Author: Neil.Shapiro@nyulangone.org

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 …

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: 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 …

By Michael Bohl, MD

Peer Reviewed 

Last week the world mourned the loss of the Queen of Soul, Arethra Franklin.  Singer of “Respect”, “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman”, …

By Elissa Lin, MD

Peer Reviewed

While the summer brings long daylight hours, it also brings dreaded bugs and mosquitos. Beware of a new tick species, the Asian long-horned tick, Haemaphysalis longicornis. It’s …