Lancet Menopause Series Wants to Change How Society Views ‘The Change’
Researchers warned against the “over-medicalization” of menopause in a four-paper series in The Lancet, and argued for a fresh approach that goes beyond the treatment of specific symptoms. The series focused on four areas for changing how we view menopause — ranging from healthcare providers adopting an “empowerment model” to support women; optimizing health after […]
Clinical Challenges: Test Your Knowledge of Breast Cancer
A MedPage Today Clinical Challenges series on breast cancer reviewed locoregional therapy for older patients, the management of invasive lobular cancer (ILC), and the treatment of advanced hormone receptor (HR)-positive disease post-CDK4/6 inhibition. The following is a three-question quiz to test your knowledge on each aspect of the series. Correct answers and explanations appear after […]
Clinical Challenges: Test Your Knowledge of Axial Spondyloarthritis
A MedPage Today Clinical Challenges series on axial spondyloarthritis reviewed the disease’s features and pathogenesis; difficulties in diagnosis and monitoring; and current options for therapy. The following is a three-question quiz to test your knowledge on each aspect of the series. Nancy Walsh earned a BA in English literature from Salve Regina College in Newport, […]
Clinical Challenges: Test Your Knowledge on NASH/MASH
A recent MedPage Today “Clinical Challenges” series on metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH; formerly nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, or NASH) tackled the need to raise patient/physician awareness of the increasing prevalence of the liver disease, lifestyle approaches to managing affected patients of all ages, and promising treatments in the pipeline. The following is a three-question quiz to test […]
Epinephrine Was First an Asthma Treatment
This is the first in an occasional series on the origin of commonly used medicines. When epinephrine was first discovered at the turn of the 20th century, it was essentially a drug without a disease. In 1894, two British researchers — physician George Oliver and physiologist Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer — discovered that the extract of […]
Guidance Focuses on Mental Health Symptoms in Long COVID
An interdisciplinary group of physicians has released the latest guidance in its series on long COVID, this time focusing on mental health symptoms. The guidance, published by the American Academy of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation (AAPM&R), discusses how to assess mental health systems in patients with post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC), or long COVID, […]
Clinical Challenges: Test Your Knowledge of HIV
A MedPage Today Clinical Challenges series on HIV looked at long-acting antiretroviral therapy (ART), HIV care during the COVID pandemic, and efforts to destigmatize HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). The following is a three-question quiz to test your knowledge on each aspect of the series. Correct answers and explanations appear after completing the quiz. Please enable […]
‘Bridgerton’ Star Says Netflix And Shondaland Ghosted Her After ‘Psychotic Breaks’
LOADINGERROR LOADING “Bridgerton” star Ruby Barker said the makers of the period drama series ignored her after she suffered two serious mental health episodes. (Watch the video below.) “Not a single person from Netflix, not a single person from Shondaland, since I have had two psychotic breaks from that show, have even contacted me or […]
Nina Westbrook Has The Perfect Affirmation For Black Women
“I Run This” is a weekly interview series that highlights Black women and femmes who do dope shit in entertainment and culture while creating visibility, access and empowerment for those who look like them. Nina Westbroook is on a mission. Some may know her as Russell Westbrook’s wife and college sweetheart, but Westbrook has been […]
Can a Fungus Cause a COVID-Style Pandemic?
The television series “The Last of Us” describes a human pandemic with a mind controlling cordyceps fungus. When asked whether a COVID-19 pandemic with a pathogenic fungus is possible, my answer has generally been some variation of “yes, but it’s unlikely.” Cordyceps fungi turn ants into zombies, establishing the precedent that this group of organisms […]