Commentary by Jon-Emile Kenny MD, PGY-2
Those crazy Canadians. My Grandmother would have liked new research from Canada demonstrating that honey is very effective in killing drug-resistant biofilms found in human nares. This adaptive virulence factor …
Commentary by Daniel Egan MD, PGY2
Please also see the clinical vignette presented during last week’sgrand rounds
On Wednesday, September 24, 2008, the NYU Department of Medicine Grand Rounds featured guest speaker Hilary Calvert, MD, …
Commentary by Albert B. Knapp MD, FACP, PC, NYU Clinical Professor of Medicine (Gastroenterology)
The American people are facing a transformational election this November 4th. Many important issues including the focus of our Foreign Policy, …
Commentary by Bani Chander MD, PGY-3 and Reviewed by Laura Evans MD, NYU Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Case presentation:
The patient is a 26 year-old female with long-standing refractory epilepsy, status post …
Commentary by Michael Tanner MD, Section Editor, Clinical Correlations
Stormy SEAS for Vytorin
This week the New England Journal published the Simvastatin and Ezetimibe in Aortic Stenosis (SEAS) trial, whose findings had already been …
Posted by Vivian Hayashi MD and Robert Smith MD,
Mystery Quiz Section Editors
The answer to last week’s mystery quiz is pneumatocele/pseudocyst likely due to ventilator associated lung injury (VALI) in a patient with ARDS. The patient …
Commentary by Howard Furst MD and Mitchell Charap MD
We will focus our review of the 2008 ADA meetings on new data regarding the GLP-1 analogues and the DPP 4 inhibitors. Before describing the …
Commentary by Sarika Modi MD, PGY-2
Dr. Irwin Klein MD, Professor of Medicine and Cell Biology, of North Shore University Hospital, gave grand rounds on “Thyroid Disease and the Heart” on September 17, 2008. …