Emily Breidbart
Faculty peer reviewed
As the threat of the swine flu surfaced in early 2009, doctors and the media referenced the influenza of 1918. Also known as the Spanish flu, this …
Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
PrimeCuts: This Week in the Journals
September 21, 2009
Carolyn Bevan MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
With health care spending increasing at an unsustainable rate while an estimated 46 million Americans live without insurance [1], the urgent need for healthcare …
Diseases 2.0: Rheumatoid Arthritis
September 18, 2009
Diseases 2.0 – Bringing you the latest updates on disease pathophysiology and treatment
Rachana Jani MD
Faculty peer reviewed
Rheumatoid arthritis is a well-recognized but enigmatic disease afflicting …
The Utility of GlycoMark ™: 1,5 Anhydroglucitol as a Marker for Glycemic Control
September 16, 2009
David R. Friedmann MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Hemoglobin A1 (Hb A1c) is the standard method for monitoring diabetic patients’ long-term glycemic control by indicating average blood glucose levels over …
PrimeCuts: This Week in the Journals
September 14, 2009
Michael Ford MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Last spring, The New York Times published a series of articles that examined the status of “the War on Cancer,” initiated some 40 years …
Tales of Survival: A Formidable Foe
September 12, 2009
Bellevue Hospital, the nation’s oldest public hospital and the heart of our residency program, provides unique and unforgettable training for new physicians. It is probably safe to say that every resident who trains at Bellevue graduates with a …
Wheal and Flare: Chronic Urticaria Revisited
September 9, 2009
Erin Ducharme MD
Faculty peer reviewed by Rardi Feigenbaum MD
Urticaria is a common cutaneous disorder characterized by transient edematous plaques resulting from acute dermal edema and surrounding erythema. Roughly …
Primecuts-This Week in the Journals
September 7, 2009
Robert Gianotti, MD
Labor Day is upon us and the summer is now officially over…and what a summer it has been! The entire world was gripped with fears of H1N1, …