Pulmonary Medicine Perspective

• Simple Text Reminders Help Increase Vaccine Uptake   Dr Maurie Markman discusses the importance of implementation research to address pragmatic questions.
  Medscape Oncology, January 09, 2025
• Making Sense of Mixed Messages on Drinking   Medscape’s Neha Pathak, MD, and George Koob, PhD, Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, break down the latest guidance on alcohol intake.
  Medscape Family Medicine, January 07, 2025
• The Year’s Hottest Topics in Pediatric Medicine As we head into 2025, Dr William Basco comments on 2024’s most important news for pediatric clinicians.
  Medscape Pediatrics, January 07, 2025
• Consequences of Discontinuing Long-Term Drugs in HFrEF Currently patients with HF are prescribed many drugs for their lifetime. This paper reviews strategies to assess whether efficacy persists and the potential consequences of discontinuation.
  Journal of the American College of Cardiology, January 03, 2025
• Medscape 2050: The Future of Medicine As Medscape marks its 30th anniversary, we are collaborating with physicians, scientists, and futurists to envision the future of medicine in the year 2050.
  Medscape, January 01, 2025
• Progression on Systemic Therapy: Additional Considerations   Dr Mark Kris continues a discussion about considerations related to the many faces of progression on systemic therapy.
  Medscape Oncology, December 26, 2024
• Is Supplemental Oxygen Worth the Cost? Oxygen therapy saves lives, but does it improve quality of life? Dr Holley explores the balance of benefits, burdens, and cost in modern oxygen prescribing.
  Medscape Critical Care, December 24, 2024
• Diener’s Top 12 Neurology Stories in 2024   Prof Christoph Diener picks his top neurology publications in 2024 covering Alzheimer’s, stroke, Parkinson’s, migraine, glioblastoma, long COVID, and the GLP-1 drugs.
  Medscape Neurology, December 20, 2024
• Heart Failure Drug Development Over the Eras A summary of current efforts of the Heart Failure Collaboratory that highlights important concepts in the contemporary landscape of HF drug development.
  JACC: Heart Failure, December 20, 2024
• “I Had No Words”: The Patient Gifts Doctors Never Forget   These doctors were surprised and moved by very personal gifts given to them by grateful patients. Enjoy some good vibes this holiday season.
  Medscape, December 19, 2024
• Alpha-Gal Syndrome: 5 Things to Know A tick bite — primarily a long star tick — can cause an allergy to red meat and other products containing alpha-gal.
  CDC Expert Commentary, December 18, 2024
• Managing Return-to-Work Barriers for People With Long COVID Researchers assess what people with long COVID must deal with when trying to return to work, and how physicians can help.
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, December 16, 2024
• Does Marijuana Harm Your Lungs? The Unclear Truth It makes sense that smoking marijuana would increase the risk for lung cancer and emphysema, right? Dr Holley separates the evidence from the noise.
  Medscape Critical Care, December 13, 2024
• Good and Bad: Medscape Nurse Career Satisfaction Report 2024 Most nurses say they are happy with their career choice and would make it again. They also list their biggest job rewards and headaches, and recount experiences with abuse.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, December 12, 2024
• Mandrola’s Top 10 Stories in 2024 Cardiologist John Mandrola reviews his top 10 stories in 2024 covering beta-blockers, GLP-1s, finerenone, Impella, pulsed field ablation, tricuspid intervention, and a potential renaming of STEMI.
  theheart.org on Medscape, December 11, 2024
• Medscape Female Physician Career Tracks Report 2024 From mentorship to leadership, female physicians navigate unique challenges as they build thriving medical careers.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, December 11, 2024
• UK Doctors Sexual Harassment Report 2024 Doctors reported numerous types of harassment or assault, such as undesired texts/emails from coworkers, comments about their body, unwanted physical contact, sexual propositions, and rape.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, December 11, 2024
• Freezing the Pain: A New Way to Treat Rib Fractures   Drs Robert Glatter, Sergey Motov, and Gary Schwartz discuss a novel way to treat pain related to conditions such as rib fractures and burns, and the implications for patients and healthcare systems.
  Medscape Emergency Medicine, December 10, 2024
• H5N1 Avian Influenza Spreads Across North America Experts have warned that as H5N1 avian influenza spreads globally, the threat of it posing a pandemic risk to humans is increasing.
  Medscape Infectious Diseases, December 09, 2024
• Communicating Benefits of Prenatal Vaccination to Patients Vaccination coverage in pregnant people remains suboptimal. As the virus season continues, learn how to communicate the importance of prenatal vaccination to pregnant patients in your care.
  CDC Expert Commentary, December 06, 2024