Pulmonary Medicine Perspective

• Jul 26 2024 This Week in Cardiology   Health and income, high BP in the hospital, and more on subclinical AF and when to use anticoagulants are the topics John Mandrola, MD, discusses in this week’s podcast.
  theheart.org on Medscape, July 26, 2024
• Episode 6: Practicing Proactive Palliative Care in COPD Management   Join Drs Leah Witt and Anand Iyer as they discuss the benefits of partnering with your palliative care team for patients living with advanced COPD.
  Medscape, July 25, 2024
• Beta-Blockers: Safe for COPD? Are beta-blockers bad for patients with COPD? Decades of debate and clinical trials have not settled the issue.
  Medscape Critical Care, July 23, 2024
• S2 Episode 3: Understanding the Role of Circadian Rhythms in IPF   Dr Jeffrey Swigris and Isaac Kirubakaran Sundar discuss the complex role of circadian rhythms in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
  Medscape, 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
• ADA 2024 GLP-1 Guidance to Reduce Regurgitation and Aspiration Risk   Drs Akshay Jain and Girish Joshi discuss clinical considerations to keep in mind when someone on GLP-1 therapy is undergoing elective procedures.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, July 18, 2024
• Early Detection of MG May Lessen Symptom Severity Early detection of myasthenia gravis, along with timely treatment, could mitigate symptom severity and optimize outcomes, reports Dr Nicholas Silvestri.
  Medscape Neurology, July 12, 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
• How Facial Temperature Reveals Age and Disease Find out why Dr F. Perry Wilson says that the medical tricorder perhaps wasn't as fanciful as it seemed when it was used by Dr Beverly Crusher on "Star Trek."
  Medscape, July 02, 2024
• ASCO 2024 ASCO 2024: Advances in Targeted Therapy for Lung Cancer   Drs Xiuning Le, Sandip Patel, and Yi-Long Wu discuss exciting data reported out for targeted therapy, especially in lung cancer space, at ASCO 2024.
  Medscape Oncology, July 01, 2024
• Q&A: Comorbidities in Myasthenia Gravis Nicholas Silvestri, MD, reviews the main comorbidities seen in myasthenia gravis.
  Medscape Neurology, July 01, 2024
• Jun 28 2024 This Week in Cardiology   Screening echo, multivitamins, wasteful research, another PA sensor for HF, vascular closure devices, and GLP-1 marketing as science research are the topics John Mandrola, MD, discusses this week.
  theheart.org on Medscape, July 01, 2024
• Medscape Physician Assistant Career Satisfaction Report 2024 Despite overall career satisfaction among physician assistants, a minority express concerns about their relationship with doctors, patients, and administrators.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, June 28, 2024
• S2 Episode 1: Diagnosing and Treating Sleep Disorders in Cancer Survivors   Drs Ann H. Partridge and Eric S. Zhou discuss the importance of sleep for cancer survivors and how to diagnose and treat sleep disorders including medication and CBTI.
  Medscape, June 27, 2024
• Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Updates From ASCO 2024   Practice-changing studies in advanced non-small cell lung cancer presented at ASCO 2024 are reviewed by Dr Ticiana Leal, including the phase 3 LAURA and PALOMA-3 studies and a 5-year update of CROWN.
  Medscape, June 26, 2024
• Episode 5: Heart Attack of the Lung: COPD Exacerbations   Join Drs Leah Witt and Valerie Press as they discuss COPD exacerbations, treatment, triage, discharge planning, and hospital readmissions.
  Medscape, June 26, 2024
• ASCO 2024: Four Key Clinical Scenarios in Advanced NSCLC   Dr Tejas Patil highlights how pivotal data presented at ASCO will reshape treatment strategies for advanced non–small cell lung cancer.
  Medscape, June 25, 2024