Faculty Bibliography

Since this new virus contains some parts of old flu viruses, it appears that most of those who are infected are exhibiting some immunity to it. [...] it's encouraging that we're dealing with a swine flu rather than a bird flu.\n

ER [Television Program] -- 'ER' NBC, Thursday, March 26, 10 p.m.; Episode: 'I Feel Good' The premise At a winter reunion of a summer camp for children who've had open heart surgery, camp veteran Vera befriends a first-time camper, Emily, whose parents prefer that she avoid exertion in the wake of several surgeries and finally a heart transplant for an underdeveloped heart

The dropout rate is less at major medical centers such as New York University's Langone Medical Center where I work, or Mount Sinai Medical Center, because larger physician networks have more leverage when choosing health plans

Fringe [Television Program] -- [...] examination of the child reveals that his intestines lack Lactobacillus acidophilus bacteria, which aid in digestion, and that he has low blood levels of vitamin D -- both of which are attributed to his underground existence. Sinai School of Medicine in New York and an expert in post-traumatic stress disorder, has taken care of a patient who as a child famously survived for months in the sewers of Lvov, Poland, during World War II eating rodents and insects

Three Rivers [Television Program] -- A cardiac angiogram has revealed that he has normal coronary arteries. Because Scott has not used drugs in six months, Dr. Andy Yablonski (Alex O'Loughlin), the head transplant surgeon, is able to persuade a transplant committee to ask the United Network for Organ Sharing to put Scott on the list for heart transplant

Seven Pounds [Motion Picture] -- 'A lobe of the liver is about 2 pounds, but the kidney and a lobe of the lung are only a quarter-pound each, and the heart is only a pound,' says Dr. Lloyd Ratner, director of renal and pancreatic transplantation at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. In the real world, potential bone marrow donors are HLA (human leukocyte antigen) typed by DNA analysis before being entered into a national registry

An article published in the New England Journal of Medicine in the spring had suggested that older people were more likely to have partial immunity to the H1N1 strain causing the current pandemic, thought to be because of past exposure to a related flu virus that was circulating before 1957. [...] a study published in the British journal Lancet in September reminded me that influenza could be a trigger for a heart attack, especially in a susceptible patient like him.

'Til Death [Television Program] -- Three recent studies in South Africa, Kenya and Uganda, published in PLoS Medicine and the Lancet, showed a dramatic decrease in the heterosexual transmission of HIV among circumcised African men, but it is unclear if this benefit applies to heterosexual men in other countries

Revici's 'guided chemotherapy' was based on a urine analysis followed by a secret formula made of some combination of alcohols, caffeine, zinc, lithium, iron, selenium, magnesium, sulfur and fatty acids. Tumors may look the same from outside, but they can arise from variations in many different genes, making them more or less responsive to drug A, drug B or drug C. For example, a study from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, published this month in the New England Journal of Medicine, reported a genetic pattern in liver tissue that correlates with survival and lack of recurrence of liver tumors

Mentalist [Television Program] -- Joshua Greene, assistant professor of psychology at Harvard University, has used functional MRI scans of the brain to assess which areas are involved when moral and ethical dilemmas are considered