Category: PrimeCuts

Commentary by Erin E. Ducharme MD, PGY-1

Faculty Peer Reviewed

Daylight Saving time Saving Nobody: In addition to long known effects including confusion and annoyance, new research suggests turning the clock back an hour …

Commentary by Elizabeth Sedlis, MD PGY-2

Reviewed by Judith Brenner, MD, Associate Editor, Clinical Correlations

This past week was filled with heart racing mid-fall traditions which brought New Yorkers out to the streets in droves.  …

Commentary by Josh Remick MD, NYU Senior Chief Resident 

As this endless political campaign is entering its final days, I’d like to start this week’s ShortCuts with a plug to vote.  It doesn’t matter …

Commentary by Sabina Berezovskaya MD, PGY-3.  Reviewed by Danise Schiliro- Chuang MD.

Hello and welcome to another addition of shortcuts. Hoping the autumn foliage and beautiful weekend weather have refreshed you and your week is …

Commentary by Andrew McKinstry MD PGY-1

Reviewed by Michael Poles MD, Associate Editor, Clinical Correlations 

It may have been Columbus Day, but that doesn’t mean any of the journals took any time off, so here we …

Commentary by Jon-Emile Kenny MD, PGY-2 

Those crazy Canadians. My Grandmother would have liked new research from Canada demonstrating that honey is very effective in killing drug-resistant biofilms found in human nares. This adaptive virulence factor …

Commentary by Michael Tanner MD, Section Editor, Clinical Correlations

Stormy SEAS for Vytorin

This week the New England Journal published the Simvastatin and Ezetimibe in Aortic Stenosis  (SEAS) trial, whose findings had already been …

Commentary by Rachana Jani MD, PGY-2

This past week has been emotional to say the least. Fall has officially begun and the stock market continues to be in disarray. Nevertheless, the Wall Street Journal found time …