By Lisa Parikh, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
I was recently counseling an overweight patient about nutrition and exercise when he asked, “Doc, is it true what they say about dark …
Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
March 28, 2011
By Vicky Jones, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
This past week in research had some interesting findings that may change the way we prevent, diagnose, and treat disease across disciplines.
At the 31st …
From The Archives: The Skinny on Cachexia…Can it be Treated?
March 24, 2011 
Please enjoy this post from the Clinical Correlations archives first posted April 22, 2009
Michael T. Tees, MD, MPH
On the wards and in the clinic, the physician is frequently …
Educating Patients About Sun Exposure
March 23, 2011
By Courtney Maxey
Faculty Peer Reviewed
At this point it seems that the general public is aware of the relationship between exposure to the sun and skin cancer. It is troubling, …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
March 21, 2011
By Ben Wu, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
As the long winter gives way to a tumultuous spring, we find our attention torn between budding revolutions in North Africa and the Middle …
Twisted Translation: Using Friends and Family Members As Medical Interpreters
March 18, 2011
By Nina Sainath, Class of 2011
Faculty Peer Reviewed
According to the latest US Census Bureau report analyzing the use of languages in …
The Myth of the Helminth: Can Worms be the Next Therapeutic Breakthrough for IBD Patients?
March 16, 2011
By Michael Guss, Class of 2012
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Helminths–parasitic worms that have co-evolved with humans and colonized our gastrointestinal (GI) tract for millennia–have developed the ability to modulate our inflammatory …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
March 14, 2011
By Aviva Regev
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Spring is in the air: warmer weather, longer days, flowers blooming, and of course, seasonal allergies. While allergies may be a common cause of …