Cindy Mui MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
The alcohol flushing response is a physiologic response to ingestion of alcohol and is characterized by facial flushing, nausea, tachycardia, and hypotension, felt to be …
Category: Systems
Clinical Correlations
Mystery Quiz- The Answer
July 23, 2009Vivian Hayashi MD and Robert Smith MD, Mystery Quiz Section Editors
The answer to the mystery quiz is bland alveolar hemorrhage. The CXR (image 1) shows cardiomegaly with mild increase in opacification of the right middle and right lower lobes. The CT images show areas of multifocal …
Mystery Quiz
July 18, 2009Vivian Hayashi MD and Robert Smith MD, Mystery Quiz Section Editors
The patient is a 74 year old man complaining of hemoptysis for four days. The patient has a history of hypertension, but had not been followed medically for many years until two weeks earlier when he presented with …
Myths and Realities: Colon Cleansing: Healthful or just a load of @$%!
July 16, 2009
Chau Che MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
You’ll have increased energy, radiant skin, reduced joint pain, improved asthma symptoms, and best of all…you will lose weight. These are some of the purported benefits …
A Primer on H1N1
July 15, 2009Liana Barkan MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
So much mystery and confusion, and yet so few answers, surround the current H1N1 Pandemic. From where did it come? How did it evolve to have genes from avian, human, and swine flu viruses? How does a virus that normally requires direct …
Meeting Perspectives: The 2009 American Thoracic Society (ATS) International Conference
July 8, 2009
Commentary by Kristy Bauer MD and Nishay Chitkara MD, NYU Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
The 2009 meeting of the American Thoracic Society took place in sunny San Diego, California …
Breaking News: Federal Advisory Panel Recommends Ban on Vicodin and Percocet
July 1, 2009
Aalok Turakhia MD
In an attempt to err on the side of safety, an advisory panel to the Federal Food and Drug Administration narrowly voted yesterday to ban the popular prescription pain …
Myths and Realities: Is Breakfast the Most Important Meal of the Day?
June 18, 2009
Chau Che MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
In an age when two thirds of adults are either overweight or obese and obesity rates in children continue to rise, would an intervention such as …