Chau Che MD
This week ended on a high note in the financial world. The Dow bounced back and crossed the 10,000 mark this week, ultimately ending the week slightly below that …
Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
It’s Lyme Season: How Should You Manage the Tick-bitten Patient?
October 14, 2009
Joshua Allen-Dicker
Faculty peer reviewed
A healthy 42-year old patient presents to your office after a day of hiking with his family in Upstate New York. This morning in the …
PrimeCuts: This Week in the Journals
October 12, 2009
Michael Tees, MD, MPH
While the news was dominated by President Barack Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize, other American Nobel Laureates should not be forgotten. After all, Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol …
Medicine by the Numbers
October 9, 2009
Chris Tully MD
Faculty peer reviewed
What is the number of patients needed to prophylax to prevent an episode of venous thromboembolism in a hospitalized medical patient?
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What is Wellens’ Syndrome?
October 7, 2009Erin Ducharme MD
Faculty peer reviewed
Wellens’ syndrome refers to a pattern of ECG signs occurring during chest-pain free periods in patients with unstable angina, heralding critical, proximal left anterior descending artery (LAD) stenosis [1,2]. The eponym honors Dr. Hein J.J. Wellens who first described this …
Primecuts-This Week in the Journals
October 5, 2009
Rachana Jani MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
As summer officially leaves us and fall sets in, the headlines understandably continue to focus on preventative medicine. Hopes of an H1N1 vaccine were finally …
Sleep, Memory, and Medical Students
October 2, 2009
Megan Mulligan
Faculty peer reviewed by Dr. David Rapoport
The role of sleep in memory formation is an intriguing topic that has garnered widespread interest among researchers in recent years. …
When Should You Obtain a Renal Biopsy? Indications, Risks, Follow-up and Value
September 30, 2009
Frederick Gandolfo MD
Faculty peer reviewed
At a recent conference on renal transplantation, the importance of early renal biopsy for the diagnosis of acute rejection was emphasized. As busy practitioners …