Commentary By Sandra D’Angelo, PGY-3
Breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in women, second only to lung cancer as a leading cause of death from cancer. Experts state that approximately 210, 000 women will be diagnosed in 2006 …
Category: Breaking News
Clinical Correlations
More Breaking News for the Glitazones…
March 15, 2007
Coming right on the heels of the recent warning from the FDA about the risk of fractures and Rosiglitazone, the FDA announced on March 9th that pioglitazone (Actos) has also been linked to an increased occurrence of arm, hand, and foot fractures among …
More Breaking News: Rosiglitazone Linked to Fractures
March 6, 2007
Commentary By: Cara Litvin PGY-3
The FDA recently informed physicians of a report issued by GlaxoSmithKline acknowledging that Avandia (rosiglitazone) has been linked to increased fractures in females (1). The report stems from a review of the safety data from ADOPT (A Diabetes …
PB&J Hold the P: Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Peanut Butter
February 15, 2007
Commentary By: Cara Litvin PGY-3
The CDC has issued a public health advisory regarding a large outbreak of Salmonella infections in 39 states since August. …
What Is XDR-TB?
February 12, 2007
Commentary By: Marshall Fordyce, PGY-3
Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) is as ominous as it sounds. As a second-year resident on the Chest service, you may have treated one or two patients with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), which is …
More Smoke From the Tobacco Industry
February 8, 2007
Commentary By: Elizabeth Ross, PGY-3
Cigarette manufacturers have been steadily increasing the nicotine content in cigarettes over the last 7 years. The news broke in August of this year when the Massachusetts Department of Public Health discovered that the level …
A New Take on Quitting Smoking…
January 26, 2007
Landing on the front page of the New York Times today is a study from Science that may turn addiction medicine on its head…no pun intended. Of 32 smokers who had suffered a brain injury, they found that 16 who had …
Why Are Breast Cancer Rates Trending Down?
January 9, 2007
The recent finding of decreasing breast cancer rates made headlines throughout the media; including a NY Times article entitled, Reversing Trend, Big Drop is seen in Breast Cancer on December 15, 2006.
Striking epidemiological facts …