By Joshua Strauss, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
This past week included the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks against our city and our nation. We remember the horror of that morning, …
Month: September 2011
Clinical Correlations
Avastin and the Meaning of Evidence
September 9, 2011
By Antonella Surbone MD PhDÂ and Jerome Lowenstein MD
The recent hearings at the Food and Drug Administration regarding the revocation of approval for the use of Avastin in the treatment of breast cancer [1,2,3] bring into sharp focus several very …
Should My Patient with a Solid Tumor be Anticoagulated in the Absence of Venous Thromboembolism?
September 8, 2011
By David Altszuler, Class of 2012
Faculty Peer Reviewed
An empiric association between occult malignancy and thrombophlebitis has been recognized since Trousseau first reported the syndrome in 1865.[1]Â The mechanism by which cancer predisposes to thrombophilia has not been fully elucidated; …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
September 6, 2011
By Keri Herzog, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Hurricane Irene came and went. Â Its path of destruction brought flooding and powerful winds, forcing evacuations, causing loss of power and extensive structural damage. It was a time where we all came together, not …
Should you Treat a COPD Exacerbation with Antibiotics?
September 3, 2011
By: Aviva Regev
Mr. S is a 68-year old man with longstanding COPD and a 40-pack-year smoking history. He presents to clinic with three days of increasing shortness of breath, and complains that he has been …