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Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
Clinical Pharmacy Corner-The Thiazides
May 17, 2007We’d like to introduce you to Clinical Correlations’ newest feature-Clinical Pharmacy Corner. This will be a bimonthly pharmacy themed post which will tackle both basic and complicated pharmacy issues. We will review the mechanisms of actions of various classes of medications, a worthwhile refresher for those of us …
Mystery Quiz #3-The Answer
May 15, 2007Before you read the answer you should read the orginal post form last week
The Final Poll Results (26 votes): metastatic disease (26%) , mycobacterial disease (22%) ,fungal disease (22%), bronchiolitis obliterans with organizing pneumonia (boop) (13%), septic emboli (9%) ,vasculitis, e.g. wegener’s (4%), thromboembolic disease (4%), sarcoid (0%)
ShortCuts-The War on the Pharmaceutical Industry Edition
May 14, 2007
Welcome to our first theme issue of ShortCuts. This week, we decided to focus on the tribulations of the pharmaceutical industry, which recently seems to be plagued by new FDA advisories and NY Times exposés.
The first bad news for pharmaceutical companies occurred …
Meeting Perspectives-Internal Medicine 2007 -The American College of Physicians
May 11, 2007
By: Mitchell Charap, MD Senior Associate Program Director, NYU Internal Medicine Residency Program
The ACP’s annual session is a bit different from other major annual medical meetings. In general it is an excellent review of the prior year’s literature rather than a …
Clinical Pathology Conference 5/11/07
May 10, 2007
Welcome to the first posting of our NYU Department of Medicine’s Clinical Pathology Conference. Use the links below to review the case and the radiological findings. Our faculty and medical students will be attempting to diagnose this unknown …
The HPV vaccine: Recommended in the U.S., but required in Virginia
May 8, 2007
Commentary By: Marshall Fordyce, PGY-3
Now that the dust has settled in Texas and Virginia, let’s clarify the role of the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine in our clinics. An excellent article in last week’s JAMA by its Editor-In-Chief, Dr. Catherine DeAngelis, and Lawrence Gostin, …
ShortCuts-This Week in the Journals
May 7, 2007
9p21. More than just three numbers and one letter, this stretch of DNA, which is present in 1 out of five Caucasians, results in a 64% increase in the risk of myocardial infarction. Two groups, performing genome-wide association studies, made this discovery, which …