By Reda Issa
Faculty Peer Reviewed
As a medical student, I adjusted to waking up at 6 AM every day – with the help of coffee, of course. Living in New York City …
Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
June 4, 2013
By Matthew Vorsanger, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
This week, captivating the interest of health and lay media alike is news of the emerging viral infection dubbed MERS-CoV (Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus). Although popular media is rife with dramatic statements such as …
Clinical Misinformation: The Case of Benadryl Causing Dementia
May 22, 2013
By Natalie Smith, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
A few weeks ago I received an email from a friend I grew up with containing a link to an article she had seen online …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
May 21, 2013
By Gloria Lan, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
This week, Angelina Jolie surprised the world with her confession of having had a prophylactic double mastectomy because of a BRCA-1 mutation. This led to …
Too Much of a Good Thing: The Evidence Behind the Need for a Bisphosphonate Holiday
May 9, 2013
By Jenna Piccininni
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Bisphosphonates are a relatively new medication having only been approved to treat osteoporosis in the US since 1995 [1]. In addition, large placebo controlled trials have, …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
May 6, 2013
By Ellie Hammer, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
This week NBA basketball player Jason Collins came out as the first openly gay athlete playing on a major American sports team. Fighting continued in …
Is Personalized Medicine Really the Cure? Looking Through the Lens of Breast Cancer
May 3, 2013
By Jessica Billig
Faculty Peer ReviewedÂ
Although millions of dollars are spent towards cancer research every year, progress toward a cure is less than ideal. Last year the New York Times posted a …
Preserving Residual Renal Function
May 1, 2013
By Jerome Lowenstein, Â MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Two questions that often arise concerning the administration of radio-contrast in patients with advanced renal disease, receiving hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis, reveal what appear to …