Please enjoy this post from the archives dated November 2, 2011
By Nicholas Mark, MD & Sarah Buckley, MD
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Background
Publius Aelius Hadrianus, better known as Hadrian, emperor of Rome (117-138 CE), traveler, warrior, …
Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
August 5, 2014
By Tamar Schiff, MD
Peer Reviewed
Infectious diseases remain at the forefront of news reports this week, as the largest Ebola outbreak on record continues. As of July 27th, the WHO reported …
If You Could Give One Piece Of Advice To A Young Doctor…
July 25, 2014
By Ali Marisa Mendelson, MD
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It was late when I left the call room on my last day as an intern in the step-down unit, and I hesitated before …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
July 21, 2014
By Caroline A. Nelson, MD
Peer Reviewed
New legislation signed by Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has opened the door for medical school graduates to treat patients in underserved primary …
Medical Etymology: Scrofula
July 18, 2014
By Sagar S. Mungekar, MD
Peer Reviewed
It was around the 300s BCE when a sow must have had her snout near Mycobacterium intercellularae, an environmental saphrophyte that lives in …
Get Your Caffeine fix while lowering your diabetes risk – too good to be true?
July 17, 2014
By Jennifer Ng, MD
Peer Reviewed
Addiction, by definition, is a negative word. It implies the overindulging of something with a high or uncertain risk to benefit ratio, such as coffee. Yet …
Primecuts – This Week In the Journals
July 14, 2014
By Kimberly Skrobarcek, MD
Peer Reviewed
As the world is seemingly captivated by German’s victory in overtime of the World Cup final game, more and more of our television commercials and advertisements seem to …
Vit-a-minute: Are Supplements Worth It?
July 11, 2014
By Aditya K. Sreenivasan
Peer Reviewed
The Huffington Post recently publicized a large study on the health habits of doctors. The study, a survey done by Medscape with 31,399 participants, revealed that more than …