Commentary by Carrie Mahowald MD
Case: GS, a 65 year old man with only a history of severe OA, is seen in pre-op clinic for medical clearance before his hip replacement. On his pre-op x-ray, …
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Meeting Perspectives: American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases
February 27, 2008
Last November, thousands of eager hepatologists descended on Boston to attend the AASLD Liver Meeting. While there was an enormous amount of hepatology information presented, one intrepid GI fellow, Ponni Perumalswami MD, has compiled a …
Grand Rounds: “Insulin Resistance: Implications for Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes”
February 26, 2008
Commentary by Melissa Freeman MD, PGY2
This week’s Grand Rounds was delivered by Dr. Gerald Shulman, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.P. Professor of Internal Medicine and Cellular & Molecular Physiology and Investigator at the …
ShortCuts-This Week in the Journals
February 25, 2008
Commentary by Danise Schiliro-Chuang MD, NYU Chief Resident
Hello and welcome to this week’s shortcuts. Let’s jump right to what’s new in the journals.
Two large, multicenter, randomized controlled studies published in the February …
Bedside Rounds Series: Goiter
February 21, 2008Commentary by Kristin Remus MD, PGY-3, and Judith Brenner MD, Associate Program Director, NYU Internal Medicine Residency Program
The purpose of the physical diagnosis series is to review the origins, pathophysiology and actual techniques of common physical diagnoses. Our hopes are to renew interest in an area of medicine that is …
Measles Alert!
February 20, 2008
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 …
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 …
Grand Rounds: “Fibromyalgia and Homeopathy: Holmes, Hogwarts and the Prince of Wales”
February 14, 2008Commentary 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 …