Q&A

Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
10/14/2018
Now that hepatitis C is highly curable in the DAA era, a greater focus is shifting towards non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis. We discussed this further with Jagpreet...
10/14/2018
Skin Disorders
Skin Disorders
09/25/2018
A recent study that was awarded an honorable mention at the 2018 AAD Annual Meeting identified numerous healthcare and demographic disparities in hospital readmissions for skin disease. We spoke with lead...
09/25/2018
marijuana
marijuana
09/24/2018
Katrina Trivers, PhD, MSPH, from the CDC, answered our questions about her new study, which found that nearly 1 in 11 students in the United States had tried cannabis in e-cigarettes in 2016.
09/24/2018
Obesity
Obesity
09/16/2018
Considering pharmacotherapy for your patient with obesity? Here’s what you should know, according to Harold Bays, MD, who presented “Current and Future of Obesity Drug Therapies: Echoes of Today’s Metabolic...
09/16/2018
Heart failure
Heart failure
09/16/2018
“Primary care providers are increasingly called upon to recognize and treat heart failure early in their patients”, said Keith C. Ferdinand, MD, during his presentation at CRS 2018, “Update in the...
09/16/2018
major depression
major depression
09/10/2018
Daniel Blumberger, MD, MSc, from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Canada shares the ins and outs of intermittent theta burst stimulation—the shortened brain stimulation protocol newly approved...
09/10/2018
suicide
suicide
09/06/2018
Traumatic brain injuries of all degrees of severity are likely associated with an elevated suicide risk vs no TBI, according to a large-scale Danish cohort study. Consultant360 discussed the study’s key...
09/06/2018
Risk Management
Risk Management
09/06/2018
Dr Megan Clarke from the National Cancer Institute explains the role of postmenopausal bleeding in the early detection of endometrial cancer.
09/06/2018
Anaphylaxis
Anaphylaxis
08/26/2018
Ruchi S Gupta, MD, MPH, Christopher M Warren, PhD(c), and Justin Zaslavsky answer our questions about barriers to epinephrine use and strategies to increase daily carriage and use of auto-injectors in...
08/26/2018
surgery
surgery
08/25/2018
Aladdin H. Shadyab, PhD, MS, MPH, CPH, from the University of California, San Diego, answers our questions about his recently published study about how physical activity impacts patients who have undergone...
08/25/2018