Please enjoy this post from the archives dated March 28, 2012
By Robert Gianotti , MD, Todd Cutler, MD and Patrick Cocks, MD
Welcome. We are proud to present the first installment of a new section dedicated …
Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
The Quest for the HIV Vaccine: Are We Closer Than We Think?
January 20, 2016
By Amar Parikh, MD
Peer Reviewed
Amidst the global panic over the recent Ebola outbreak, another well-known pathogen that has been devastating the world for decades continues to smolder—the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). According to …
Lies My Patients Told Me: “I Take My Medications Every Day.”
January 15, 2016
By Rebecca Sussman
Peer Reviewed
Reviewing medical evidence has become such a habit that sometimes it feels almost impossible to think independently. I’ve always been a top-down thinker; I go with my gut instinct, …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
January 11, 2016
By Matthew McNeill, MD
Peer Reviewed
The holidays have ended, the trees and tinsel have been taken down, and winter has officially arrived in New York City. Unseasonably warm weather (from the second …
Primecuts-This Week in the Journals
December 23, 2015
By Pooja Gala, MD
Last week, world leaders convened in Paris to sign a landmark climate deal. 186 countries submitted plans to reduce greenhouse gas pollution to “hold the increase in the …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
December 16, 2015
By David Pineles, MD
Peer Reviewed
On Sunday, December 6th, President Barack Obama addressed the nation from the Oval Office following the horrific mass shooting in San Bernardino, California which left 14 people dead and …
Is It Time to Reconsider Who Should Get Metformin?
December 11, 2015 
By Lauren Strazzulla
Current FDA guidelines for the use of metformin stipulate that it not be prescribed to those with an elevated creatinine (at or above 1.5 mg/dL for men and 1.4 mg/dL for women). It is also …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
December 8, 2015
Jiwoon Chang, MD
Peer Reviewed
This past week we witnessed another senseless mass shooting in San Bernardino, California that killed 14 people. The FBI is investigating this act of violence as a terror …