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Matthew Vorsanger, …
By Molly Anderson
Peer Reviewed
Managing hyperlipidemia is a mainstay of cardiovascular risk reduction. The 2013 ACC/AHA guidelines no longer target specific low-density lipoprotein (LDL)-cholesterol levels, but recommend lipid-lowering therapies of varying intensity …
By Kaley Myer, MD
Peer Reviewed
The US government has offered to assist the Nigerian government this week in an effort to locate hundreds of girls kidnapped from …
By Susanna Jeurling
Peer Reviewed
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recently finalized its position regarding annual low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) scanning for early detection of lung cancer. The grade B …
By Aaron Smith, MD
Peer Reviewed
It’s become a familiar site to travelers: airline passengers wearing respiratory masks to filter pathogens from the cabin air. To those not wearing masks, the …
By Jennifer Ng, MD
Peer Reviewed
The end is near, as has been foretold for over a thousand years. Yet, the plague, Halley’s comet, Nostradamus, Y2K, and the Mayan Prophecy – just to name a few so-called predicted apocalyptic events …
By Emily Fisher
Peer Reviewed
Some have said that physical examination is a dying art and the nondilated funduscopic exam may be one of the best examples of this. …
By: Neil Shapiro, MD Editor in Chief, Clinical Correlations
It’s so hard to fathom that Clinical Correlations, now in its 8th year, has reached yet another very significant milestone – 1000 …