Commentary by Rosemary Adamson, PGY2, Deena Altman PGY-1 and Harold Horowitz, Professor of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases
Syphilis is back! You know the drill: an 80-something year old man presents with dementia and …
Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
Clinical Pathology Conference 8/16/07
August 16, 2007
Case Presentation By: Marshall Fordyce, Senior Chief Resident
Welcome to the monthly posting of our NYU Department of Medicine’s Clinical Pathology Conference. Use the links below to review the case and the …
Clinical Pharmacology Corner: Beta-Adrenergic Receptors Antagonists
August 14, 2007
Commentary by Helen Kourlas, PharmD
Beta-adrenergic receptor antagonists, commonly known as beta-blockers (B-blockers) have been used for decades to treat hypertension, ischemic heart disease and some arrhythmias – and more recently to treat …
Shortcuts-This Week in the Journals
August 13, 2007
Commentary By Sean Cavanaugh, M.D. Associate Editor, Clinical Correlations
With the ever-increasing public concern about drug safety, and the profusion of wave-making research into clinical endpoints, occasional very public collisions are inevitable. And so opens this week’s Shortcuts…
Two recent …
Health Care Reform: An Overview of Recent Proposals
August 9, 2007
Commentary by Zackary Berger MD PhD, PGY-2
In the political arena, reforming health care is continually a major domestic issue. It’s no surprise that the lead 2008 democratic contenders cite the same statistic …
Part II- Subclinical Thyroid Dysfunction: To Treat or Not to Treat?
August 8, 2007
Commentary by Melissa Freeman MD, PGY2
Please also see Part I of this series
In 2002, the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE), the American Thyroid Association (ATA), and The Endocrine Society (TES) sponsored an evidence- …
ShortCuts-This Week in the Journals
August 6, 2007
Commentary by Cara Litvin MD, Executive Editor Clinical Correlations
Avandia again made headlines this week when an FDA advisory committee voted to allow the drug to remain on the market despite new data …
Atrial Fibrillation Part 2: Additional Words of Wisdom
August 3, 2007
Commentary by William Slater, MD Associate Professor of Medicine, Divsion of Cardiology
The vast majority of patients with persistent AF can be rendered asymptomatic with AV nodal blocking drugs and don’t require ablation. Digitalis …