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 metastases to the …
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 metastases to the …
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 their early …
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 opioid drug …
By 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 (the effects …
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 on Medicaid …
By David Pineles, MD
Peer Reviewed
In a major blow to the Democratic party, Republican Karen Handel won the special congressional election in Georgia, fending off Democrat Jon Ossoff [1]. While some see …
By Michelle Lo, MD
Peer Reviewed
This past week marks the first leg of president Trump’s foreign trip starting at Saudi Arabia, where he was lavished with extravagant gifts. While former president Obama …
By Maxine W Stachel, MD
Peer Reviewed
The past week saw a massive worldwide cyber-hacking attack that affected many well-known brands and, disturbingly, at least a dozen hospitals in Britain’s National Health Service. Using …