By Harry Saag, MD
Peer Reviewed
Roughly one year ago the city of Boston was in upheaval after two young men set off bombs in close proximity to the city’s landmark marathon, injuring hundreds of people. One year later the city was, …
Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
April 14, 2014
By Arnab Ghosh, MD
Peer Reviewed
With the awakening of Spring this week, the City basks in its new growth. Wandering the streets and avenues, the parks and riversides, they resemble the concord …
Should Physicians Ask Patients about Guns?
April 11, 2014
By Jennifer Zhu
Peer Reviewed
After the elementary school shooting in Newtown, CT in December 2012 that left 20 children and 6 adults dead, the country reacted as it had …
Type 1 Diabetes: Research for Pancreatic Replacement, Transplantation and Regeneration
April 10, 2014
By Karin Katz, MD and Loren Wissner Greene, MD, MA
Peer Reviewed
In 1964, Dr. Arnold Kadish used real-time glucose monitoring to adjust insulin infusion in a …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
April 7, 2014
By Matthew Vorsanger, MD
Peer Reviewed
It seems that over the past week, New York has finally started to emerge from the deep-freeze of winter; and as we see the beginnings of …
From The Archives: They’re all the ‘roid rage: origins and mechanisms of corticosteroid therapy.
April 3, 2014
Please enjoy this post from the archives dated September 23, 2011
By Santosh Vardhana, MD
A 36-year-old obese male with hypertension and hyperlipidemia presents to the ER with new knee pain, swelling, and erythema. Joint aspiration reveals negatively birefringent crystals. …
Primecuts – This Week in the Journals
April 2, 2014
By Jennifer Mulliken, MD
Peer reviewed
The Eiffel Tower, an historic symbol of industry and science in France, celebrates its 125th anniversary this week. On March 31st, 1889, the first visitors ascended by foot to the top …
A Randomized Trial of Flattery
April 1, 2014
By Michael Tanner, MD
Background
A small body of low-quality evidence suggests that flattery will get you nowhere. We, rigorously applying the tools of evidence-based medicine, …