Onyeka Okonkwo MD
Faculty peer reviewed
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia affecting over 4.5 million Americans, with cases in the US projected to triple over the …
Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
Practicing Medicine in Rural America
July 24, 2009 
Erin Ducharme MD
This entry is the final in a three part series where I share highlights from my conversation with my home-town physician from rural southern Iowa. Here I …
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 …
Much Ado about Comparative Effectiveness
July 22, 2009
Minal Kale MD
Nirav R. Shah MD, MPH
In the last few months, academic research communities have been all aflutter with the unprecedented sums of money that are up for grabs, as …
PrimeCuts: This Week in the Journals
July 20, 2009
Farshid Yazdi MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
In America, we are quickly coming upon a moment in history that will likely affect us for decades to come. A recent article in the …
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 …