By Nadia Jafar
Peer Reviewed
As a resident of Connecticut, I grew up acutely aware of tick-borne diseases. Nonetheless, I was surprised to see at least 3 cases of tick-borne infections during the month of …
Category: Diseases 2.0
Clinical Correlations
Gay Men, Barebacking and the New Little Blue Pill: The awkward interface of medicine and gay sex.
May 23, 2014
By Richard E. Greene, MD
Peer Reviewed
In July of 2012, the FDA approved the use of Tenofovir-Emtricitabine (Truvada, a single blue pill) daily as Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) in …
Infection Transmission During Air Travel
May 7, 2014
By Aaron Smith, MD
Peer Reviewed
It’s become a familiar site to travelers: airline passengers wearing respiratory masks to filter pathogens from the cabin air. To those not wearing masks, the fashion trend …
Type 1 Diabetes: Research for Pancreatic Replacement, Transplantation and Regeneration
April 10, 2014
By Karin Katz, MD and Loren Wissner Greene, MD, MA
Peer Reviewed
In 1964, Dr. Arnold Kadish used real-time glucose monitoring to adjust insulin infusion in a patient with …
West Nile Virus: Just How Bad Is It?
March 5, 2014
By Julian Horwitz
Peer Reviewed
As of mid-August 2012, the CDC had reported 1118 cases of West Nile virus (WNV) infections and 41 related deaths, which, pro rata, made 2012 the most prolific year …
Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Atherosclerosis
August 17, 2012
By Michael Malone
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Omega-3 long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) have been popularized in recent years as beneficial nutrients with cardioprotective effects. Omega-3 PUFAs are so named because of …
RTS,S/AS01: Is This The Beginning Of The End Of Malaria?
April 12, 2012
By Nicole Sunseri
Faculty Peer Reviewed
In Africa, there lurks a stealthy and powerful beast. Is it a lion, a black mamba, or a crocodile? No, it is the Anopheles mosquito. Although less than …
Obesity 2.0: More Than Just the Extra Weight
February 9, 2012
By Aviva Regev
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Introduction
Few people these days are unaware of the “obesity epidemic,” with its inception here in the United States and its steady, insidious spread around the globe. The numbers …