By Xiao Jing Wang
Faculty Peer Reviewed
ML is from Fu Zhou, China. She doesn’t speak much English and works in her family’s clothing store as a sales girl. ML is only one year older …
Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
From The Archives: How Does Alcohol Cause Cardiomyopathy?
April 19, 2012
Please enjoy this post from the archives dated November 4, 2009
Charles Levine
Faculty peer reviewed
Excessive consumption of ethanol (EtOH) has many deleterious effects on the human body. …
A Study of Cultural Complications in the Management of Diabetes
April 18, 2012
By Kimberly Jean Atiyeh
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Ms. KS is a 49- year-old Bangladeshi woman with a history of diabetes mellitus and non-adherence to medical treatment or follow up, who was reluctantly brought to …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
April 16, 2012
By Becky Naoulou, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
This week in Primecuts, we will get down to the “heart” of business and discuss several recent publications in cardiovascular research. St. Jude, one of the country’s …
RTS,S/AS01: Is This The Beginning Of The End Of Malaria?
April 12, 2012
By Nicole Sunseri
Faculty Peer Reviewed
In Africa, there lurks a stealthy and powerful beast. Is it a lion, a black mamba, or a crocodile? No, it is the Anopheles mosquito. Although less than …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
April 10, 2012
By Robert J Gianotti, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Spring has arrived. Here in the Northeast we have been showered with continual sunshine and our flowering trees are approaching full bloom. Whether enjoying matzah or …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
April 2, 2012
By Devyani Kothari, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
In news this week, Obama’s healthcare reform is under scrutiny by the Supreme Court, the NCAA’s March Madness comes to a close with the championship game tonight, and Mitt Romey and Rick Santorum are still …
Use it or Lose it- Do cognitive leisure activities protect against the development of Alzheimer’s?
March 30, 2012
By Courtney Cunningham, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
As the world population ages, enormous resources will be required to adequately care for persons suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. The disease is the …