By David G. Rosenthal and Robert Gianotti, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Case: A 33-year-old man comes to your clinic complaining of worsening acne over the last 6 months. You note a significant increase in both …
Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
Have a Cow? How Recent Studies on Red Meat Consumption Apply to Clinical Practice
April 12, 2013
By Tyler R. McClintock
Faculty Peer Reviewed
“Red Meat Kills.” “Red Meat a Ticket to Early Grave.” “A Hot Dog a Day Raises Risk of Dying.” Such were the headlines circulating in popular press last …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
April 9, 2013
By Robert J. Gianotti, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
No matter how hard I try I just can’t get the picture of Kevin Ware fracturing his leg last Easter Sunday out of my head. Not only …
The Effect of Bariatric Surgery on Incretin Hormones and Glucose Homeostasis
April 4, 2013
By Michael Crist
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Until recently, little thought was given to the important role played by the duodenum, jejunum, and ileum in glucose homeostasis. The involvement of the gut in glucose regulation …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
April 1, 2013
By Jiah Shin Teh, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
On behalf of Primecuts, happy belated Easter! We all hope that the days of special observance, no matter your faith, will help to refresh and recharge. For as we venture into the days of 2013, …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
March 26, 2013By Benjamin P. Geisler, MD, MPH
On March 24th, World Tuberculosis (TB) Day was commemorated, exactly 131 years after Robert Koch identified the mycobacterium in a talk at the Physiological Society of …
White Coat Hypertension: Are Doctors Bad for Your Blood Pressure?
March 20, 2013
By Lauren Foster
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Hypertension is a pervasive chronic disease affecting approximately 65 million adults in the United States, and a significant cause of morbidity and mortality [1]. Antihypertensives are widely …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
March 18, 2013
By Gregory Katz, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Habemus papum! It was hard to find anything in the news this week that didn’t mention Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s ascension to infallibility as he became Pope Francis. …