By Benjamin Bearnot
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Since the discovery of zidovudine (AZT) in the mid-1980s, advances in antiretroviral (ARV) therapy for patients with chronic human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection have, until recently, outpaced concomitant improvements …
By: Aviva Regev
Mr. S is a 68-year old man with longstanding COPD and a 40-pack-year smoking history. He presents to clinic with three days of increasing shortness of breath, and complains that he has been coughing …
By Andrea Mignatti , MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Among all the new medical therapies, this one will probably not be the most elegant or refined that you will read about. But it just may …
By Michael Cohen
Faculty Peer Reviewed
The varicella-zoster virus (VZV) is well known to the majority of the population. In children, it strikes as varicella (chickenpox), characterized by pruritic, vesicular lesions in different stages of development dispersed over the body. A …
By Ramoncito David
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the third leading cause of cancer-related death in the world.[1] The prevalence of this fatal disease greatly varies among different nations, due to the fact that almost 80% of cases are secondary …
By Farzon A. Nahvi
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Once thought to be exclusively the domain of gang members, prisoners, and those in the military, tattoos are now increasingly popular with the …
By Bradley Ching, Class of 2011
Faculty Peer Reviewed
What do every road trip, football game halftime, and trans-continental plane flight have in common? Usually a disgusting toilet paired with …
By Michael C. Brabeck, MD, Adam Davis, MD, and Shaun Rodgers, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Case:
A 56-year-old male was admitted to Bellevue Hospital Center with chronic back pain …