By Ali Mendelson, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
With Thanksgiving quickly approaching, the holidays are on everybody’s mind. There are parades to watch, food to cook, thanks to give, and inevitably, diets to break. That …
Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
To Stent or not to Stent? A Review of the Evidence on the Utility of Stenting in Renal Artery Stenosis
November 22, 2013
By Elizabeth Hammer, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Renovascular hypertension, often caused by renal artery stenosis (RAS) due to atherosclerosis or fibromuscular dysplasia, is the most common potentially correctable cause of secondary hypertension. Although only approximately one percent …
From The Archives: The Polymyxins: Why am I using them all the time, and what are they?
November 21, 2013
Please enjoy this post from the archives dated December 8, 2010
By Jon-Emile S Kenny
Faculty Peer Reviewed
A 65-year-old female with locally advanced rectal cancer is admitted to the ICU, hypotensive and febrile. Her PICC line is removed and blood …
Fever: Friend or Foe?
November 20, 2013
By Fernando Franco Cuadrado, MD, Julia Hyland Bruno, MD and Mark D. Schwartz, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
When flu season returns, we will all see patients with sniffles, aches and a …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
November 18, 2013
By Karin Katz, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Last week Typhoon Haiyan took a devastating hit on the Philippines. According to UNICEF, 13 million people have been affected, and the death toll is …
BREAKING NEWS: New ACC/AHA Guidelines on the Treatment of Blood Cholesterol to Reduce Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Risk in Adults
November 13, 2013
By Sherif Shoucri, MD
Yesterday, the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association released new groundbreaking guidelines on the treatment of blood cholesterol. These recommendations, which officially drop LDL …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
November 12, 2013
By Sherif Shoucri, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
In a move that was almost thirty years in the making, this week the Food and Drug Administration proposed measures that would all-but outlaw artificial …
The Complicated Story of Saturated Fat
November 8, 2013
By Gregory Katz, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Everyday in clinic, we tell our patients to choose foods low in saturated fat. Because these foods raise plasma cholesterol, the thinking goes, they …