The United States Preventive Services Task Force stands their ground in this week’s Annals of Internal Medicine and recommends against the routine use of the PSA as a screening tool for prostate cancer. This Class D recommendation is grounded in data that suggests a “very small” mortality benefit at the risk of significant over-diagnosis and unnecessary treatment. The PSA should still be used to follow response to treatment in those already diagnosed with prostate cancer. This recommendation has already set off a media frenzy and…

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With Primecuts on a brief hiatus this week, I thought it would be a great opportunity to do a bit of bragging…

I am very pleased to announce that Clinical Correlations has received a 2012 Gold Award from the American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors (ASHPE).

From the Awards Announcement:

“The American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors recognizes editorial excellence and achievement in the field of healthcare publishing. The annual awards competition provides an opportunity for editors to measure their efforts and publications against the…

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By Saleem Ali, MD

The FDA has issued new warnings regarding the use of high dose Simvastatin. The FDA is now recommending that the 80mg dose only be used in patients who have been taking that dosage for at least 12 months with no signs of toxicity.  Patients who are currently on simvastatin and require more than 40 mg. should be considered for alternative lipid lowering therapy. The FDA is issuing this warning because recent data has shown that the 80 mg. dose has a…

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Welcome to Clinical Correlations 3.0.  In case you forgot, we already did 2.0 a few years ago, so it seemed the time was ripe to evolve once again. We’ve redesigned the site from the ground up to give you a clear, crisp website that hopefully catches your eye before it catches your brain.  Over the next several months we’re hoping to refresh not only the interface, but the content as well; more frequent posts, faster hitting pieces that teach you something new each and every day. …

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By Rachel Bond, MD PGY-2

Faculty Peer Reviewed

For many years, the electrocardiogram, a seemingly simple transthoracic interpretation of the electrical activity of the heart captured and externally recorded, has fascinated healthcare professionals.  An aspect of the electrocardiogram which has piqued curiosity consist of an interesting pattern referred to as “early repolarization.”  Early repolarization is a slurring or notching producing a hump-like feature called a J wave, typically found at the junction at the end of the QRS complex…

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Four years and still going strong.  It’s hard to believe.  If you told me when we first launched Clinical Correlations that we would have posted over 700 articles tackling a potpourri of internal medicine, average 1000 hits/day with readers from all over the world, I would have laughed at the ridiculousness of the thought.  But here we are four years later and I am so proud of all we have accomplished.  I’m frequently asked  about our motivation-and to be honest, I never give the…

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By Alexander Volodarskiy, MD

Faculty Peer Reviewed

In a press conference on April 27, 2010, Attorney-General Eric Holder announced that AstraZeneca had agreed to pay a $520 million fine to settle an investigation into the marketing practices of its blockbuster drug, quetiapine (Seroquel) . According to federal investigators, quetiapine, originally approved by the FDA in 1997 for the treatment of schizophrenia and bipolar mania, was promoted by AstraZeneca for use in unapproved (and far commoner) conditions, such as anxiety…

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I am pleased to announce that Clinical Correlations has received the 2010 Gold Award as best blog from the American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors.

From the award announcement:

The American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors (ASHPE) recognizes editorial excellence and achievement in the field of healthcare publishing. The annual awards competition provides an opportunity for editors to measure their efforts and publications against the very best the healthcare sector has to offer. You can be proud that your…

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We are honored  to once again be named as a finalist in the categories of Best Medical Weblog and Best Clinical Sciences Weblog in Medgadget’s 6th Annual Medical Blog Awards.  Reviewing the nominations in each award category is a wonderful opportunity to familiarize yourself with the medical blogosphere.  There are so many worthy sites out there that I strongly urge you to spend some time surfing the nominations in each of the categories.  There’s something here for everyone regardless of where your interest in healthcare…

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