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 …
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Clinical Correlations
Should Patients With Nephrotic Syndrome Receive Anticoagulation?
May 9, 2012By Jennifer Mulliken
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Case 1:
A 30-year-old African-American male with a history of bilateral pulmonary emboli presents with a 1-week history of bilateral lower extremity edema. Blood pressure is 138/83, cholesterol 385, …
Nothing QT (Cute) about it: rethinking the use of the QT interval to evaluate risk of drug induced arrhythmias
April 27, 2012By Aneesh Bapat, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Perhaps it’s the French name, the curvaceous appearance on electrocardiogram (EKG), or its elusive and mysterious nature, but Torsades des pointes, a polymorphic ventricular arrhythmia, is certainly the …
From The Archives: How Does Alcohol Cause Cardiomyopathy?
April 19, 2012Please enjoy this post from the archives dated November 4, 2009
Charles Levine
Faculty peer reviewed
Excessive consumption of ethanol (EtOH) has many deleterious effects on the human body. The …
A Study of Cultural Complications in the Management of Diabetes
April 18, 2012By Kimberly Jean Atiyeh
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Ms. KS is a 49- year-old Bangladeshi woman with a history of diabetes mellitus and non-adherence to medical treatment or follow up, who was reluctantly brought to the …
RTS,S/AS01: Is This The Beginning Of The End Of Malaria?
April 12, 2012By Nicole Sunseri
Faculty Peer Reviewed
In Africa, there lurks a stealthy and powerful beast. Is it a lion, a black mamba, or a crocodile? No, it is the Anopheles mosquito. Although less than the …
Use it or Lose it- Do cognitive leisure activities protect against the development of Alzheimer’s?
March 30, 2012By Courtney Cunningham, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
As the world population ages, enormous resources will be required to adequately care for persons suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. The disease is the fifth …
Should Physicians Offer The HPV Vaccine To Men And Boys?
March 23, 2012By Kevin Burns
Faculty Peer Reviewed
On December 22, 2010, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the quadrivalent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine (Gardasil; Merck, Whitehouse Station, New Jersey) for prevention of anal cancer …