The Impact of COPD on Survival in Patients With NSCLC

This course reviews a study that investigated the impact of preexisting chronic obstructive pulmona...

Osteoporosis Treatments and Overall Mortality

This course discusses a study that assessed the correlation between treatments for osteoporosis and...

Invasive Vs Urinary Antigen Test-Confirmed Community-Acquired Pneumonia

Review the findings of a study that aimed to compare the clinical characteristics and outcomes of ...

Improving Transitions of Care

A transitional care intervention program appears to have achieved the goals of improving patient o...

Addressing Reported Penicillin Allergies

Kimberly Blumenthal, MD, MSc, discusses her study "Tackling Inpatient Penicillin Allergies: Assessi...

Updated Physical Activity Guidelines: A Call to Action to Doctors

This course reviews key recommendations of the Department of Health and Human Services’ 2018 Physi...

Managing Measles

Zubin Damania, MD, discusses how to recognize & manage measles in this course.

Outcomes of Early & Mid-Adulthood Weight Change

Study findings indicate that moderate weight gain from early to middle adulthood in both men and wo...

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in Overweight & Obese Women

Discussed herein are the feasibility and cardiometabolic effects of mindfulness-based stress reduct...

Talking to Teens About Vaccination

A recent survey suggests that although the vast majority of teenagers and their parents believe it...

Cannabis Hyperemesis Syndrome

Zubin Damania, MD, discusses how to recognize & manage cannabis hyperemesis syndrome in this pas...

Enhancing Adherence With ART

Phone-delivered support counseling may help patients with HIV achieve clinically meaningful improve...

Conference Highlights: ASM Microbe 2019

This course discusses the key findings of five studies presented at the 2019 joint annual meeting o...

Hepatitis and HIV Among Patients With Newly Diagnosed Cancer

This course reviews the findings of a study that sought to estimate the prevalence of HBV, HCV, and...

IDSA Guideline Update on Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobials

This course reviews key recommendations from the most recent update to the Infectious Diseases Soc...

Conference Highlights: CROI 2019

This course discusses the key findings of six studies presented at the 2019 annual Conference on Re...

Associations With Kaposi Sarcoma in Patients With HIV

This course covers the findings of a study that sought to determine when CD4 cell count is most pre...

Conference Highlights: IDWeek 2018

New research was presented at ID Week 2018, the combined annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases ...

Conference Highlights: AIDS 2018

New research was presented at AIDS 2018, the 22nd International AIDS Conference, from July 23-37 in...

Guidance on Healthcare-Associated Ventriculitis & Meningitis

The Infectious Diseases Society of America has developed a guideline to help clinicians caring for ...

Conference Highlights: CROI 2018

New research was presented at CROI 2018, the annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic In...

Invasive Vs Urinary Antigen Test-Confirmed CAP

For a study published, researchers compared the clinical characteristics and outcomes of pneumococc...

The State of Bacterial Vaginosis

Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is a prevalent infection among women in the United States. However, awaren...

Conference Highlights: IDWeek 2019

This course discusses the key findings of five studies presented at the 2019 joint annual meeting o...

Identifying Allergic Drug Reactions

Study results suggest that graded challenges can be performed safely in two steps with the addition...

The Merits of the MERIT Protocol

Researchers have devised a modified, accelerated allergen immunotherapy (AIT) protocol (MERIT) tha...

Racial Disparities, Airway Inflammation & Asthma

Study results indicate that African-American patients with asthma appear to exhibit greater eosino...

Chronic Rhinosinusitis & QOL

This course discusses a study that sought to determine improvement of which symptoms of chronic rhi...

Peanut Immunotherapy Products: Estimating Health and Economic Benefits

This course discusses a study that evaluated critical inputs associated with the cost-effectiveness...

Asthma, Allergic Disease, Smoke Exposure, and RA Risk

This course discusses a study that sought to determine the association of rheumatoid arthritis with ...

Analyzing the State of Food Allergies in US Adults

This course discusses a study that collected nationally representative estimates of the distributio...

Conference Highlights: ACAAI 2019

This course discusses the key findings of five studies presented at the 2019 Annual Scientific Meet...

Mom’s Role to Protect From Childhood Allergic Sensitization

This course discusses a study that explored whether maternal allergen-specific immunoglobulin G cou...

