June 2021 Medical News Summary
Community-Based Organizations Step Up to Confront HIV in Southern States; Restrictive Policies Threaten Efforts to Stop 2 West Virginia HIV Outbreaks; Cystic Fibrosis Affects People of All Colors, Not...
22 Juni 202118min
Lung Transplants for COVID-19—The Option of Last Resort
Lung transplantation has become an option of last resort for a small subset of patients with COVID-19-related acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) or pulmonary fibrosis. Ankit Bharat, MD, chief ...
17 Juni 202133min
May 2021 Medical News Summary
Researchers Tie Severe Immunosuppression to Chronic COVID-19 and Virus Variants; An Inside Look at a Post–COVID-19 Clinic; COVID-19 and the "Lost Year" for Smokers Trying to Quit Related Content: Re...
25 Maj 202125min
Whistleblower Pediatrician Discusses the Legacy of Flint, Michigan's Water Crisis
Michigan public officials' decision to change Flint's water supply in 2014 created widespread lead contamination in the city's drinking water. Pediatrician Mona Hanna-Attisha, MD, MPH, revealed the ta...
12 Maj 202135min
An Inside Look at a Post–COVID-19 Clinic
COVID-19 leaves some people with a troubling constellation of symptoms that has been known as long-haul COVID but now has a more formal name: postacute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC). Current...
5 Maj 202124min
Neurologist Faces His Alzheimer Diagnosis Determined to Lessen Stigma Surrounding the Disease
In this Medical News podcast, Rita Rubin interviews retired neurologist Daniel Gibbs, MD, about his efforts to lessen the stigma surrounding Alzheimer disease, which he was diagnosed with 5 years ago....
28 Apr 202121min
April 2021 Medical News Summary
How Sharing Clinical Notes Affects the Patient-Physician Relationship; Experts Discuss COVID-19—Variants and Vaccine Efficacy, Immunosuppressed Patients, and More; The Push for Timely Follow-up After ...
27 Apr 202134min
A Partnership With the Cherokee Nation Advances Medical Education on Tribal Land
In this Medical News article, William Pettit, DO, dean of the new Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine at the Cherokee Nation, discusses how the first US medical school on tribal ...
14 Apr 202122min
