Pharmacists Perspective

• Is Red Meat Bad for Your Heart?   Drs Kopecky and Lopez-Jimenez discuss the research on health effects of eating processed and unprocessed meat in the wake of a controversial guideline.
  Mayo Clinic, February 24, 2021
• FDA Provides the Latest COVID Updates   WebMD Chief Medical Officer John Whyte talks with Dr Janet Woodcock about the latest COVID-19 updates from the US Food and Drug Administration.
  WebMD, February 24, 2021
• What the NBA's Collaboration With Yale Reveals About COVID   The NBA was looking for help with COVID-19 surveillance. They found it in Nathan Grubaugh's team at Yale. Grubaugh talks with Eric Topol and Abraham Verghese about that collaboration and more.
  Medscape, February 23, 2021
• Move to Single-Dose COVID Vaccine Is Worth a Shot   Switching to a single-dose COVID vaccine program is a reasonable option while vaccine supply is limited, says F. Perry Wilson. Here's a look at the data.
  Medscape, February 23, 2021
• What Drives an Exceptional Response to Cancer Treatment?   Dr David Kerr implores us to cherish the 'unusual patients,' as they may be key to better understanding those cancers that exhibit exceptional responses to treatment.
  Medscape Oncology, February 23, 2021
• Fired for Good Judgment a Sign of Physicians' Lost Respect The firing of a physician who made use of soon-to-expire COVID vaccine doses rather than flush them epitomizes the loss of physician autonomy and respect, warns Melissa Walton-Shirley.
  theheart.org on Medscape, February 23, 2021
• The Vanguard of HIV Care: Don't Forget This Screening HIV-positive patients are living longer than ever, thanks to antiretroviral medications. But this means increased rates of HPV-associated anal cancer.
  Medscape HIV/AIDS, February 22, 2021
• Why I've Changed My Approach to Mammography in Older Women Kenny Lin considers the likelihood of benefit, considering life expectancy, before ordering a mammogram for screening or surveillance in older women.
  Georgetown University Family Medicine, February 22, 2021
• Is Taking BP Meds at Night Really Better?   A controversial trial suggests that chronotherapy is key for hypertension management; cardiologist Christopher Labos takes a closer look.
  theheart.org on Medscape, February 22, 2021
• Emergency Contraception With the Progestin IUD   An NIH-funded study examines whether progestin-releasing intrauterine devices (IUDs) are effective when used as emergency contraception.
  Medscape Ob/Gyn, February 22, 2021
• What Is #NephMadness and How Do I Play? Forget basketball -- March 1 marks #NephMadness. The annual battle of the brackets is a fun way to learn about hot nephrology topics. Timothy Yau, MD, from the AJKD blog gives the inside scoop.
  Medscape Nephrology, February 22, 2021
• 'I Think I'm Transgender': A Clinician's Guide to Next Steps What do you do when a patient discloses that they think they are transgender? Here are the first steps to take.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, February 19, 2021
• Key Advances in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer From WCLC 2020   The latest data from the IASLC 2020 World Conference on Lung Cancer include novel approaches in patients with uncommon mutations and a screening program in never-smokers, reviewed by Prof. Tony Mok.
  Medscape, February 19, 2021
• Cheat Code: Cracking Cancer's Evolution to Help Defeat It Cancer cells evolved to outsmart our bodies, but researchers are turning the tables on this disease via adaptive treatment strategies.
  Medscape Oncology, February 19, 2021
• Here's the COVID Exit Door -- Will We Walk Through It?   WebMD Chief Medical Officer John Whyte talks with Dr Yaneer Bar-Yam about a COVID-19 elimination strategy that would require a strict 5-week lockdown to create no-virus areas.
  WebMD, February 18, 2021
• Surgeons Can Change. The Pandemic Made It Happen Faster NorthShore Health System in Chicago canceled 3400 elective surgeries in March 2020. Here' s what happened next.
  Medscape General Surgery, February 18, 2021
• 7 Key Changes: 2021 Child and Adolescent Immunization Schedules Dr Bill Basco highlights key changes to the 2021 schedules, plus other important pediatric vaccine news.
  Medscape Pediatrics, February 17, 2021
• COVID-19 Has Wiped Out Cancer Research Fundraising   'The impact on fundamental translational clinical research will be enormous and will echo forward for many years,' Dr Kerr laments.
  Medscape Oncology, February 17, 2021
• Do Zinc and Vitamin C Reduce COVID Symptoms?   A randomized trial looked at the ability of zinc and vitamin C to shorten symptoms of COVID-19 in outpatients. Dr F. Perry Wilson breaks down the data.
  Medscape, February 17, 2021
• The Impact of Pandemic Burnout on Physicians   WebMD Chief Medical Officer John Whyte talks with Dr Peter Yellowlees about physician burnout during the pandemic and how doctors can better cope.
  WebMD, February 17, 2021