Four years and still going strong. It’s hard to believe. If you told me when we first launched Clinical Correlations that we would have posted over 700 articles tackling a potpourri of internal medicine, …
Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
Primecuts-This Week in the Journals
December 27, 2010
By Ilya Lim, MD
As the New Year rolls around, many people are making New Year’s resolutions aimed at preventing weight gain, excessive spending, or indulging in other guilty pleasures. Likewise, in this week’s …
Meeting Perspectives: The 2010 Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) Meeting
December 22, 2010Neal H. Steigbigel, M.D.
The recent IDSA meeting reviewed many important and interesting findings. Topics spanned a wide array of subjects, many of which are of importance and interest to all physicians. These subjects included:
Primecuts-This Week in the Journals
December 20, 2010
By: Josephine Ni, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
This week has been all about making progress and how one step forward is often accompanied by one step backwards. This was clearly …
Is a Low Vitamin D Level a Risk Factor for Colon Cancer?
December 16, 2010
By Nelson Sanchez, MD and Fritz Francois, MD, MS
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Case: A 45-year-old woman presents to your office for an annual check-up. She states that her grandmother was recently …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
December 13, 2010
By Joshua Strauss, MD
Faculty peer reviewed
Don’t smoke! We all know this by now, but this past week the surgeon general released her yearly report about why this continues to …
Prescription for Meditation
December 10, 2010
By Manisha Patel
Faculty Peer Reviewed
A woman in her 60s with a history of fibromyalgia presented with productive cough and fevers for one week, and also complained that she had …
The Polymyxins: Why am I using them all the time, and what are they?
December 8, 2010
By Jon-Emile S Kenny
Faculty Peer Reviewed
A 65-year-old female with locally advanced rectal cancer is admitted to the ICU, hypotensive and febrile. Her PICC line is removed and blood cultures …