By Neha Jindal
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative movement disorder that affects over 1 million people in the United States. People with PD often demonstrate postural instability, gait …
Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
Mystery Quiz
November 30, 2011Vivian Hayashi MD and Robert Smith MD, Mystery Quiz Section Editors
The patient is a 52 year old African-American man who presented with breathlessness and weight loss over one month along with watery stools during the week prior to admission. He had a history of untreated HIV infection, a CD4 cell …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
November 28, 2011
By Rachel Bond, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
A Gift…From Yourself? Stem Cells.
With Thanksgiving just passing, it is hard not to comment on all one can be thankful for. Now, with ‘Frosty the …
Ethical Considerations on the Use of Fear in Public Health Campaigns
November 23, 2011
By Ishmeal Bradley, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
The goal of public health is to prevent or minimize disease and injury on a population level. How to achieve this end has changed over time, …
Primecuts – This Week In the Journals
November 21, 2011
By Juliette Provenzano-Gober, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
The FDA announced this week that they are revoking Avastin (bevacizumab) approval for treatment of metastatic HER 2 negative breast cancer. The FDA commissioner, Margaret A. Hamburg, …
Does Culturing the Catheter Tip Change Patient Outcomes?
November 17, 2011
By Todd Cutler, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
An 82-year-old man is admitted to the intensive care unit with fevers, hypoxic respiratory failure and hypotension. He is intubated and resuscitated with intravenous fluids. A central venous catheter is placed …
Primecuts – This week in the Journals
November 14, 2011
By Joshua Palmer
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Facts on the Tip of My Tongue
There are three notable things about November 14th. It is the birthday of Frederick Banting (the discoverer of insulin), it is World Diabetes Day and um…uh…Banting and Diabetes Day um… …
Does Cranberry Juice Prevent Urinary Tract Infections?
November 9, 2011
By Jessie Yu
Faculty Peer Reviewed
A healthy 21-year-old female college student presents to clinic after one day of dysuria and increased frequency. You diagnose her with a recurrent urinary tract infection (UTI), and as you hand her a prescription for …