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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 ReviewedÂ
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 …
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 …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
December 8, 2015
Jiwoon Chang, MD
Peer ReviewedÂ
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 …
Primecuts-This Week in the Journals
November 23, 2015
By Noam Broder, MD
This week in Primecuts we take a moment to honor the victims of the recent terror attacks in Paris and the emergency response teams who cared for the wounded. According to the Wall Street Journal, Paris’s hospital authority …
Primecuts-This Week in the Journals
November 17, 2015
By Amy Shen Tang, MD
Friday, November 13th unfortunately proved to be more than an unlucky day for Parisians. What initially sounded like firecrackers outside a soccer match at the Stade de France, with President Francois Hollande in …
Are We Overusing Proton Pump Inhibitors?
November 13, 2015
By Shimwoo Lee
Peer Reviewed
Case: A 31-year-old man with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes was hospitalized for community-acquired pneumonia. His home medications included esomeprazole. When asked why he was receiving this …