Faculty Bibliography

ST segment elevations (an EKG change consistent with ongoing injury to the heart muscle) are classic signs of heart attacks, and the physician is right to call for acute coronary intervention (in which a catheter is threaded from an artery in the groin up to the tiny arteries that feed the heart), with a likely placement of a tiny stent. [...] Dr. Frederick Feit, director of the Cardiac Catheterization Lab at New York University Medical Center, says that the use of drug-coated stents during treatment for a heart attack is still controversial

Grey's Anatomy [Television Program] -- The doctors believe that the cement is leaching water from his body while exposing him to alkali, which burns the skin; that toxic chemicals released from the cement are being absorbed; and that the concrete formation is causing a compartment syndrome (compression of nerve, blood vessels and muscle within a closed space, leading to impaired blood flow, and muscle and nerve damage)

Weeds [Television Program] -- Having burned down her house, Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker) and her family travel to the Mexican border town of Ren Mar, Calif., where they visit Bubbie, the 95-year-old grandmother of Nancy's dead husband

Secret Life of the American Teenager [Television Program] -- The show is misleading about pregnancy tests -- home urine tests are just as effective as the urine tests available in the doctor's office, with a greater than 95% accuracy rate when used properly after a missed menstrual period. False positives on home pregnancy tests are generally not caused by strange diseases, as Amy's friends suggest, but rather by hormone-containing medications such as fertility treatments, which very few high school students are taking

Savages [Motion Picture] -- Lenny's physical problems -- weakness, slow movement, rigidity, tremors, mask-like face and shuffling gait -- make his diagnosis much more likely a Parkinsonian dementia such as dementia with Lewy bodies (abnormal proteins that accumulate inside nerve cells responsible for memory and movement) rather than Alzheimer's disease

Ugly Betty [Television Program] -- Fitzident and limben are fictitious chemicals, but dexedrine is a commonly used amphetamine that can cause rapid heart rate, sweating, dilated pupils, dry mouth and feelings of power and aggression similar to what Betty experiences

Breaking Bad [Television Program] -- [...] recent studies on lung cancer (most commonly adenocarcinoma) show a five-year survival rate of 15% to 40% with a combination of the latest chemotherapy and radiation therapy, says Dr. James L. Mulshine, associate provost for research at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago

Eye [Motion Picture] -- Repopulating these conjunctiva cells with adult stem cells could make the ultimate corneal transplant successful where it failed before, since the cornea now has more viable tissue to attach to, says Dr. John Hofbauer, a clinical professor of ophthalmology at UCLA's Jules Stein Eye Institute

[...] a survey released last month by National Public Radio, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health found that a majority of Americans are still confident in the safety of children's over-the-counter drugs, and 64 percent think they are safe for children younger than 2.

House [Television Program] -- Dr. Bernard Feigenbaum, assistant professor of allergy and immunology at New York University School of Medicine, says that a person can become allergic to any drug at any time even without a typical rash, but he adds that, anaphylactic shock almost always occurs within the first few hours after an exposure