Category: PrimeCuts

Commentary by Josh Olstein MD, NYU Chief Resident 

This week’s edition of shortcuts begins with an article from the NEJM looking at the role of cardiac troponin in patients with acute decompensated heart failure. …

Commentary by Michael Tanner, M.D., Section Editor, Clinical Correlations

In the May 15^th issue of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report,  the CDC recommends vaccinating all people 60 and older against shingles with …

Commentary by Cara Litvin MD, Executive Editor, Clinical Correlations

Making headlines this week was a study published in JAMA analyzing prospective data from over 100,000 female participants in the Nurses’ Health Study for …

Commentary by Sean Cavanaugh MD, Associate Editor, Clinical Correlations

More strong evidence is popping up in the journals indicating that genes might actually be important in determining disease. Who knew? Now that we …

Commentary by Judith Brenner MD, Associate Program Director, NYU Internal Medicine Residency Program

This week’s ShortCuts begins with a follow up of a story first presented in March, 2008, when the recall of …

Commentary by Danise Schiliro-Chuang, NYU Chief Resident

Welcome to this week’s edition of ShortCuts. Hope that everyone has enjoyed the nice spring weekend weather.

Let’s begin with some news in the world of …

Commentary by Michael Poles MD, Associate Editor, Clinical Correlations 

It’s time again for this week’s shortcuts, and I have got some interesting things to discuss. Anyone who has spent time in our …

Commentary by Neil Shapiro, MD, Editor in Chief, Clinical Correlations

The hot news stories this week were the early release articles highlighted at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) meetings. We will save …