Please enjoy this post from the Clinical Correlations archives first posted May 7, 2009
Seema Pursnani, MD
Because your parents have designated you as the family doctor, your Uncle Joe calls …
Please enjoy this post from the Clinical Correlations archives first posted May 7, 2009
Seema Pursnani, MD
Because your parents have designated you as the family doctor, your Uncle Joe calls …
By Lisa Parikh, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
I was recently counseling an overweight patient about nutrition and exercise when he asked, “Doc, is it true what they say about dark …
Please enjoy this post from the Clinical Correlations archives first posted April 22, 2009
Michael T. Tees, MD, MPH
On the wards and in the clinic, the physician is frequently …
By Courtney Maxey
Faculty Peer Reviewed
At this point it seems that the general public is aware of the relationship between exposure to the sun and skin cancer. It is troubling, …
By Michael Guss, Class of 2012
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Helminths–parasitic worms that have co-evolved with humans and colonized our gastrointestinal (GI) tract for millennia–have developed the ability to modulate our inflammatory …
Brandon Oberweis, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Case Report:
A 48-year old gentleman with no significant past medical history presents to the emergency department with new-onset left upper extremity hemiparesis, visual …
By Michael Ford, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
2.65 x 10[13]
# of erythrocytes in circulation, assuming Hematocrit 45%[1]
120
Lifespan in days of an erythrocyte[2]
2.5 million
# of new erythrocytes produced each second to replace dying cells†
5.3 million
# of …
Please enjoy this post from the Clinical Correlations archives first posted March 19, 2009
Aditya Mattoo MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
For our first post, I wanted to address the …