Pharmacists Perspective

• Monitoring MBC Treatment Response: 5 Things to Know Although some patients with advanced breast cancer are living longer, a better understanding of treatment response and disease progression is necessary.
  Medscape Oncology, November 23, 2020
• CDC Doc Addresses Today's Pandemic and the Next A CDC physician's experience battling antibiotic resistance in a COVID-19 world.
  CDC Expert Commentary, November 23, 2020
• Nov 20 2020 This Week in Cardiology   COVID-19 vaccines and virtual AHA presentations on statins and the nocebo effect, high dose omega-3s, and AF ablation are the topics John Mandrola, MD, discusses on this week’s podcast.
  theheart.org on Medscape, November 20, 2020
• SCORED and FIDELIO-DKD: Time for Cardiologists to Help, Not Hurt, the Kidney   Nephrologist Jennie Lin and cardiologist Jane Wilcox discuss the results of SCORED and FIDELIO-DKD, presented at the AHA meeting. Can these drugs help the specialties work together to protect the kidneys?
  theheart.org on Medscape, November 20, 2020
• Liver Cancer Rates Are Rising; So Is Optimism Around Its Treatment Dr Nancy Reau shares the promising data leading her to believe that the trends around liver cancer can soon be reversed.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, November 20, 2020
• Breakthroughs in Crohn's Disease From ACG 2020 Virtual   Key studies on Crohn's disease from the ACG 2020 virtual meeting include the longer-term efficacy of drug therapy, the impact of combination treatment, and factors affecting surgical outcomes.
  Medscape, November 18, 2020
• SAMSON Trial Makes Its Case to Cut Statin Side Effects   Lead author James Howard discusses the 'clever' N-of-1 SAMSON trial, designed to answer the age-old question of whether statin adverse effects are truly drug related.
  theheart.org on Medscape, November 18, 2020
• Key Studies in Ulcerative Colitis From ACG 2020 Virtual   Highlights in ulcerative colitis from the ACG 2020 virtual meeting include the OCTAVE tofacitinib trial program, the long-term and comparative efficacy of vedolizumab, and long-term colectomy trends.
  Medscape, November 18, 2020
• Cancer Care During COVID: It's Been a Mixed Experience   Professor David Kerr discusses his experiences delivering cancer care during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  Medscape Oncology, November 18, 2020
• Why Not Try Melatonin, Zinc, Vit C? COVID-19 and Pascal's Wager   Should patients be free to try relatively low-risk therapies for COVID-19 if they lack evidence of benefit?
  Medscape, November 17, 2020
• Vanquishing Hepatitis C: A Remarkable Success Story A look back at one of the singular achievements in medical research of the past 25 years, and what improvements are still to come.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, November 17, 2020
• Medication Adherence Challenges and Helpers Many things contribute to the problem of poor adherence, but people often just simply forget.
  Medscape Ob/Gyn, November 17, 2020
• AHA 2020 EARLY-AF and STOP AF Put Electrophysiology at a Crossroads Seemingly positive data on earlier use of catheter ablation in patients with atrial fibrillation concerns some electrophysiologists.
  theheart.org on Medscape, November 17, 2020
• Anaphylaxis in Kids: Clinical Pearls From The Cribsiders   The Cribsiders discuss common presentations of anaphylaxis in kids and the role of epinephrine, epinephrine, epinephrine!
  The Cribsiders, November 16, 2020
• AHA 2020 SAMSON Answers the Statin Side Effect Question A nifty trial presented at the American Heart Association meeting could help patients with statin side effects restart the drugs.
  theheart.org on Medscape, November 15, 2020
• Life, Death, and Painful Dilemmas: Ethics 2020 Medscape looked at how physician ethics have changed in the past decade. More than 5000 physicians told us how they feel about the critical issues they have to deal with and the choices they make.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, November 13, 2020
• Nov 13 2020 This Week in Cardiology   COVID19 vaccines, thrombolysis in stroke, industry payments to doctors, and the upcoming AHA are topics covered by John Mandrola, MD, in this week’s podcast.
  theheart.org on Medscape, November 13, 2020
• Breast Cancer and Hormone Therapy: What Do the New Data Mean?   A large British study takes another look at the question of the link between hormone replacement therapy and breast cancer.
  Medscape Ob/Gyn, November 13, 2020
• How the COVID Pandemic May End: Lessons From the 1918 Flu   WebMD Chief Medical Officer John Whyte talks with Dr Howard Markel about how the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic compares to the COVID-19 pandemic and what lessons we can learn from history.
  WebMD, November 12, 2020
• Maintaining Multiple Sclerosis Care With Virtual Visits   Dr Stephen Krieger provides tips for monitoring patients, buoying their spirits, and keeping them healthy when in-office visits aren't an option.
  Medscape Neurology, November 10, 2020