Sharing successes, challenges and daily happenings in the Department of Medicine
ARTICLE: Feasibility of blood testing combined with PET-CT to screen for cancer and guide intervention AUTHORS: Anne Marie Lennon, Adam H. Buchanan, Isaac Kinde, Andrew… Read More »Feasibility of blood testing combined with PET-CT to screen for cancer and guide intervention
ARTICLE: Kidney diseases in the time of COVID-19: major challenges to patient care AUTHORS: Hamid Rabb JOURNAL: J Clin Invest. 2020 Apr 6. pii: 138871. doi:… Read More »Kidney diseases in the time of COVID-19: major challenges to patient care
ARTICLE: Undocumented U.S. Immigrants and COVID-19 AUTHORS: Kathleen R. Page, Maya Venkataramani, Chris Beyrer and Sarah Polk JOURNAL: N Engl J Med. 2020 Mar 27. doi:… Read More »Undocumented U.S. Immigrants and COVID-19
ARTICLE: Dual Versus Triple Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis AUTHORS: Safi U. Khan, Mohammed Osman, Muhammad U. Khan,… Read More »Dual Versus Triple Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
ARTICLE: Women Training in Cardiology and Its Subspecialties in the United States AUTHORS: Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, Samar Mahmood, Safi U. Khan, Kaneez Fatima, Faisal Khosa,… Read More »Women Training in Cardiology and Its Subspecialties in the United States
ARTICLE: Recent trends in the incidence and survival of Stage 1A Pancreatic Cancer: A Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results analysis AUTHORS: Amanda L Blackford, Marcia Irene Canto, Alison P Klein, Ralph H… Read More »Recent trends in the incidence and survival of Stage 1A Pancreatic Cancer: A Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results analysis
ARTICLE: Risk Factor Modification Reduces Atrial Fibrillation AUTHORS: Thomas M. Das, Rachit M. Vakil, Roger S. Blumenthal JOURNAL: Circulation. 2020 Mar 9. doi: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000000748. Atrial… Read More »Risk Factor Modification Reduces Atrial Fibrillation
ARTICLE: The Assimilation of International Medical Graduates Into the Cardiovascular Workforce AUTHORS: Arjun Kanwal, Garima Sharma and Elena Surkova JOURNAL: JACC. 2020 Mar. Volume 2, Issue 3 doi: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2020.01.018… Read More »The Assimilation of International Medical Graduates Into the Cardiovascular Workforce
ARTICLE: The Modern Epidemic of Syphilis AUTHORS: Khalil G. Ghanem, Sanjay Ram and Peter A. Rice JOURNAL: N Engl J Med. 2020 Feb 27;382(9):845-854. doi: 10.1056/NEJMra1901593.… Read More »The Modern Epidemic of Syphilis
ARTICLE: Management of patients with increased risk for familial pancreatic cancer: updated recommendations from the International Cancer of the Pancreas Screening (CAPS) Consortium AUTHORS: Michael… Read More »Management of patients with increased risk for familial pancreatic cancer: updated recommendations from the International Cancer of the Pancreas Screening (CAPS) Consortium