By David Hormozdi, MD
The weather outside may be cooling off but the debate surrounding lung cancer screening is heating up once again as preliminary results released from The National Lung Screening …
Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
From The Archives: Is Prescribing Placebos An Ethical Practice?
November 4, 2010
Please enjoy this post from the Clinical Correlations archives first posted February 18, 2009
Commentary by Antonella Surbone, MD PhD FACP, NYU Department of Medicine, Clinical Correlations Ethics Section Editor
In October 2008, BMJ published a research article entitled “Prescribing placebo …
Creatine Kinase: How Much is Too Much?
November 3, 2010
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 …
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 condition …
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 welcome …
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 is …
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 your …