Clinical Correlations

The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine


Prostate Cancer and Antioxidants

Heme/Onc Urology 4 min read

Commentary 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 …

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PrimeCuts: This Week in the Journals

PrimeCuts 4 min read

flowers.JPGCommentary 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 …

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Morning Report: Hepatorenal Syndrome

GI Renal 4 min read

kidneybeans.jpgCommentary 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 was …

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Is prescribing placebos an ethical practice?

Ethics 5 min read

placebo.jpgCommentary 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 …

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PrimeCuts: This Week in the Journals

PrimeCuts 4 min read

pilot.JPGCommentary 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.  …

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PrimeCuts: This Week in the Journals

PrimeCuts 4 min read

trees.JPGCommentary by Michael Poles MD, Associate Editor, Clinical Correlations 

Welcome to this week’s primecuts. Let’s slice right in and take a big bite out of last week’s medical news, starting with a little …

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