By Jon-Emile Kenny, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
A 37-year-old man, with no past medical history and taking finasteride for male pattern baldness, is admitted to Medicine with profound lower extremity …
Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
November 1, 2010
By Lucy Doyle, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Perhaps no greater health-related headline shook the world this week as much as news of a deadly cholera outbreak afflicting our neighbor to …
Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis-An Evolving Disease Entity
October 27, 2010
By Kevin Hsueh, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
In 2006 and 2007, Clinical Correlations reported on the FDA’s announcement of a link between Nephrogenic Systemic Fibrosis (NSF), a rare progressive …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
October 25, 2010
By Chris Tully, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
As New York City begins to feel less and less like summer, and more and more like fall, Primecuts is here to …
How do you Manage the Adult with Perinatally Acquired Hepatitis B?
October 22, 2010
Nathaniel Rosso Smilowitz, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Hepatitis B virus is a DNA hepadnavirus affecting 1.25 million people in the United States and nearly 400 million worldwide. The virus …
From the Archives – $50,000: The price of a car or the price of life?
October 21, 2010
Commentary by Vlad Fridman, MD
$50,000. This is the price of a new (and cheap) model BMW, and also a price the US government is willing to spend to prolong …
Primecuts-This Week in the Journals
October 18, 2010
By: Demetrios Tzimas, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
While the rest of the world was watching the rescuing of “Los 33,” I was searching for love; actually, love found me! …
The Doctor Versus the Google Search: How to Enrich the Provider-Patient Relationship in the Age of Internet Health Information
October 15, 2010
By Suzanne MacFarland, MS4
Faculty Peer Reviewed
There is a stranger in the clinic room, and it is not your patient. This stranger is a multifaceted, opinionated entity with …