Category: PrimeCuts

By Mary Whitman, MD

Faculty Peer Reviewed

We start this week with news that the American Heart Association (AHA) is teaming up with Nintendo of America to promote its “active gaming” …

Brandon Oberweis, MD

Faculty Peer Reviewed

 This week’s edition of Primecuts begins with President Obama’s recent nomination of Elena Kagan, the current Solicitor General of the United States, as the …

Michael Tanner, MD  Associate Editor, Clinical Correlations

Hemoglobin Targets in Chronic Kidney Disease

Approved by the FDA in 1989, the success of erythropoietin in patients with chronic kidney disease and transfusion-dependent anemia led to …

 The 21^st Running of the City of Pittsburgh Marathon

 Michael Ford, MD

Faculty Peer Reviewed

I am filing this dispatch from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  A former home of steel, bratwurst, …

Bora Toklu, MD

Faculty Peer Reviewed

As the spring is phasing in, it’s again that time of the year when an uncomfortable guilt sets in as you recover from the …

Chau Che, MD

Faculty Peer Reviewed

In the economic news this week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 11,000 for the first time since September 2008.  It appears that the economy is …

Robert Gianotti, MD

Faculty Peer Reviewed

Welcome back to this week’s edition of prime cuts. For all you sports fans out there it has been filled with some exciting comebacks …

Ankit Parikh MD

Faculty peer reviewed

It is time for the first Primecuts of April and the signs of spring are all around us. But before we spring forward into …