Ob/Gyn and Women's Health Perspective

• Preventing Future Osteoporotic Fragility Fractures   After surgery for fracture of her left hip, an active 72-year-old woman is evaluated by a multidisciplinary team of experts for osteoporosis and for prevention of a future fracture.
  Medscape, July 25, 2024
• Drug Combinations Improve Survival in Melanoma Dr Jeffrey Weber discusses oral melanoma abstracts presented at ASCO 2024.
  Medscape Oncology, July 25, 2024
• Know Your Options: Thyroidectomy for Graves Disease   Drs Kaniksha Desai, Tracy S. Tylee, and Quan-Yang Duh discuss thyroidectomy for the treatment of Graves disease.
  American Thyroid Association, July 24, 2024
• Recognizing the Signs: Diagnosing Early-Onset Alzheimer's A look at the latest clinical approaches for early detection in this often-misdiagnosed patient population.
  Medscape Neurology, July 24, 2024
• Childhood Cancer Survivors: What Happens Next?   Dr Maurie Markman discusses a recent analysis of health-related risk behaviors among childhood cancer survivors.
  Medscape Oncology, July 24, 2024
• Episode 3: Targeted Therapy in Endometrial Cancer   Drs Ursula A. Matulonis and Joyce F. Liu discuss new therapeutics for patients with endometrial cancer, including ADCs, immunotherapy, and drugs targeting replication stress.
  Medscape, July 24, 2024
• How the New Vitamin D Guidelines Will, and Won't, Change My Practice Dr Kenny Lin explains why he might recommend vitamin D supplements for some groups, but not necessarily for others.
  Medscape Family Medicine, July 24, 2024
• The Disturbing Sexual Trend With Real Health Consequences   Strangulation ("choking") during sex is on the rise among teens and young adults, and those being harmed are mostly women.
  Medscape Urology, July 23, 2024
• A Cash Giveaway to Improve Health   We can't just give cash to low-income folks instead of food to improve their health, can we? That's just what these researchers did.
  Medscape, July 22, 2024
• The New Report Cards: Your Patient's CGM Data   It's getting easier to get a CGM approved. But when the patient comes in with their cell phone app, how can you use the data to manage their diabetes?
  The Curbsiders, July 22, 2024
• Laboratory-Developed Meat: Ethicist Says It's Worth Pursuing   Ethicist Art Caplan discusses considerations for laboratory-developed meat.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, July 22, 2024
• How to Get Patients Over a Weight Loss Plateau   An obesity expert describes her approach to the frustrating yet inevitable plateau reached by most patients on their weight loss journey.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, July 22, 2024
• How to Manage Common Abdominal and Gastric Symptoms: Expert Pearls   Dr David Johnson provides tips and techniques for treating abdominal pain, gastroparesis, gas and bloating, and other common conditions.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, July 22, 2024
• Sleep and Thyroid Function: Addressing One Improves Both   Kaniksha Desai and Skand Shekhar discuss the interconnectedness between sleep and thyroid, including hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism.
  American Thyroid Association, July 18, 2024
• For Richer, for Poorer: Low-Carb Diets Work for All Incomes An endocrinologist has successfully treated low-income patients with diabetes using a low-carb diet; so why doesn't the ADA do more to promote this approach, asks Nina Teicholz, PhD.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, July 17, 2024
• Does This 'Stem Cell' Therapy Contain Any Actual Stem Cells?   Dr F. Perry Wilson explains why — at the moment — we have reason to be skeptical about stem cell therapies marketed for commonplace aches and pains.
  Medscape, July 16, 2024
• Vitamin D: Who Benefits From Supplements Now?   Dr JoAnn Manson highlights the subgroups of the population that may still need a vitamin D supplement, even if screening isn't recommended.
  Medscape Ob/Gyn, July 16, 2024
• Phototherapy for Psoriasis: When Is It the Right Choice?   Drs Tina Bhutani, Mona Shahriari, and Jason Hawkes discuss the use of phototherapy in the treatment of psoriasis as they work toward optimal outcomes in patient care.
  Medscape Dermatology, July 16, 2024
• Colorectal Cancer On the Rise in Young Adults   Prof David Kerr discusses the worrisome trend of increased colorectal cancer incidence in the younger population.
  Medscape Oncology, July 15, 2024
• Ethics of Sex, Romance Among Older Adults in Nursing Homes   Ethicist Art Caplan discusses the ethics of sex among older adults in long-term care facilities.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, July 15, 2024