By Michael Lee, MD
Peer Reviewed
The human taste bud has become increasingly accustomed to the Japanese invention of the early 20th century: monosodium glutamate, better known as MSG. Its basic component, glutamate, …
Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
April 28, 2014
By Nicole Van Groningen, MD
Peer reviewed
NYU Langone made headlines in the New York Times this week with the re-opening of its emergency room, over 18 months after waters from the East River flooded the hospital during Hurricane Sandy [1]. …
Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing: Impact on Patients and Preventive Medicine
April 25, 2014
By Neelesh Rastogi
Peer Reviewed
In reference to the $100,000 he spent to research the genetic basis of the pancreatic cancer that ultimately killed him, Steve Jobs famously said, “I’m either going …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
April 22, 2014
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 …
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 …
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 …