Commentary by Michael Tanner MD, Section Editor, Clinical Correlations
Michael Pollan wrote last year in In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, “…the history of modern nutritionism has been a history of macronutrients …
Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
Prostate Cancer and Antioxidants
February 25, 2009Commentary by Christopher Tully MD, PGY-1
Faculty Peer Reviewed
An apple a day. . . keeps the prostate cancer away? While it is an overstatement to say that an apple can prevent cancer, the notion of taking “something” to prevent cancer initiation and growth is nothing new. Primary prevention has …
PrimeCuts: This Week in the Journals
February 23, 2009
Commentary by Ryan Farley MD, PGY-3
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Hot off the press from the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) this week is an original article comparing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) with coronary artery …
Morning Report: Hepatorenal Syndrome
February 19, 2009
Commentary by Catherine Lucero MD, PGY-3
Faculty Peer Reviewed
The patient is a 69-year old woman from El Salvador with a chief complaint of worsening abdominal distension for nine months. Three months earlier, the patient …
Is prescribing placebos an ethical practice?
February 18, 2009
Commentary by Antonella Surbone, MD PhD FACP, NYU Department of Medicine, Clinical Correlations Ethics Section Editor
In October 2008, BMJ published a research article entitled “Prescribing placebo treatments: results of a national survey of …
PrimeCuts: This Week in the Journals
February 16, 2009
Commentary by Josh Remick MD, NYU Senior Chief Resident
It was quite the week in Medicine, spanning from politics to plagiarism, pregnancy to pain, steroids to statins and artificial limbs to A-Roid. …
Real Time Clinical Question: Rheumatology
February 13, 2009
Commentary by Jon-Emile Kenny MD, PGY- 2
Faculty Peer Reviewed
At morning report, the case of a 55 F with known dermatomyositis (DM), and interstitial lung involvement who had presented to the hospital …
Grand Rounds: “Health Care Access and Its Impact on Health Disparities”
February 11, 2009
Commentary by Zackary Berger MD PhD, PGY-3, Health Care Policy Section Editor
As Massachusetts’ Secretary of Health and Human Services, JudyAnn Bigby, MD, is charged with overseeing the health-care program which covers nearly all of the Commonwealth’s residents …