Michael Tees, MD, MPH
While the news was dominated by President Barack Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize, other American Nobel Laureates should not be forgotten. After all, Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider …
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Clinical Correlations
Primecuts-This Week in the Journals
October 5, 2009
Rachana Jani MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
As summer officially leaves us and fall sets in, the headlines understandably continue to focus on preventative medicine. Hopes of an H1N1 vaccine were finally realized …
PrimeCuts: This Week in the Journals
September 28, 2009
Daria B. Crittenden MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
While health care reform is being hotly debated around the country, one aspect of reform on which most people can probably agree is that …
PrimeCuts: This Week in the Journals
September 21, 2009
Carolyn Bevan MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
With health care spending increasing at an unsustainable rate while an estimated 46 million Americans live without insurance [1], the urgent need for healthcare reform …
PrimeCuts: This Week in the Journals
September 14, 2009
Michael Ford MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Last spring, The New York Times published a series of articles that examined the status of “the War on Cancer,” initiated some 40 years ago by …
Primecuts-This Week in the Journals
September 7, 2009
Robert Gianotti, MD
Labor Day is upon us and the summer is now officially over…and what a summer it has been! The entire world was gripped with fears of H1N1, we lost …
PrimeCuts: This Week in the Journals
August 31, 2009
Christina Adaniel MD
Faculty peer reviewed
The country mourned over the loss of Senator Kennedy this week, 15 months after his diagnosis with malignant glioma. As plans for healthcare reform undergo …
PrimeCuts: Week of August 24th
August 24, 2009
Jon-Emile Kenny
Faculty Reviewed
Roughly 40,000 women die each year in the United States from breast cancer, and nearly 200,000 will be newly diagnosed; we have all been affected by this disease, and this week’s PrimeCuts looks …