The Proper Diagnosis and Treatment of Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo
Carly Oboudiyat
Faculty peer reviewed
You finally have the “dizzy” patient whose eyes actually beat torsionally upwards when you …
Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
Chief of Service Rounds: Should You Always Stop Anticoagulating a Bleeding Patient?
January 20, 2010
Chief-of-service rounds is a new feature of Clinical Correlations. Here we summarize Bellevue Hospital’s Chief of Service Rounds moderated by the Chief of Medicine, Nate Link, MD. This multidisciplinary bimonthly conference focuses on a …
Primecuts-This Week in the Journals
January 18, 2010
Megha Shah, MD
Facutly Peer Reviewed
As you sit down to read this week’s Primecuts, just take a few moments to think about those affected by the tradegy in …
The Ethics of Electronic Health Records
January 15, 2010
John J. Mercuri
Faculty peer reviewed
Introduction
The 111th Congress allocated $19 billion of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 toward the …
How Do You Advise the Balding Patient?
January 13, 2010
Sagar Mungekar
Faculty Peer Reviewed
The incidence of male pattern hair loss can reach almost 100% in some ethnic groups.1, 2 While treatment of the condition is usually …
PrimeCuts: This Week in the Journals
January 11, 2010
Kathir Palanisamy MD
Faculty peer reviewed
With the recent Christmas day terrorist attack fresh in our memories, the New York Times published an article about some of the health risks of the …
Tales of Survival: The Rock’s Wife
January 8, 2010
John Trahanas
She was not my patient. Actually, she was nobody’s patient, she was just a wife; she was “the family.” She was a rough, stern looking woman, and …
Some gleanings from the meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) in Philadelphia, October 29-November 1. 2009
January 6, 2010
Neal H. Steigbigel, M.D.
The recent IDSA meeting reviewed many important and interesting findings. Topics spanned a wide array of subjects, many of which are of importance and interest to all physicians. …