CDC Expert Commentary

This special series of commentaries, interviews, and slideshows is part of a collaboration between CDC and Medscape. This content is designed to deliver CDC's authoritative guidance directly to Medscape's physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals.

• Does Your Patient Have Latent TB Infection? Test Your Knowledge Learn how to identify and treat latent tuberculosis infection, thereby preventing TB disease and accelerating progress toward elimination.
  CDC Expert Commentary, February 2021
• How to Report COVID Vaccine-Related Adverse Events As Americans start receiving their first COVID-19 vaccines, additional data on potential adverse events are needed in real time. Here's how you can help.
  CDC Expert Commentary, January 2021
• 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 2020
• The COVID Complication You Might Miss An emerging complication of both severe influenza and COVID-19 may not be known to many healthcare providers. It can lead to deadly results.
  CDC Expert Commentary, November 2020
• Flu Vaccine 2020-2021 Recommendations Influenza immunization will be more critical than ever this fall. Read this summary from the CDC.
  CDC Expert Commentary, October 2020
• PrEP During COVID-19: 5 Things to Know Accessing care at the places where PrEP is prescribed is harder to do during a pandemic. Here are five things to know about PrEP in the era of COVID-19.
  CDC Expert Commentary, September 2020
• Latent TB Infection: New Guidelines and Preferred Treatments More than 80% of tuberculosis disease cases in the US result from untreated latent TB infection. Here are five things to know about treating latent TB infection.
  CDC Expert Commentary, April 2020
• It's Tick Season: 5 Things to Know About Lyme Disease Tests Prepare for tick season by reviewing these five things to know about Lyme disease testing.
  CDC Expert Commentary, April 2020
• Helping Patients Quit Tobacco: 5 Things to Know Tobacco use remains the leading preventable cause of disease and death in the United States. Here are five things clinicians should know to effectively help patients quit.
  CDC Expert Commentary, March 2020
• Protecting Youth From e-Cigs: 5 Things to Know If you have not identified kids in your own practice who are using e-cigarettes, you may not be asking the right questions.
  CDC Expert Commentary, March 2020
• MTHFR and Birth Defects: Does Type of Folate Matter? How do MTHFR genotypes affect blood folate levels and the risk for birth defects? Here are the answers to some commonly asked questions.
  CDC Expert Commentary, February 2020
• Updated Pneumococcal Vaccine Recommendations for Older Adults   What do the new PCV13 recommendations mean, and how do you implement them in your practice? Here's what you need to know.
  CDC Expert Commentary, January 2020
• A 'Healthy' Baby With Developmental Delay: Could It Be Zika? Infants with congenital Zika virus exposure may appear healthy at birth. How would you monitor such patients? Test your knowledge with these three cases.
  CDC Expert Commentary, January 2020
• New Strategies to Prevent MRSA Infections in Your Hospital A community hospital's rate of MRSA bloodstream infections is much higher than the national rate. Would you know what to do to reverse this trend?
  CDC Expert Commentary, December 2019
• A Teen With Cough: Could This Be Vaping Related? Challenge yourself with this case that illustrates the evaluation and treatment of e-cigarette, or vaping, product use-associated lung injury (EVALI). Would you know what to do?
  CDC Expert Commentary, December 2019

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