Category: PrimeCuts

By Ofer Fass, MD

Peer Reviewed

Pantoprazole in Patients at Risk for Gastrointestinal Bleeding in the ICU (NEJM) (1)

Critically ill patients in the ICU are typically given proton pump inhibitors (PPI) for …

By Sean Kelly, MD

Peer Reviewed

Recent news has brought stories of new technology promising to change the way we monitor for atrial fibrillation, one of the world’s most common …

By Jacob Teperman, MD

Peer Reviewed

This month, James P Allison and Tasuku Honjo shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their contributions to the oncology world with their developments in immune checkpoint therapies.  Allison …

By Gibram Ramos Ortiz, MD

Peer Reviewed

Last week, lawmakers in Congress continued the fight against the opioid epidemic with a bipartisan bill dubbed the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act. The bill, …

By: Chen Fu, MD

This week’s news brought stories of potential game changers in the world at large. On Thursday, South Korean President Moon Jae-Im arrived in North Korea in a symbolic visit …

By Michael Natter, MD

Peer Reviewed 

The Hurricane Ravaging the Carolinas.

Much of medicine happens in the microscopic realm. Bacteria, viruses, fungi, the aberrant cells of malignancy, are all invisible to the unaided eye.  In the following sections, we’ll discuss several of these microscopic entities, but before we do let’s acknowledge the …

By: Yiping Xing, MD

This year’s US Open Tennis Championships, which took place here in New York City over the past two weeks, have been arguably the most compelling in years, enhanced by extreme heat …

By: Kristie Bauman, MD

Researchers at the University of British Columbia may have solved our blood bank problems. After searching the human gut microbiome metagenomics library, Stephen Withers and colleagues found an enzyme …