Perspectives

• 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
• Room for Optimism: Treating Metastatic NSCLC: Ben   A leading thoracic oncologist shares the case of a young lung cancer patient whose lymph nodes yielded an oncogenic driver that led to effective therapy.
  Medscape TV, 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
• Information Blocking and Adolescent Confidentiality These regulations, although important, may impact the ability to offer confidentiality to adolescents seeking care for sensitive issues.
  Medscape Pediatrics, November 17, 2020
• SARS-CoV-2 Diagnostics, From Serology to Spit   Dr Paul Auwaerter gives an overview of the session on SARS-CoV-2 diagnostics from the Chasing the Sun event at IDWeek 2020.
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, November 16, 2020
• Vaccine Efficacy: A Biostatistician's Primer Patients will be clamoring for advice from their clinicians about coronavirus vaccines when they're rolled out. Natalie Dean provides a quick refresher on how to understand and interpret the data.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, November 16, 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
• Neuropolarization: Differences Contribute to Partisan Divide Drs Lorenzo Norris and Yuan Chang Leong discuss neural polarization and the ways individuals with different political attitudes interpret news and political information.
  Medscape Psychiatry, November 13, 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 Long Should Docs and Nurses With COVID Stay Home?   Dr Alok Patel discusses considerations for healthcare professionals who have been exposed to the coronavirus when deciding to return to work.
  Medscape Hospital Medicine, November 13, 2020
• New Visa Rule Will Harm Docs, Risk Lives During Pandemic A proposed rule change may result in thousands of physicians becoming unable to provide critically needed care to patients as the pandemic worsens.
  Medscape Med Students, November 12, 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
• Uncommon Malignancies: Managing Rare Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas: Working Up Waldenstrom’s   The oncologists discuss ways to distinguish WM from other low-grade lymphomas, as well as the role of observation prior to treatment.
  Medscape TV, November 12, 2020
• How Many Deaths Are an Acceptable Cost of Doing Business? Human beings have a remarkable capacity to adapt. But too much adaptation can be a killer.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, November 12, 2020
• A Seismic Shift in Colorectal Cancer Screening   Dr Mark Lewis discusses how the recent USPSTF recommendation to start colorectal cancer screening at age 45 years could affect physicians and patients alike.
  Medscape Oncology, November 12, 2020