Molly Cason
Faculty peer reviewed
In a city of over 8 million people, New York City has an annual tuberculosis case rate of 11.4 per 100,000 people, which is more …
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Clinical Correlations
What Should We Know About Bedbugs?
February 18, 2010
Jia Huang
Faculty peer reviewed
A 46 year-old Asian female presented with recurrent pruritic erythematous papules in a partially linear pattern over her forearms, face, and trunk. Each papule measured about 3/4 inch …
Zinc Cold Remedies: Are They Safe and Effective–Who Nose?
February 11, 2010
Amanda Benkoff
Faculty peer reviewed
Each year doctors are presented with the dilemma of the common cold. Adults in the U.S. experience an average of 3 colds …
Oldies but Goodies: How should you approach a low titer +RPR?
February 5, 2010Please enjoy a post from the Clinical Correlations Archives, first posted November 28, 2006…
45 year old male with a history of Hepatitis B ( Hep B Surf Ag + …
Some gleanings from the meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) in Philadelphia, October 29-November 1. 2009
January 6, 2010
Neal H. Steigbigel, M.D.
The recent IDSA meeting reviewed many important and interesting findings. Topics spanned a wide array of subjects, many of which are of importance and interest to all physicians. …
It’s Lyme Season: How Should You Manage the Tick-bitten Patient?
October 14, 2009
Joshua Allen-Dicker
Faculty peer reviewed
A healthy 42-year old patient presents to your office after a day of hiking with his family in Upstate New York. This morning in …
The Forgotten Influenza of 1918: When a Strong Immune System Becomes a Weakness
September 23, 2009
Emily Breidbart
Faculty peer reviewed
As the threat of the swine flu surfaced in early 2009, doctors and the media referenced the influenza of 1918. Also known as the Spanish flu, …
Can you offer a liver transplant to a patient with HIV?
August 28, 2009
Faculty Peer Reviewed
Uzma Sarwar MD
Coincident with greater use of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), chronic liver disease has become one of the leading causes of death amongst HIV patients. …