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 …
Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
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 …
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 …
Meeting Perspectives: American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2007- Report from the cardiology fellows
January 31, 2008
Commentary By: Steven Sedlis, MD Associate Professor of Medicine, Chief, Division of Cardiology Manhattan Veterans Administration Medical Center
This year’s AHA meeting was held in November in Orlando Florida. The cardiology fellows …
Grand Rounds: “Hyponatremia: Something Old, Something New”
January 30, 2008
Commentary by Elizabeth Haskins MD, PGY-3
This week’s Grand Rounds was delivered by Dr. Tomas Berl, Chief of the Nephrology Division at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver. Dr. Berl’s current …
Mystery Quiz
January 29, 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
A 78 year old man with a history of ankylosing spondylitis and known cardiac disease associated with congestive heart failure, presented with breathlessness one year …
ShortCuts-This Week in the Journals
January 28, 2008
Commentary by Henry Tran, MD
Old adage: just because it’s new doesn’t necessarily mean it’s better. The FDA approved the usage of drug-eluting stents (DES) in 2003 and these stents were quickly embraced …