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Clinical Correlations


ShortCuts-This Week in the Journals

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120px-snow_on_second_street.jpgCommentary by Josh Olstein MD, Associate Editor, Clinical Correlations 

Med consults rejoice! The long awaited updated guidelines for perioperative cardiac evaluation and management for non-cardiac surgery were published in last month’s edition of Circulation. …

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abbeyroad.jpgCommentary by Danise Schiliro-Chuang MD, NYU Chief Resident 

While most of us were enjoying way too much turkey this week, some interesting activity in the world of pharmaceuticals was taking place. Let’s take a peak.

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snowpath.jpgCommentary by Cara Litvin MD, Executive Editor, Clinical Correlations

As winter quickly approaches and we plunge into flu season, it’s fitting that news of a “killer” cold virus broke last week. According to a …

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ShortCuts-This Week in the Journals

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roadworks_germany_a9.jpgCommentary by Judith Brenner MD, Associate Program Director, NYU Internal Medicine Residency Program

Published early online in NEJM comes the CORONA study “Rosuvastatin in Older Patients with Systolic Heart Failure”. In this trial, 5000 …

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brookbridge.jpgCommentary by Henry Tran, MD 

Hip fractures in the elderly are associated with a very high morbidity and mortality. Often a fracture can be the prelude to an accelerated decline in the health and functionality of …

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120px-hitchhiker-luxemburg-1977.jpgCommentary by Michael Poles MD, Associate Editor, Clinical Correlations

This week seems like a continuation of last week in a couple of ways. Last week our Editor-In-Chief, Dr. Neil Shapiro, wrote about the epidemic …

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Commentary by Neil Shapiro MD, Editor-In-Chief, Clinical Correlations

Death ValleyAs fall begins in earnest and the leaves start to change we find a diverse group of articles that make the cut and a few that didn’t quite make it but …

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ShortCuts-This Week in the Journals

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800px-autumn_bridge.jpgCommentary by Sean Cavanaugh MD, Associate Editor, Clinical Correlations

Moving through the journals this week, it is all about primary care.

There was an interesting article for Primary Care MDs in this week’s NEJM.  …

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