Category: PrimeCuts

Commentary by Michael Tanner MD, Section Editor, Clinical Correlations

Michael Pollan wrote last year in In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, “…the history of modern nutritionism has been a history of macronutrients at …

Commentary by Ryan Farley MD, PGY-3

Faculty Peer Reviewed

Hot off the press from the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) this week is an original article comparing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with coronary artery bypass …

Commentary by Josh Remick MD, NYU Senior Chief Resident 

It was quite the week in Medicine, spanning from politics to plagiarism, pregnancy to pain, steroids to statins and artificial limbs to A-Roid.  And that’s …

Commentary by Michael Poles MD, Associate Editor, Clinical Correlations 

Welcome to this week’s primecuts. Let’s slice right in and take a big bite out of last week’s medical news, starting with a little political news. …

Commentary by Sherley Abraham MD PGY-3

Faculty Peer Reviewed

This week we reflect on the interplay in life which is showcased by two football teams. In medicine, it plays out between two drugs, newer …

Commentary by Michael Tees MD, MPH , PGY-1

The journals this week were not where the eyes of the nation or the world were fixed. All were focused upon a turning point, a new …

Commentary  by Aleksandar Adzic MD, PGY-3

Faculty Peer Reviewed

Have you ever been annoyed that the computer systems at the three hospitals you work at are completely different?  Have you ever had trouble piecing together …

Commentary by Paul Fenyves MD, PGY-3 

Faculty Peer Reviewed

Macrovascular Control: In the New England Journal of Medicine, a new study re-addresses the question of whether tight glycemic control in diabetes prevents macrovascular complications. “Glucose …