Over 100 cases have been reported to the FDA involving the use of Tamiflu and the development of hallucinations, delerium and other unusual behavior mainly in Japanese children. From the Chicago Tribune article "Health officials have been sensitive about …
Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
Google to Replace Physicians?
November 13, 2006
So someone has finally done an official “study” of what most of us were already aware of. Online at the BMJ is a study proving Google’s diagnostic ability. The researchers took 3-5 terms from case reports from the NEJM, fed them into …
Getting Published
November 10, 2006
I knew I should have patented my idea for The Journal of Anecdotal Medicine…I certainly joked enough about it for the last several years. Now here comes The Journal of Medical Case Reports. From their website: …
Improving Stroke Recovery-The EXCITE Trial
November 9, 2006The EXCITE trial was the lead article in last week’s JAMA. It looks at a 2 week program of contstraint induced movement therapy vs. usual care in patients suffering a cva within the previous 3-9 months. Pt’s in the treatment arm wore a restraining mitt on …
Diagnostic Dilemma #1-Faculty Response
November 8, 2006Commentary By Michael Poles, M.D. Gastroenterologist, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Mircrobiology and Pathology.
Welcome blog readers to this inauguration of the NYU medicine blog. If the future cases are as interesting as this one, I am sure we will be having a lot of fun, and …
Diagnostic Dilemma #1
November 7, 2006
The first in our series of clinical cases with difficult management questions…
Question: 59 y.o. male with pmh notable for hyperlipidemia. Pt had normal lft's, which increased mildly when he was put on a statin. His basic hepatitis screen including A, …
Palm Pilot Software
November 6, 2006
For those of you with palmpilots or treos this site Ectopic Brain is an excelent resource for all medical software written for the pda. Updated almost daily it features palm specific software with full well written reviews. We’ll be highlighting useful pda software over the next …
Statins and CHF
November 3, 2006
This week’s JAMA has an enormous study that looks at chf patients and the use of statins. Data from ~25,000 patients with chf were analyzed for use of statin in the 120 days prior to the initial chf …