Perspectives

• Best & Worst Places to Practice 2023 Check out our 2023 choices for the best and worst communities, based on such factors as income, malpractice climate, lifestyle, and health indicators.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, May 18, 2023
• No Expiration Date for Sex! Clinicians frequently overlook sexual health in their older patients. That should change.
  Medscape Family Medicine, May 18, 2023
• ACC HFpEF Guidance: What to Know   Ileana Piña, MD, MPH, discusses the Expert Consensus Decision Pathway from ACC focused on the definition, diagnosis, and treatment of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction.
  theheart.org on Medscape, May 18, 2023
• Can't Stop the Hyperbole About Diet Interventions The news proclaiming the success of the UK's diet-based protocol in weight mitigation in people with type 2 diabetes overexaggerates the findings. Yoni Freedhoff, MD, expounds on why it's misleading.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, May 18, 2023
• Risk for Mpox Resurgence Rises With the return of summer festivals, public health experts are renewing calls for mpox vaccination and prevention efforts.
  CDC Expert Commentary, May 18, 2023
• Episode 5: First 72 Hours: Inpatient Care for Patients With UC   Drs Sunanda Kane and Peter D. Higgins discuss the first 72 hours of inpatient UC care. What are best practices for diet and painkillers? When should your patient see a surgeon? Tune in to find out.
  Medscape, May 18, 2023
• HSS, Arthritis Foundation Spotlight Neglected Hip OA Research Convenors of a recent hip osteoarthritis (OA) conference discuss current state-of-the-art practices in hip OA and identify clinical research gaps to advance clinical understanding and treatment.
  Hospital for Special Surgery, May 18, 2023
• Age-Related Macular Degeneration Highlights From ARVO 2023   From ARVO 2023, Dr Neena Haider reports on treatment options for patients with wet age-related macular degeneration, including aflibercept and newer TKI and gene therapies.
  Medscape, May 17, 2023
• Human Health in Space: One Small Step for Manikin-kind As NASA plans a return to the Moon, Dr Walton-Shirley explores how space travel affects the body , medical emergencies, and what we will learn from Commander Moonikin Campos and the Artemis mission.
  theheart.org on Medscape, May 17, 2023
• How to Stay Healthy at 17,500 mph: A Space Doc's Insight   Physician astronaut Frank Rubio on staying healthy in space and what NASA's research may bring medicine, in an interview with terrestrial cardiologist Melissa Walton-Shirley.
  theheart.org on Medscape, May 17, 2023
• Top 5 Movement Disorders Highlights From AAN 2023   Kathrin LaFaver discusses the movement disorders presentations that piqued her interest at the 2023 American Academy of Neurology meeting with fellow neurologist Indu Subramanian.
  Medscape Neurology, May 17, 2023
• Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation During Pregnancy? Where does TMS fit into the algorithm for treating depression during pregnancy? Where is it appropriate to be thinking about TMS in pregnancy, and should it perhaps be deferred at this moment?
  MDedge, May 17, 2023
• What to Expect in the New Concussion Guidelines   Andrew N. Wilner, MD, and Shae Datta, MD, discuss recent developments in sports neurology.
  Medscape Neurology, May 17, 2023
• S2 Episode 5: Immunotherapy and Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer   Drs Jacob Sands and Stephen V. Liu discuss immunotherapy, biomarkers, next-generation sequencing, shared decision-making, and improving outcomes in the treatment of non–small cell lung cancer.
  Medscape, May 17, 2023
• Has Emergency Medicine Residency Lost Its Appeal for Good?   Drs Glatter, McNamara, and Ho discuss the high number of unmatched emergency medicine positions, what's behind it, and whether it can be fixed.
  Medscape Emergency Medicine, May 16, 2023
• Is Parkinson's a Military Base's Toxic Legacy?   Exposure to groundwater contaminated with TCE could explain higher rates of Parkinson's disease in those who spent time at Camp Lejeune.
  Medscape, May 16, 2023
• Emotional Eating Isn't All Emotional Often clinicians dismiss emotional eating and its impact on patients, but it's common and leads to weight gain. Dr Sylvia Gonsahn-Bollie offers tips to help patients overcome emotional eating.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, May 16, 2023
• Key Takeaways From the AHA Statement on CAM in HF Drs Marty Tam and Christopher Giuliano discuss safety concerns and the appropriatness of adding complementary therapies to guideline-directed treatments.
  American College of Cardiology & Medscape , May 16, 2023
• Nonpharmacologic Therapies for T2D: 5 Things to Know Diabetes expert Kellie Rodriguez shares effective strategies to help improve the outcomes for patients.
  Medscape Diabetes & Endocrinology, May 16, 2023
• Episode 3: Treating Postinfection and Post-COVID IBS   How do you identify postinfection irritable bowel syndrome? How long will it last and how do you treat it? Join expert physicians Lin Chang and Madhu Grover as they discuss.
  Medscape, May 16, 2023