Medical News Podcast

How does physician empathy impact chronic pain outcomes? Find out about this and more in today's PeerDirect Medical News Podcast.

Can remote monitoring identify early signs of Alzheimer's disease? Find out about this and more in today's PeerDirect Medical News Podcast.

What is the link between artificial nighttime outdoor light, air pollution, and stroke? Find out about this and more in today's PeerDirect Medical News Podcast.

Alicia Morgans, MD, MPH, a genitourinary oncologist and the Medical Director of the Survivorship Program at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses the intricate coordination required for the care of cancer survivors, including strategies for structuring programs that support patients following their cancer treatment. Additionally, she addresses the role of a survivorship clinic in facilitating the transition of care from oncology to primary care. This transition takes into consideration the patients' physical, mental, and sexual health.

Is brain damage detectable on MRI in patients with Havana Syndrome? Find out about this and more in today's PeerDirect Medical News Podcast.

Drs. Naushira Pandya and Hady Masri share their insights into the unique risks faced by the geriatric population when it comes to RSV, in Part 2 of this Specialist Spotlight.

How common is delta 8-THC use among adolescents? Find out about this and more in today's PeerDirect Medical News Podcast.

Dr. Raagini Jawa from Boston Medical Center and the University of Pittsburgh discusses topics in office-based addiction treatment and harm reduction for indivuals with substance use disorders in this edition of the Specialist Spotlight.

Drs. Rosenberg and Morgans share their insights into some late-breaker abstracts presented at the 2024 ASCO GU symposium in San Francisco. The first is a subgroup analysis from EV‑302 with enfortumab vedotin and pembrolizumab, and the other is AMBASSADOR, which looks at adjuvant pembrolizumab in locally advanced and muscle invasive urothelial cancer.

Drs. Naushira Pandya and Hady Masri share their insights into the unique risks faced by the geriatric population when it comes to RSV.

Are generics for fingolimod as effective as the non-generic formulation? Find out about this and more in today's PV Roundup podcast.

Alison Buttenheim, PhD from PennNursing joins the podcast to talk about the behavioral aspects of infectious disease prevention and vaccine acceptance.

Drs. Rosenberg and Morgans share their insights into 2 late‑breaking abstracts presented at ESMO 2023 on the first‑line treatment of metastatic urothelial carcinoma: EV‑302 on the combination of enfortumab vedotin and pembrolizumab and CheckMate 901 on the combination of nivolumab and gemcitabine/cisplatin.

Drs. Kenneth Chinsky and Angela R. Branche share their insights into the Respiratory Syncytial Virus Prefusion F Protein Vaccine in Older Adults study, for which Dr. Chinsky was part of the study group and principal investigator at his clinic in Erie, PA. They discuss the findings and what they mean for HCPs who see and care for older adults who are at risk for RSV.

Annual breast cancer screening starting at age 40 provides the greatest benefit to women with the least amount of risk, according to a study published in Radiology, a study of patients with anti-citrullinated protein antibodies and subclinical inflammatory changes in joints, published in The Lancet, has shown that 6-month treatment with abatacept can improve inflammation and decrease the risk of rheumatoid arthritis, and persistent false positive COVID-19 rapid antigen tests are rare, but possible.

Offering telehealth options for medication abortion may help safely expand access to abortion care, e-cigarettes could be a useful smoking cessation tool, according to a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine, and a study published in JAMA Network Open has shown that individualized venous thromboembolism risk evaluation is warranted for patients undergoing major cancer surgery.

This second part of a specialist spotlight with Drs. Dawn Velligan and Sanjai Rao, continue their discussion of the three symptom domains of schizophrenia: positive, negative, and cognitive impairment.

Enhanced mental health screening should be a priority among COVID-19 survivors, according to a study published in BMJ Open, a study published in eBioMedicine has shown that interventions targeting mood outcomes may help manage inflammatory bowel disease, and meeting or exceeding physical activity guidelines might help lessen the intensity of lingering pain in cancer survivors, according to a study published in Cancer.

Drs. Dawn Velligan and Sanjai Rao share their insights into the three symptom domains of schizophrenia: positive, negative, and cognitive impairment. They discuss how the full spectrum of symptoms, particularly cognitive impairment, are not adequately recognized.

Researchers have uncovered evidence that amyloid-beta can be transmitted from person to person via cadaver-derived pituitary growth hormone, which may lead to the development of Alzheimer’s disease, a study published in eBioMedicine has shown that young-onset colon cancer has a distinct microbial signature that may be leveraged to prevent, diagnose, and treat the disease, and mounting evidence suggests that endemic blastomycosis, a rare but potentially fatal fungal disease, is more common than previously believed.