Perspectives

• Air Supply: Targeting Eosinophils in Severe Asthma   Leading pulmonologists discuss how the identification of eosinophilic subtypes has led to improved asthma management and development of new therapies for patients with severe asthma.
  Medscape TV, May 06, 2021
• The Risk of Avoidance If we can't convince our vaccine-hesitant population to step forward for their shots, the US may slide back into dangerous instability. Let's see what the last year and a half has taught us.
  Medscape Pediatrics, May 06, 2021
• Tragic Consequences of Ignorance for Everyone A 19-month-old baby was found unresponsive in a crib at her day-care center. She was resuscitated by the daycare provider but is now blind, has seizures, and no longer walks or talks.
  Medscape Pediatrics, May 06, 2021
• After Hundreds of Interviews, Here's John Whyte's View of COVID   Our problem with vaccines is that we talk about people instead of talking with people and listening to their perspectives.
  Medscape, May 05, 2021
• To Fight Anti-Asian Hate, We Must Talk About It Dr Krysti Lan Chi Vo on why when it comes to racism and bigotry, words matter.
  Medscape Psychiatry, May 05, 2021
• The Power of Independent Data Monitoring Committees Is Diminishing   Dr Kathy Miller sees the power of IDMCs eroding, and warns that this will lead to a loss of confidence in the safety and reliability of new treatments.
  Medscape Oncology, May 05, 2021
• COVID and False Beliefs: How Social Media Exploits Cognitive Bias   Dr F. Perry Wilson discusses four main cognitive biases that social media exploits to lead people away from what is true.
  Medscape, May 05, 2021
• Expanding Lung Cancer Screening: New Guidelines   Screening only 15% of patients at risk just isn't enough.
  Medscape Family Medicine, May 05, 2021
• New Physician Moms Need More Resources and Less Guilt   Returning to practice after maternity leave prompted Michelle O'Donoghue to advocate for new moms in the healthcare workplace.
  theheart.org on Medscape, May 04, 2021
• Kickbacks and the Trouble They Cause Don't accept money in return for your orders, referrals, or prescriptions.
  Medscape, May 03, 2021
• Identifying and Treating ITP: Maintaining Stability   Doctors discuss the range of therapeutic options in ITP and the factors and guidelines that inform treatment decisions for an individual patient.
  Medscape TV, May 03, 2021
• Apr 30 2021 This Week in Cardiology   COVID-19 and global vaccinations, AF screening, conduction-system pacing, FDA ban on menthol tobacco, and a heartfelt essay are the topics John Mandrola, MD, discusses in this week’s podcast.
  theheart.org on Medscape, April 30, 2021
• Ensuring Health and Safety as We Return to the Workplace   WebMD's Chief Medical Officer, John Whyte, MD, speaks with Robert Quigley, MD, SVP & Global Medical Director, International SOS, about businesses reopening and how employers can help ensure health and safety in the workplace.
  WebMD, April 30, 2021
• Can One Person 'Force' Another to Have a Child?   A celebrity couple divorced, and the ex-husband wants to use the frozen embryos to have a child -- against his ex-wife's will. Can he force her to be a co-parent to a child she doesn't want to create?
  Medscape Business of Medicine, April 30, 2021
• Three More Things We Do for No Reason in Pediatrics   The Cribsiders share their favorite easy-to-implement pearls on CAP, cellulitis, and constipation in kids.
  The Cribsiders, April 30, 2021
• A New, Potentially Safer Birth Control Pill Estetrol, a plant-based estrogen, may have less impact on coagulation markers than current OCs.
  Medscape Ob/Gyn, April 30, 2021
• The Year of Women In Neurology After attending this year's American Academy of Neurology Annual Meeting -- virtually of course -- Dr Kathrin LaFaver noticed an unprecedented female presence in her field.
  Medscape Neurology, April 29, 2021
• A New Keto Diet Book's Simple Message: It's the Insulin Nutrition science is built on faulty logic, but one investigative journalist is setting the record straight.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, April 29, 2021
• America's Forgotten History of Supervised Opioid Injection Facilities that would allow people to openly use opioids are igniting controversy today, but were once widespread.
  Undark, April 29, 2021
• Why Number Needed to Treat Can Be Misleading for Vaccines A statistician explains why the NNT concept is misleading when applied blindly to the vaccine trials.
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, April 29, 2021