By Rachael Winchester-Hayes, MD
Political friends and foes alike were shocked last month when Senator John McCain’s office announced his diagnosis of glioblastoma after what was thought to be a minor surgery for removal …
Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
Are Electronic Cigarettes Safer Than Traditional Cigarettes?
August 9, 2017
By Gabriel Lutz
Peer Reviewed
Due to the pervasiveness of television and print marketing of electronic cigarettes (e-cigs) in a multitude of flavors and device designs, e-cig use is on the rise in …
Tales of Survival-The Physician’s Stages of Grief (Based upon the Kübler-Ross Model)
August 4, 2017
By Lauren M. Young
Prologue/Narrowing a Diagnosis. A 61 year-old African American male, with a longstanding history of right knee and lower back pain, presented to the Emergency Department for …
Can I Safely Use Anticoagulants in my Patient with a Brain Tumor?
August 3, 2017
By Christopher Sonne, MD
Peer Reviewed
It is the last admission of your admitting night shift. You are called to assess a pleasant, oriented 65-year-old man with lung cancer and …
Primecuts – This Week in the Journals
July 31, 2017
By Jiwoon Chang, MD
Peer Reviewed
This past week at the International AIDS Society Conference in Paris, investigators of the mosaic HIV vaccination trial called APPROACH shared …
Primecuts – This Week in the Journals
July 25, 2017
Kelsey Luoma, MD
Peer Reviewed
Opioid-related morbidity and mortality has reached crisis levels in the United States. According to the CDC, between 1999 and 2014 more than 165,000 people died due to …
Primecuts – This Week in the Journals
July 19, 2017By Cesar Soria Jimenez, MD
Peer Reviewed
In this week’s Primecuts issue, we will be discussing topics related to obesity and its effects on the global population over the past quarter century …
Primecuts-This Week in the Journals
July 6, 2017
By David Rhee, MD
Peer Reviewed
A warm welcome to all the new interns! As the future of healthcare is debated in congress, there has been a great deal of attention …