Although it’s almost spring and the spate of “best of the year” lists are now long gone, I recently came across this list from the AMA news. It’s a summary of their most intriguing facts of 2006. It’s fascinating stuff. Some of the …
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Does the Overuse of Macrolides Lead to Antibiotic Resistance?
March 12, 2007
Commentary By: Danise Schiliro, PGY-3
Although intuitively we always worry about creating drug resistance when using antibiotics, there is a surprising lack of well done studies that show a clear causal effect of antibiotic use on the development of subsequent drug resistance. A …
How Do You Approach A Patient with a Non-Ischemic Cardiomyopathy
March 7, 2007
A 26 year old woman developed uncontrolled hypertension peripartum 5 years prior to this presentation After diagnosis she was intermittently compliant with her medication although remained asymptomatic. She now presents with new onset congestive heart failure. On admission, she was in …
More Breaking News: Rosiglitazone Linked to Fractures
March 6, 2007
Commentary By: Cara Litvin PGY-3
The FDA recently informed physicians of a report issued by GlaxoSmithKline acknowledging that Avandia (rosiglitazone) has been linked to increased fractures in females (1). The report stems from a review of the safety data from ADOPT (A Diabetes …
Gone Fishin’
February 23, 2007
Due to vital conflicting commitments (vacation), Clinical Correlations will be closed until March 6th when we will resume posting new content. This is the perfect opportunity to catch up on our previous content and to think about what …
The Vioxx Wars
Commentary By: Sandeep Mangalmurti MD, JD PGY-1
The continuing legal battles over Vioxx remain at the center of a fascinating intersection of law and medicine. Most physicians are well acquainted with the basics of the case, but like …
Safety of Long-Acting Beta-Agonists in the Treatment of Asthma: Should they be used?
February 21, 2007
Commentary By: Sarah Huen, PGY-3 and David Chong, Director of Critical Care, Bellevue Hospital, Associate NYU Internal Medicine Residency Program Director
The role of long-acting b-agonists (LABAs) in the treatment of asthma continues to be controversial. Growing evidence that LABAs may cause an …
Evolution of a Blog-Clinical Correlations 2.0
February 20, 2007
You may have noticed a few changes here at Clinical Correlations. First if you look at the top of the page we have a great new logo created by a professional graphics arts designer. Second, …