By Benjamin P. Geisler, MD, MPH
On March 24th, World Tuberculosis (TB) Day was commemorated, exactly 131 years after Robert Koch identified the mycobacterium in a talk at the Physiological …
Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
White Coat Hypertension: Are Doctors Bad for Your Blood Pressure?
March 20, 2013
By Lauren Foster
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Hypertension is a pervasive chronic disease affecting approximately 65 million adults in the United States, and a significant cause of morbidity and mortality [1]. Antihypertensives are …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
March 18, 2013
By Gregory Katz, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Habemus papum! It was hard to find anything in the news this week that didn’t mention Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s ascension to infallibility as he …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
February 19, 2013
By Aaron Smith
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Happy Belated Valentine’s Day! In this edition of Primecuts, we look at recent scientific articles pertaining to our favorite Valentine’s Day traditions. Next year, you may …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
January 28, 2013
By Jillian Rosengard, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
This week we bundled up to bear the brutal cold, watched President Obama’s second term inaugural address, and inched closer to our return to Bellevue. …
Anal cancer screening – A case for screening anal paps
January 24, 2013
By Nelson Sanchez, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Case:
A 56 year-old homosexual male presents to your clinic to ask whether or not he should have an anal Pap smear. The patient is …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
January 22, 2013
Primecuts will return next week with the latest news in the journals.
Promising New Hepatitis C Medications Raise Hopes, Questions
January 17, 2013
By Carl M. Gay, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
A healthy 61-year old man with a history of chronic genotype 1b hepatitis C virus infection of unknown duration arrives for his semiannual appointment …