September 7, 2010
By Gopi Nayak, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
This week as Labor Day weekend marks the end of summer, President Obama calls for major spending on public works to jump-start the economy, while tennis stars continue to battle it out at Arthur Ashe…
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August 30, 2010
Faculty Peer Reviewed
In the national news, a ruling came from Washington DC that shocked NIH scientists and researchers across the nation’s universities. Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of Federal District Court for the District of Columbia ruled…
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August 23, 2010
By Joshua Smith, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
As I am sure many of my fellow interns can attest, choosing to begin one’s year on the wards and as a night float at Bellevue Hospital has resulted in two predictable outcomes: an unbelievable…
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August 16, 2010
Faculty Peer Reviewed
In the headlines this week, The New York Times featured an article describing a test capable of identifying biomarkers in cerebrospinal fluid to diagnose patients with Alzheimer’s disease.[1] This article is based on a study that…
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August 9, 2010
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Last month my fellow interns and I were enveloped by the fury that is known as July, the month infamous for shocking young interns into realizing they are now doctors. I was fortunate to have…
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August 2, 2010
By Deborah Hemel, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
One of the many advantages of being on elective this week was that I finally had the pleasure of spending time outside and experiencing the heat wave with millions of other sweaty, malodorous New Yorkers.…
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July 26, 2010
By: Aimee Edell, MD
Gratefully returning to daylight after a two-week stint assigned to the night float service, I’ve been observing the week’s events with great mirth. It seems bedbugs have continued on their squirm-inducing rise to power and glory, causing…
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July 19, 2010
By David Veal, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Recent international intrigue–replete with secret identities and coded messages–reached a dénouement when ten Russian agents were exchanged for four Americans in Vienna and an Iranian scientist residing in the US repatriated. Despite our popular culture’s…
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July 12, 2010
By Dana Clutter, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
As HIV/AIDS researchers around the world prepare for the upcoming 18th International AIDS Conference in Vienna from July 18-23, the HIV/AIDS epidemic has been in the spotlight. We begin with an encouraging report that the Obama…
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July 6, 2010
By David Hormozdi, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Ah July! A time filled with backyard barbeques, family vacations, and fireworks. But for new attendings, fellows, and housestaff across the country, July 1 marks the start of added responsibility, trepidation, and autonomy. With the…
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June 28, 2010
Michael Fingerhood, MD, MPH
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Ah, the long balmy days of summer in New York, replete with dining al fresco, Shakespeare in The Park, bumper-to-bumper traffic to our pristine (for now, at least) local beaches, and of course the armies…
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June 21, 2010
By Jeffrey Mayne, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
PRIMECUTS! PRIMECUTS! As the excitement of the World Cup rolls on and the din of those vuvuzela horns continues to ring heavy in your ears, the Wall Street Journal reports the horns once used to rally…
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