By Ian Fagan, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Is springtime the season for love? Take a look outside—the birds are chirping, the bees are buzzing, the flowers are blooming. There are …
Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
Watermelons for Medicine: Global Health and Residency Training
April 29, 2011
By Lucy Doyle, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Ten years ago, I found myself in a village in rural central China that was ravaged by AIDS. Villagers had contracted the disease through a contaminated blood-selling …
How Safe Is That Tattoo?
April 27, 2011
By Farzon A. Nahvi
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Once thought to be exclusively the domain of gang members, prisoners, and those in the military, tattoos are now increasingly popular with the …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
April 25, 2011
By Keri Herzog, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Amidst tornadoes in the southeast, wildfires in the southwest, and flooding in the northeast, it is often impossible to predict when or who may …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
April 18, 2011
By Melissa Mroz, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Protection was the theme in journals for the second week of April. The New York Times and NEJM both published the results from …
From The Archives: Myths and Realities: Do Power Lines Cause Cancer?
April 14, 2011
Please enjoy this post from the Clinical Correlations archives first posted May 20, 2009
By Aditya Mattoo, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Prompted by personal experience, I thought I would …
The Porcelain Terror: Can a Toilet Give You Gonorrhea?
April 13, 2011
By Bradley Ching, Class of 2011
Faculty Peer Reviewed
What do every road trip, football game halftime, and trans-continental plane flight have in common? Usually a disgusting toilet paired with …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
April 11, 2011
By Demetrios Tzimas, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Our cousins across the Atlantic are feeling the economic sting: in Great Britain they will be implementing market-style changes to their health care …