Commentary by Rosemary Adamson MD, PGY-2
Be on the look-out for measles! New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) issued a measles alert at the end of last November because there were 5 confirmed …
Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
ShortCuts-This Week in the Journals
February 18, 2008
Commentary by Michael Poles MD, Associate Editor, Clinical Correlations
Welcome back blogophiles to this week’s clinical correlations. Hope you all had a nice President’s Day weekend. Now, let’s move on to the discussion.
Grand Rounds: “Fibromyalgia and Homeopathy: Holmes, Hogwarts and the Prince of Wales”
February 14, 2008
Commentary by Nitasha Sarswat MD, PGY-3
This week’s Medicine Grand Rounds speaker was Gerald Weissmann, MD, a familiar face at Bellevue/NYU. He is a professor of rheumatology, the former chairman of the Department …
Clinical Pathology Conference 1/08- The Answer
February 13, 2008Case Presentation by Minisha Sood MD, Chief Resident
Please review the posting of our prior CPC here.
When you’re ready you can download the CPC Answer.
Shortcuts-This Week in the Journals
February 11, 2008
Commentary by Aaron Lord MD, Copy Editor, Clinical Correlations
The medical news event of the week was of course the early termination of the glucose control arm of the ACCORD trial, which showed increased …
A New Path for the ACCORD (The Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes) trial: Does Being Sweeter Save Lives?
February 8, 2008
Commentary by Melissa Freeman MD, Endocrinology Section Editor
The ACCORD trial is an ongoing 5-year, North American, randomized study that began in 2001 to evaluate potential interventions to decrease cardiovascular (CV) events in adults …
Mystery Quiz- The Answer
February 6, 2008Posted By: Vivian Hayashi, MD, Instructor of Clinical Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine and Robert Smith, MD Associate Professor of Medicine, Division Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
The answer to the mystery quiz is lung cancer, in particular, adenocarcinoma with a predominantly bronchoalveolar cell pattern (BAC). The clue to the mystery was …
Shortcuts-This Week in the Journals: The Superbowl Edition
February 5, 2008
Commentary By: Joshua Olstein, MD Associate Editor, Clinical Correlations
Let’s begin this week by congratulating the Superbowl XLII champion New York Giants on an excellent victory. As Americans wakes up the day after and begin to recover from …