false-positive results and overdiagnosis.
- Hypertension guidelines January 2019
The article Aleyadeh W, Hutt-Centeno E, Ahmed HM, Shah NP. Hypertension guidelines: treat patients, not numbers. Cleve Clin J Med 2019; 86(1):47–56. doi:10.3949/ccjm.86a.18027 contained an error.
- Hypertension guidelines: Treat patients, not numbers
When treating high blood pressure, how low should we try to go? Debate continues.
- Prostate cancer screening, November 2018
A reader comments on the use of prostate-specific antigen (November 2018).
- Men’s health 2018 (November 2018)
An error occurred in Chaitoff A, Killeen TC, Nielsen C. Men’s health 2018: BPH, prostate cancer, erectile dysfunction, supplements. Cleve Clin J Med 2018; 85(11):871–880. doi:10.3949/ccjm.85a.18011.
- How acute pain leads to chronic opioid use
Several recent studies suggest how doctors can better treat acute pain to prevent chronic opioid use.