Faculty Bibliography

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

At a time when technological advances in medicine and bioscience threaten to be diluted and obscured under piles of mandatory authorizations prior to their use, nevertheless, personalized healthcare remains theoretically within reach. The FDA has just approved Luminex's xTag Respiratory Virus Panel that can detect 12 different kinds of viruses. These viruses are responsible for more that 85% of the viral infections that humans suffer from. Overuse of antibiotics is an unnecessary expense and may breed resistant bacteria, which is a long-term healthcare expense

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

[...] 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.

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

Bucket List [Motion Picture] -- Einhorn's pioneering treatment of testicular cancer in the 1970s increased survival rates from 10% to more than 95%, and he led the medical team that treated and cured cyclist Lance Armstrong. Armstrong was in his 20s when diagnosed and suffered from a less aggressive germ cell tumor (an embryonal cell carcinoma or yolk sac tumor) that had spread to his brain and was treated with surgery and chemotherapy

Diving Bell and the Butterfly [Motion Picture] -- Dr. David S. Liebeskind, associate neurology director at the UCLA Stroke Center points out that the most common life-threatening complications are medical and include pneumonia, urinary and wound infections, occurring mostly because of immobility and flaccidity

Awake [Motion Picture] -- According to Peter Sebel, vice chairman of anesthesiology at Emory University in Atlanta and author of a definitive study on the subject published in 2004 in the journal Anesthesia & Analgesia, the film is correct about how common the condition of anesthesia awareness is -- it occurs in about 0.14% of cases. Recognition should be easier when a patient is also in pain, Pregler says, because there are usually changes in vital signs (such as increased heart rate and blood pressure as well as sweating, pupil dilation and tear-formation) that would be noticed by any competent anesthesiologist.

Unit: Five Brothers [Television Program] -- The clinical diagnosis of a 'dropped lung' can be made without a stethoscope, by observing distended veins in the neck, difficulty breathing and absence of the movement of breathing on one side of the chest, says Cmdr. D. J. Green, an assistant professor of trauma surgery at Keck School of Medicine of USC and Naval Trauma Training Center.

Nip/Tuck [Television Program] -- Dr. Christian Troy (Julian McMahon) and Dr. Sean McNamara (Dylan Walsh) have moved their cosmetic plastic surgery practice from Miami to Beverly Hills.