By Maryann Kwa, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
131 million: The number of times the most popular medication in the United States was prescribed in 2010.
Recently, IMS Health, a company that monitors annual sales for pharmaceutical and healthcare industries, published a list of …
By Michael Boffa
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Laura K. sits in the office of her cardiologist waiting for the results of her follow-up aorto-iliac duplex scan. Six months ago, Laura had an endostent placed in her abdominal aorta after a 5.2 cm x …
By Demetrios Tzimas, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
In our last Primecuts, Dr. Mathew Robinson reported on the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force’s new recommendation against measuring prostate specific antigen (PSA) as a method of …
By Amy Dinitz
Faculty Peer Reviewed
The lifetime risk of developing diabetes for persons born in 2000 is around 35%[1] and the NHANES database has suggested a greater than fourfold increase in prevalence over the last three generations. While bariatric …
By Ishmael Bradley, MD
In March 2010 President Barack Obama and the Democratic-led Congress passed the single largest change in the American health care industry since the introduction of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act …
By Matthew Robinson, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Men like their numbers. Boys compare little league batting averages. Teens boast their bench press max. Young men pride themselves in digits ill begotten from a cheap pick-up line. Older men – those over age …
By Matt Johnson, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
In the fall of 2010, after Haiti was razed by a magnitude 7.2 earthquake that left over 316,000 people dead, cholera was injected into the tumult to add to the growing list of Haiti’s struggles …
By Katherine Husk
Faculty Peer Reviewed
A healthy 40-year-old woman comes into your office for a routine health exam. After you have performed a clinical breast exam, she asks you whether she should be examining her breasts on …