With Primecuts on a brief hiatus this week, I thought it would be a great opportunity to do a bit of bragging…
I am very pleased to announce that Clinical Correlations has received a 2012 Gold Award …
Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
May 14, 2012
By Robert Mocharla, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Both New York and the world had a busy last few days this week. We all shared a collective cringe when JP Morgan announced a monstrous …
Should Patients With Nephrotic Syndrome Receive Anticoagulation?
May 9, 2012
By Jennifer Mulliken
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Case 1:
A 30-year-old African-American male with a history of bilateral pulmonary emboli presents with a 1-week history of bilateral lower extremity edema. Blood pressure is …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
May 7, 2012
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 …
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 …
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,
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We shall excite
Synapses neural
With landmark trials
And doggerel.
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This cruelest month
Should not deter
A nature curious
With …