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! This week, …
Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
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 likely …
From the Archives: Should All Patients with Cellulitis Be Treated for Community-Acquired Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus?
October 14, 2010Please enjoy a post from the Clinical Correlations Archives, first posted 1/22/09
Commentary by Melanie Maslow, MD, FACP, Associate Professor of Medicine, NYUSOM, Chief, Infectious Diseases, New York Harbor Healthcare System, NY
Faculty Peer …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
October 12, 2010
By Michael Fingerhood, MD, MPH
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Last week the world’s eyes were on Stockholm, Sweden and the announcement of the 2010 Nobel Prize Awards. We …
Circumcision as Primary Protection?
October 8, 2010
Emily Taylor, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
The earliest documented evidence of circumcision is in artwork from the Sixth Dynasty in Egypt …
Does Vitamin D Supplementation Reduce the Risk of Cardiovascular Events?
October 6, 2010
By Karina Vivar, MS4
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Vitamin D deficiency is highly prevalent in the U.S. and worldwide, and the problem appears to be worsening. By definition, vitamin D …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
October 4, 2010
By Lakshmi Tummala, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
While everyone is talking about the passage of further work hour restrictions, now limiting interns to 16-hour shifts in hopes of preventing or at least reducing “medical …
Asking the Potentially Answerable Clinical Question
October 1, 2010
By Dorice L. Vieira M.A., M.L.S.
Faculty Peer Reviewed
The title to this feature may seem a bit odd, but there is a proper way to ask evidence-based clinical …