David Shabtai
Faculty Peer Reviewed
In a bold move, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recently changed their breast cancer screening guidelines – recommending beginning screening at age 50 and even then only every other …
Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
Primecuts-This Week in the Journals
May 3, 2010
The 21st Running of the City of Pittsburgh Marathon
Michael Ford, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
I am filing this dispatch from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A former home of steel, bratwurst, …
Physician Assisted Suicide: A Spiritual Challenge
April 30, 2010
Commentary on last week’s “Physician Assisted Suicide—Is now the time?” by Antonella Surbone, MD PhD FACP, Ethics Editor, Clinical Correlations.
Last week’s piece on Physician Assisted Suicide (PAS) by Dr. Juliana Eng addresses …
Motivational Interviewing: Can You Really Change Behaviors?
April 27, 2010
Emily Stamell
Faculty peer reviewed
As a well-trained fourth year medical student, I inquire about smoking habits as part of almost all my patient encounters. Yet, I do not recall …
Primecuts: This Week In the Journals
April 26, 2010
Bora Toklu, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
As the spring is phasing in, it’s again that time of the year when an uncomfortable guilt sets in as you recover from the …
Physician-assisted Suicide – Is Now the Time?
April 24, 2010
Juliana Eng MD
Several months ago, the U.K. courts ordered Ken Starmer, Director of Public Prosecutions, to delineate the conditions under which his office would be likely or unlikely to prosecute …
Alzheimer’s Disease 2.0
April 21, 2010
Jeffery Mayne MD
Faculty peer reviewed
Dr. Okonkwo’s post this past summer to PrimeCuts summarized ongoing research in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), the most common cause of dementia affecting 15 million …
Primecuts: This Week in the Journals
April 19, 2010
Chau Che, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
In the economic news this week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 11,000 for the first time since September 2008. It appears that the economy is …