By Benjamin Bearnot
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Since the discovery of zidovudine (AZT) in the mid-1980s, advances in antiretroviral (ARV) therapy for patients with chronic human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection have, until recently, outpaced concomitant improvements …
By Keri Herzog, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
The patient is a 62-year-old male who presented to an outpatient medical clinic complaining of a growing, slightly painful, periumbilical mass, and mild lower gastrointestinal discomfort over the last 4 months. On examination, the patient …
By Antonella Surbone MD PhD and Jerome Lowenstein MD
The recent hearings at the Food and Drug Administration regarding the revocation of approval for the use of Avastin in the treatment of breast cancer [1,2,3] bring into sharp focus several very important …
By David Altszuler, Class of 2012
Faculty Peer Reviewed
An empiric association between occult malignancy and thrombophlebitis has been recognized since Trousseau first reported the syndrome in 1865.[1] The mechanism by which cancer predisposes to thrombophilia has not been fully elucidated; however, it …
By: Aviva Regev
Mr. S is a 68-year old man with longstanding COPD and a 40-pack-year smoking history. He presents to clinic with three days of increasing shortness of breath, and complains that he has been coughing up …
By Adelaide Hearst, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Diabetes is a nationwide epidemic in the United States, affecting 23.6 million people, over 7% of the population.[1] But all diabetics may not be created equal. In the US, Asians are …
By Addie Peretz, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Despite the ease of screening for hypothyroidism with hormone assays and the availability of thyroxine replacement therapy, no recommendations regarding routine screening for hypothyroidism in adults are universally accepted. The American Academy of Family Physicians [1] …
By Andrea Mignatti , MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Among all the new medical therapies, this one will probably not be the most elegant or refined that you will read about. But it just may be …