By Elizabeth Park, MD
Peer reviewed
Super Bowl fever also hit Times Square this week as tens of thousands of people headed to the New York metropolitan area for the Super Bowl. The Super Bowl is more than just a football …
Clinical Correlations
The NYU Langone Health Online Journal of Medicine
Tales of Survival: A Dose of Perspective
January 31, 2014
By Kaitlyn Dugan
My steps echoed in the hallway of the 17th floor of Bellevue Hospital as my head remained buried in the H&P my resident handed me only a few seconds earlier. Mr. W was a 64 year-old African American …
From The Archives: Forgoing the Fear: Contrast Nephropathy
January 30, 2014
Please enjoy this post from the archives, dated June 15, 2011
By Mario V Fusaro, MD
Faculty Peer Reviewed
There are certain laws in the universe that are just not meant to be broken. One is gravity. Another one is relativity. The …
How Much Do We Know About HDL Cholesterol?
January 29, 2014
By Gregory Katz, MD
Peer Reviewed
As levels of HDL cholesterol increase, rates of heart disease go down. It’s this fact that has given HDL its reputation as the “good cholesterol,†…
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
January 27, 2014
By Luke O’Donnell, MD
Peer Reviewed
This was a week of confusion both old and new. How did a chance of flurries become a major winter storm? Did Beyoncé sign “Happy Birthday” …
Book Review – Medicine’s Michelangelo: The Life & Art of Frank H. Netter, MD
January 24, 2014
By Matthew Vorsanger, MD
The delicate tracery of the superficial nervous system, the sweeping curves of the lobes of the liver, the bones of the skull – color coded in pastel blues, pinks, and greens. For many of …
Can Young Patients Get Diverticular Disease?
January 23, 2014
By Aaron Smith, MD
Peer Reviewed
Case: A 35 year-old, overweight female presents to the emergency room with five days of left lower quadrant abdominal pain. The pain is 10/10 in …
Primecuts – This Week In The Journals
January 21, 2014
By Stephanie Gallitano, MD
Peer Reviewed
This week marks the 50-year anniversary since the Surgeon General released a report detailing health consequences of smoking. Since then, the evidence linking smoking with disease in nearly every organ system …