By Jessica Taff, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
With the thrills of the Kentucky Derby and Cinco de Mayo now behind us, we are left awaiting the May flowers promised by an abundance …
Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
The Placebo Effect: Can Understanding Its Role Improve Patient Care?
May 4, 2012
By Brian D. Clark
Faculty Peer Reviewed
The ability to critically assess the validity of a clinical trial is one of many important skills that a physician strives to develop. This skill helps …
Primecuts – This Week In the Journals
May 1, 2012
By Matthew Ingham, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
History provides many examples of medical interventions that were intended for one use, but were ultimately found therapeutic for a wholly different purpose. A review …
Nothing QT (Cute) about it: rethinking the use of the QT interval to evaluate risk of drug induced arrhythmias
April 27, 2012
By Aneesh Bapat, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Perhaps it’s the French name, the curvaceous appearance on electrocardiogram (EKG), or its elusive and mysterious nature, but Torsades des pointes, a polymorphic ventricular arrhythmia, …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
April 23, 2012When April with
Her showers sweet
Drives you inside to
Your window seat,
We shall excite
Synapses neural
With landmark trials
And doggerel.
This cruelest month
Should not deter
A nature curious
With …
In Sickness and In Health
April 20, 2012
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 …
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 …
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 …