Pediatrics Perspective

• 'No Excuses': Training for the Olympics with Type 1 Diabetes   Drs Michael Riddell and Anne Peters speak with Gary C. Hall, Jr, about competing and winning 10 Olympic medals with type 1 diabetes.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, 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
• 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
• Mirror, Mirror: How Digital Twins Can Rescue Healthcare The key to overcoming complexity is simplicity.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, July 23, 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
• 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
• Infographic: Issues for Doctors With Medicare and Medicaid A Medscape survey revealed some difficulties that physicians experience working with the Medicare and Medicaid government health insurance programs.
  Medscape, July 19, 2024
• Primary Care Internal Medicine Is Dead Dr Debra L. Glasser mourns the loss of the specialty she loved for more than four decades.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, July 17, 2024
• Which GI Side Effects Should GLP-1 Prescribers Worry About? Dr David Johnson identifies the gastrointestinal adverse events most closely associated with these popular medications, based on his review of the latest data.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, July 17, 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
• 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
• New Mid-Year Vaccine Recommendations From ACIP Important changes to vaccination recommendations for COVID, flu, RSV, and pneumococcal disease -- and what's behind the changes -- are summarized here.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, July 11, 2024
• Be Alert for Conjunctivitis: New Human Cases of H5N1 Bird Flu   Clinicians should be aware of the symptoms of bird flu seen in the first few human cases.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, July 09, 2024
• Infographic: PAs Feel Content With Jobs Despite Challenges A Medscape survey found that physician assistants (PAs) generally expressed high satisfaction with their careers despite various challenges.
  Medscape, July 09, 2024
• Infographic: Incentives That Steer Doctors to Rural Areas A Medscape slideshow gives details of state programs that pay off medical school debt if physicians commit to practice in rural areas.
  Medscape, July 09, 2024
• Gender-Affirming Care for Children and Adolescents For the first time in the history of the Supreme Court, it is willing to hear a legal challenge regarding gender-affirming care for minors.
  MDedge, July 09, 2024
• Hypoglycemia Risk Limits Use of Once-Weekly Insulin in T1D   Dr Anne Peters discusses the risk for hypoglycemia with the use of once-weekly insulin icodec in patients with type 1 diabetes.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, July 03, 2024
• Family Physician or Physician in the Family? Clinicians must learn to navigate differences of opinion with a family member's physician without overstepping or breeding mistrust.
  Medscape Family Medicine, July 02, 2024