Please enjoy this post from the archives dated June 28, 2013
By Sunny N. Shah, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Background:
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia and its prevalence increases with age. In fact, the lifetime incidence of AF is approximately …
By Jonathan Whitehouse, MD
Peer Reviewed
In New York last week, Mayor de Blasio announced a plan to tax wealthy New Yorkers in order to raise funds for our enfeebled subway system. It was …
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 …
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 …
By Lauren M. Young
Prologue/Narrowing a Diagnosis. Â A 61 year-old African American male, with a longstanding history of right knee and lower back pain, presented to the Emergency Department for …
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 …
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 …
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 …