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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
Mystery Quiz
May 3, 2007Posted By Robert Smith, MD Associate Professor of Medicine, Division Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
The patient is an 81 year old male with severe obstructive lung disease who was referred to the pulmonary service for an abnormal chest x-ray prior to femoral-popliteal bypass surgery. The patient complained of chronic dyspnea …
Is the PPD obsolete?
May 1, 2007
In February of this year the New York City Department of Health released a new policy paper indicating that they will no longer use the PPD as a screening tool for tuberculosis in their clinics.They have switched to the QuantiFERON-TB Gold, (QFT-G), a …