Category: PrimeCuts

By Todd Cutler, MD

Faculty Peer Reviewed

Double, double toil and trouble;

Fire burn, and Primecuts bubble!

Welcome to a special Halloween edition of Primecuts!

For the past ten years the drug Xigris (human activated protein C or drotrecogin alfa) …

By Demetrios Tzimas, MD

Faculty Peer Reviewed

In our last Primecuts, Dr. Mathew Robinson reported on the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force’s new recommendation against measuring prostate specific antigen (PSA) as a method of …

By Matthew Robinson, MD

Faculty Peer Reviewed

Men like their numbers.  Boys compare little league batting averages.  Teens boast their bench press max. Young men pride themselves in digits ill begotten from a cheap pick-up line.   Older men – those over …

By Aviva Regev

Faculty Peer Reviewed

As we start feeling the change in season this week in New York – cooler weather, earlier sunsets, a break from that cloying humidity – it’s …

By Kevin Hsueh, MD

Faculty Peer Reviewed

Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann set the media abuzz two weeks ago when, during a Republican presidential debate, she called the HPV vaccination a “potentially dangerous drug” that could cause a “negative reaction” in …

By Robert J Gianotti, MD

Welcome to the first autumn installment of Primecuts. Here in upstate New York the leaves are already beginning to change as I drink a tasty mug of Oktoberfest. My day of …

By Joshua Strauss, MD

Faculty Peer Reviewed

This past week included the 10^th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks against our city and our nation. We remember the horror of …

By Keri Herzog, MD

Faculty Peer Reviewed

Hurricane Irene came and went.  Its path of destruction brought flooding and powerful winds, forcing evacuations, causing loss of power and extensive structural damage. It was a time where we all came together, not …