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• When to Prescribe Semaglutide? Semaglutide produces significant weight loss in most people with obesity. When should it be prescribed, and what are the pitfalls?
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, September 29, 2023
• Pediatric Brain Tumor: A Diagnosis You Don't Want to Miss   An expert shares tips with The Cribsiders on what to do if you suspect a brain tumor in a child, and what words to use (and not use) with families.
  The Cribsiders, September 28, 2023
• Recent Studies in Parkinson's, Headache, Stroke, and Obesity   Hans-Christoph Diener, MD, PhD, discusses recent studies in neurology and internal medicine.
  Medscape Neurology, September 27, 2023
• Long COVID: When Doctors Become Patients About 60% of doctors with long COVID have fatigue when pursuing their daily activities, and only 31% currently have a full-time job.
  Medscape Family Medicine, September 25, 2023
• Fighting Disparities in Palliative and End-of-Life Care Health disparities such as access, quality of care, and health outcomes among minority groups exist in delivery and receipt of care within the healthcare system.
  MDedge, September 22, 2023
• Universal Anxiety Screening Recommendation Is a Good Start A very good thing happened this summer for patients with anxiety and the psychiatrists, psychologists, and other mental health professionals who provide treatment for them.
  MDedge, September 21, 2023
• Episode 4: New Metastatic Castrate-Resistant Prostate Cancer Therapies   Drs Sandhya Srinivas and Oliver Sartor discuss the VISION study, new therapies for patients with metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer, and PSMA biomarker-based imaging.
  Medscape, September 21, 2023
• 'Nopioids' for Chronic Pain: Only When Nothing Else Works   Dr Neha Pathak interviews Dr Daniel Clauw about how opioids fit into the treatment armamentarium when managing chronic pain.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, September 20, 2023
• Don't Miss the Dx: Waldenström Macroglobulinemia Are you familiar with the presentation, differential diagnosis, and workup for Waldenström macroglobulinemia? Dr Maurie Markman provides a brief guide.
  Medscape, September 19, 2023
• Intravascular Imaging in PCI: Time for a Guideline Update?   Interventional cardiologists Robert Byrne and Rasha Al-Lamee discuss data presented at the 2023 ESC congress on intravascular vs angiography-guided percutaneous coronary intervention.
  theheart.org on Medscape, September 13, 2023
• ERS 2023 – Navigating Chronic Cough in Primary Care "When it comes to chronic cough, general practitioners often feel lost," said an expert at the European Respiratory Society Congress held in Milan, Italy.
  Medscape Medical News, September 12, 2023
• Is AF Ablation the Fifth Pillar in Heart Failure Care?   John Mandrola interviews CASTLE-Htx investigators, Christian Sohns, and Philipp Sommer about the role of ablation in patients with AF and end stage heart failure.
  theheart.org on Medscape, September 08, 2023
• Left-Digit Bias and Other Random Acts of Medicine   A new book reveals how chance can change the course of a person's health, life, and death.
  Medscape, September 07, 2023
• Episode 6: RSV in Rural Communities: Lessons From Appalachia   Rates of RSV are rising in rural communities. How are rural healthcare providers responding? Join Drs Forest Arnold and Brittanie West as they discuss.
  Medscape, September 07, 2023
• How to Interpret a Urine Drug Test   Addiction medicine physicians discuss the different types of urine drug tests, false positives, invalid tests, and how to communicate results to patients.
  The Curbsiders, September 06, 2023
• Journal Summary: Vitiligo Journal Summaries provide a quick review of recent journal articles with current or near-term clinical significance. Catch up on key research on vitiligo from the past year.
  Medscape Dermatology, September 06, 2023
• Episode 5: Liver-Directed Therapy for Colorectal Cancer   How do you know if your patient will benefit from liver-directed therapy for colorectal cancer? Join experts Drs Benjamin Schlechter and Ammar Sarwar as they discuss.
  Medscape, September 06, 2023
• Diet and Brain: From Processed Foods to the Farmers Market   Kathrin LaFaver interviews fellow neurologist Madhureeta Achari on the nutritional deficiencies she checks for and why she invites her patients to the farmers market.
  Medscape Neurology, August 31, 2023
• Testing Kids for Celiac Disease: Who, When, How   The Cribsiders talk about having a low threshold for testing a child for celiac disease, and which tests to order first.
  The Cribsiders, August 29, 2023
• Managing Patients With Chronic Pain in a Post-opioid World   In the first of a four-part video series, Neha Pathak, MD, and Dan Clauw, MD, discuss referrals for patients with chronic pain.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, August 23, 2023
• Episode 4: Myasthenia Gravis: Who Really Benefits From Thymectomy?   Drs Nicholas Silvestri and Gil Wolfe get right to the point about when and why thymectomy may be considered as an evidence-based option for treatment of myasthenia gravis.
  Medscape, August 23, 2023