Vivian Hayashi MD and Robert Smith MD, Mystery Quiz Section Editors
The answer to the mystery quiz is bland alveolar hemorrhage. The CXR (image 1) shows cardiomegaly with mild increase in opacification of the right middle and right lower lobes. The CT images show areas of multifocal …
Vivian Hayashi MD and Robert Smith MD, Mystery Quiz Section Editors
The patient is a 74 year old man complaining of hemoptysis for four days. The patient has a history of hypertension, but had not been followed medically for many years until two weeks earlier when he presented with …
Chau Che MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
You’ll have increased energy, radiant skin, reduced joint pain, improved asthma symptoms, and best of all…you will lose weight. These are some of the …
Liana Barkan MD
Faculty Peer ReviewedÂ
So much mystery and confusion, and yet so few answers, surround the current H1N1 Pandemic. From where did it come? How did it evolve to have genes from avian, human, and swine flu viruses? How does a virus that normally requires direct …
Commentary by Kristy Bauer MD and Nishay Chitkara MD, NYU Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
The 2009 meeting of the American Thoracic Society took place in sunny San …
Aalok Turakhia MD
In an attempt to err on the side of safety, an advisory panel to the Federal Food and Drug Administration narrowly voted yesterday to ban the popular …
Chau Che MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
In an age when two thirds of adults are either overweight or obese and obesity rates in children continue to rise, would an intervention …
Ishmeal  Bradley MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Ms. W is a 35 yo woman with a history of systemic lupus erythematosus diagnosed 10 years ago. Her only medications are hydroxychloroquine and …