By Joshua Palmer
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Facts on the Tip of My Tongue
There are three notable things about November 14th. It is the birthday of Frederick Banting (the discoverer of insulin), it is World Diabetes Day and um…uh…Banting and Diabetes Day um… well …
By Jessie Yu
Faculty Peer Reviewed
A healthy 21-year-old female college student presents to clinic after one day of dysuria and increased frequency. You diagnose her with a recurrent urinary tract infection (UTI), and as you hand her a prescription for empiric …
By Jessica Taff, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
The New York City Marathon this past weekend marked a yearly event in the city’s lifecycle. As the leaves fall and a November chill fills the air, the …
By Alexander Jow, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a major public health issue, representing the leading cause of chronic liver disease, death from liver disease, and a principal indication for liver …
Nicholas Mark, MD & Sarah Buckley, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Background
Publius Aelius Hadrianus, better known as Hadrian, emperor of Rome (117-138 CE), traveler, warrior, and lover of all things Greek, fell ill at the age of 60. He developed progressive edema and episodic epistaxis, …
By Todd Cutler, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and Primecuts bubble!
Welcome to a special Halloween edition of Primecuts!
For the past ten years the drug Xigris (human activated protein C or drotrecogin alfa) and its …
By Maryann Kwa, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
131 million: The number of times the most popular medication in the United States was prescribed in 2010.
Recently, IMS Health, a company that monitors annual sales for pharmaceutical and healthcare industries, published a list of …
By Michael Boffa
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Laura K. sits in the office of her cardiologist waiting for the results of her follow-up aorto-iliac duplex scan. Six months ago, Laura had an endostent placed in her abdominal aorta after a 5.2 cm x 5.4 …