By Derek Moriyama, MD
He stared blankly at the ceiling. “Mr. K can you close your eyes?” my attending asked, speaking slowly and clearly, making sure that the patient could hear …
Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
From the Archives: The Complicated Story of Saturated Fat
January 11, 2018
Please enjoy this post from the archives dated November 8, 2013
By Gregory Katz, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Everyday in clinic, we tell our patients to choose foods low in saturated fat. Because these foods …
Primecuts-This Week in the Journals
January 8, 2018
By: Justin Feit, MD
We were welcomed to 2018 with the coldest New Year’s in New York City in over 50 years with a cool 10°F recorded in Times Square [1]. The …
Tales of Survival: Red Sox Rivalry
January 5, 2018
By Kate Otto Chebly
Peer Reviewed
Mr. Williams came to us as so many patients do.
“I just fell down,” he repeated, grumpily, his snaggletooth resting on his cracked, pursed lips.
Our team of eight …
Core IM Podcast: Mind the Gap on Albumin in SBP
January 3, 2018
Let’s go deeper as to why we do what we do: albumin in spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP)! Written by Dr. Steve Liu || Hosted by Dr. Steve Liu and …
How Can You Best Address Polypharmacy in the Elderly?
December 21, 2017
By Michael Nguyen
Peer Reviewed
Polypharmacy has been defined as the use of multiple unnecessary medications, the use of more medications than is clinically warranted or indicated, or the use of …
Primecuts-This Week in the Journals
December 18, 2017
By: Amanda Dowden, MD
This week, Alabama elected its first Democratic senate leader in 25 years, as democrat Doug Jones beat Republican Roy Moore in Alabama’s Senate Race. In local NYC news, in the wake of the opioid epidemic the Bronx opens …
Age Is Just a Number: Combating Muscle Loss in The Elderly
December 14, 2017
By Carl Preiksaitis
Peer Reviewed
The term “sarcopenia” was introduced in 1989 to characterize the loss of muscle mass that occurs as a consequence of advancing age.1 Use of the term …