–Commentary by Susan Morey, PharmD. Pharmacy Practice Resident
A true allergy to penicillin is known to occur in less than 10% of patients exposed to penicillin. 1, 2 The cross-reactivity to cephalosporins has been reported to be approximately …
Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
Meeting Perspectives: Digestive Disease Week (DDW) 2007
June 20, 2007
Commentary by Milini Sahu, MD Fellow, Division of Gastrotenterology, Gina Sam-DeRiggs, Fellow, Division of Gastroenterology, and Michael Poles MD, Assistant Professor, NYU Division of Gastroenterology and Associate Editor, Clinical Correlations
Close to 17,000 gastroenterologists attended Digestive Disease …
ShortCuts-This Week in The Journals
June 18, 2007
A study reported in this week’s issue of JAMA attempts to correlate preoperative hematocrit levels with postoperative outcomes in elderly veterans undergoing noncardiac surgery. Both 30-day postoperative mortality and cardiac event rates increased in patients with hematocrits …
Clinical Pathology Conference 6/8/07-The Answer
June 15, 2007Please review the posting of last week’s CPC Case here.
When you’re ready you can download the CPC Answer here.
$50,000: The price of a car or the price of life?
June 14, 2007
Commentary by Vlad Fridman MD, PGY-2
$50,000. This is the price of a new (and cheap) model BMW, and also a price the US government is willing to spend to prolong your medically trained (or everyone else’s for …
Hyperparathyroidism in Chronic Kidney Disease
June 13, 2007
Commentary by Sarah Berry MD, PGY-3 and Joseph Weisstuch, MD Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Divsion of Nephrology
Case: Mr. K is a 59 year old gentleman with a past medical history of hypertension, non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia …
Clinical Commentary: The Travesty of Grinding Axes with Science: Rosiglitazone and Cardiac Risk
June 12, 2007
Welcome to our first blog commentary. One of the purposes of the blog is to generate discussion about issues in health care. This “Clinical Commentary” section is an invitation to our housestaff and faculty to submit their own thoughts and viewpoints …
ShortCuts- This Week in the Journals
June 11, 2007
It has been a little while, but stem cells are back in the news. Congress has passed legislation to provide more money for stem cell research, but did not reach a veto-proof majority. Meanwhile, scientists at MIT have successfully …