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Passing the baton
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- John D. Clough, MD
Beginning next month, current deputy editor Brian Mandell, MD, PhD, will assume the role of editor-in-chief of the Cleveland Clinic Journal of...
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Tight inpatient glucose control: Why didn't we think of this before?
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- John D. Clough, MD
Standardized algorithms to manage chronic diseases such as diabetes in the hospital should get more patients out of the hospital alive.
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A DASH of prevention
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- John D. Clough, MD
The DASH diet is clearly a useful tool for lowering blood pressure in dedicated patients.
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The angiotensin story continues: ARBs in heart failure
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- John D. Clough, MD
Considering the gravity of the problem of heart failure, it makes sense to have as many alternative pathways to success as we can find.
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Hot flashes: Statistics and common sense
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- John D. Clough, MD
In evidence-based medicine, after weighing the data, we still have to apply common sense—and include the patient in the decision-making process....
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Polymyalgia rheumatica: Not well understood, but important to consider
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- John D. Clough, MD
Its cause and pathogenesis remain unknown, but it may be accompanied by giant cell arteritis, which must be recognized and treated as a medical...
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Fantastic voyage: The peeping pill
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- John D. Clough, MD
In the 1966 movie Fantastic Voyage, Raquel Welch and her colleagues were shrunk and injected in a miniature submarine into the...
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Birds, viruses, and history: The current 'genuine adventure'
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- John D. Clough, MD
When I went to medical school, we were taught that viruses couldn’t jump from animals to humans. It looks like you can forget that rule.
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Fish oil is no snake oil
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- John D. Clough, MD
That cod-liver oil I took as a child, though foul tasting, may have been good for my heart.
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In urologic surgery, the legendary becomes routine
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- John D. Clough, MD
To the internist, knowing how laparoscopic surgery is done is less important than knowing that it can be done, and when it is appropriate...
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Insurance, risk, and genomics
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- John D. Clough, MD
Genomics is an area where knowledge of what we can do has preceded a clear understanding of what we should do.
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Up pops the devil
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- John D. Clough, MD
The COMET trial is important for the treatment of heart failure, but the devil is in the details.
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Richard G. Farmer, MD: To Russia, with CME
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- John D. Clough, MD
Dr. Farmer, former chairman of The Cleveland Clinic's Division of Medicine, has always been ahead of his time. Now he is working to improve the...
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Too much of a 'good' thing?
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- John D. Clough, MD
In medicine, worrying about potential problems and engaging in preventive actions like hand-washing and rechecking are not in themselves bad. But...
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What’s a web site for?
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- John D. Clough, MD
Besides free CME, what do readers want from our web site?