Faculty Bibliography

[...] my office mate, pulmonary expert Frank Adams, uses a subscription-based program with great success -- and a steep price tag. [...] the discussion of President Obama's plan to modernize this country's medical records -- a piece of his $787 billion stimulus plan -- has focused too much on the labor pangs and not enough on the baby

United States of Tara [Television Program] -- Is her description of different rooms in her head and 'something clicking' when she goes from one personality to the next believable? -- The reality Dissociative identity disorder (formerly known as multiple personality disorder) can result when a child with an unstable identity is subject to severe emotional trauma over an extended period of time, says Dr. Richard P. Kluft, a clinical professor of psychiatry at Temple University and a psychiatric consultant to 'The United States of Tara.'

Private Practice [Television Program] -- A CT scan of the brain shows that the mass has doubled in size in just a few weeks and that there are two additional lesions in the upper center of the brain (cortex). Because of the rapid growth and spread, the doctors suspect an infection rather than a tumor, and Archer recalls that he was in Zihuatanejo, Mexico, six months earlier and could have picked up a parasite

The tragic death of teen Jett Travolta was a prime example. Media reports that he might have been neglected were unsubstantiated -- as well as cruel. At the same time, the family's statements linking the child's untimely death with the rare inflammatory condition of the arteries known as Kawasaki's disease were also misleading. That didn't entirely jive with the medical facts. Pancreatic cancer is the fourth-deadliest form of cancer, with only a five-per-cent, five-year survival rate. It's almost never curable without an extensive operation (known as a Wipple) that [Patrick Swayze] reportedly never had. Apple's Steve Jobs just took a leave of absence from his company. But he reassured his investors by proclaiming publicly that his progressive weight loss wasn't due to his pancreatic tumour recurring but was instead 'a hormone imbalance that has been 'robbing' me of the proteins my body needs to be healthy.'

Nip/Tuck [Television Program] -- The disease is 100 times less common in men than in women, but as with women, mammography is a useful tool 'to distinguish benign from malignant tumors in men,' says Dr. Daniel Roses, director of surgical oncology at the NYU Langone Medical Center. Needle biopsy is usually the most reliable way of making the diagnosis of breast cancer, or distinguishing it from a benign swelling (gynecomastia) or lymph node

The source of the salmonella has been traced to industrial peanut butter and peanut butter paste made by Peanut Corporation of America, which was sold to other manufacturers and added to cookies and crackers, ice cream and dog treats.

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

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

Boston Legal [Television Program] -- Can a patient live for years like this? -- The reality 'Alzheimer's disease causes characteristic metabolic patterns of deficits which can be detected by PET scans,' says Dr. P. Murali Doraiswamy, chief of biological psychiatry at Duke University

Eli Stone [Television Program] -- Cooper wants to begin a clinical trial using medical marijuana as a cure for his son, and he is petitioning the Drug Enforcement Administration to allow him to grow his own marijuana for medical purposes (this is legal in California but not under federal law)