The Effects of Nonnutritive Sweeteners on Cardiometabolic Health

Observational data appear to suggest that routine intake of nonnutritive sweeteners may be associat...

Statin Adherence and Mortality in Octogenarians

This course discusses the findings of a study that sought to assess patterns of statin adherence in...

Conference Highlights: HFSA 2019

This course discusses the key findings of five studies presented at the 23rd Annual Scientific Meet...

E-Cigarette Use and Myocardial Infarction

This course reviews the findings of a study that used the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Heal...

Patient Reported Reasons for Declining or Discontinuing Statins

This course reviews the findings of a study that sought to better understand the extent and causes ...

Blood Pressure, Cerebrovascular Disease & Alzheimer’s Disease

This course describes the findings of a study that examined the relationship of average systolic and...

Follow-Up & Drug Adherence After Acute Myocardial Infarction copy 3

Describe the findings of a study that examined the relationship of average systolic and diastolic ...

Conference Highlights: ACC.19

This course discusses the key findings of six studies presented at the 2019 annual American College...

Conference Highlights: AHA 2018

This course discusses the key findings of 6 studies presented at the American Heart Association 201...

Robotically Assisted PCI for Complex CAD

Researchers discuss their study that sought to identify the safety and feasibility of robotic PCI f...

Conference Highlights: HFSA 2018

New research was presented at HFSA 2018, the Heart Failure Society of America Annual Scientific Mee...

Cigarette Use and CHD & Stroke Risk

Researchers have combined the results of previous studies to produce a single reliable evidence base...

Conference Highlights: Hypertension 2018

New research was presented at Hypertension 2018, the Joint Hypertension 2018 Scientific Sessions of...

Predicting Survival in Patients With Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

This course discusses a study that compared an update to the Registry to Evaluate Early and Long-Te...

Assessing Appropriate Use of Vascular Access Devices

The Michigan Appropriateness Guide to Intravenous Catheters has been developed to help clinicians a...

Early Goal-Directed Therapy for Septic Shock

The pooled results of three randomized trials indicate no overall benefit from early goal-directed ...

Antibiotic Therapy for Severe CAP in the ICU

Researchers have assessed the impact antibiotic therapy on short (hospital) and long-term (6 mont...

Hospital Volume and Sepsis Mortality

Study leaders discuss whether the odds of death for immunosuppressed patients with sepsis vary acco...

Physician Empathy Matters in the Pediatric ICU

This course discusses a study that evaluated empathetic statements from physicians during family car...

Conference Highlights: SCCM 2019

This course discusses the key findings of five studies presented at the Society of Critical Care Me...

Psoriasis & Cardiovascular Events

With inflammation at the center of its pathophysiology, it is not surprising that psoriasis is asso...

Psoriasis & Comorbidity Development in Children

A study has found that children with psoriasis are higher risk than those without it to develop co...

Trends in Merkel Cell Carcinoma

Study results suggest that the incidence of Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) appears to be increasing d...

Psoriasis & Comorbidity Development in Children

This course discusses the risk of elevated lipid levels, hypertension, metabolic syndrome, polycyst...

Conference Highlights: ENDO 2019

This course discusses the key findings of five studies presented at the 2019 annual meeting of the ...

Bariatric Surgery & Macrovascular Events in People With Severe Obesity & Type 2 Diabetes

This course discusses the findings of a study that estimated the cumulative probability of incident...

The Toxic Metabolic Effects of Stress

Zubin Damania, MD, and Ronesh Sinha, MD, discuss the relationship between stress and metabolic illn...

Emergency Department Care for Older Adults With Cancer

New research advocates for emergency departments, or EDs, to develop systems that will reduce unnec...

A Look at Unrecognized Cardiovascular Emergencies

This course reviews the findings of a study that sought to develop tools to measure diagnostic erro...

Safe Pediatric Medication Administration in the ED

This course reviews approaches for improving pediatric medication dispensing and administration in ...

Psychiatric-Based Pediatric ED Visits: Addressing Inadequate Evaluation & Treatment

This course discusses a study that examined psychiatric ED visits among US youth and young adults i...

Conference Highlights: CCC 2019

This course discusses the key findings of five studies presented at the 2019 Crohn’s & Colit...

Colorectal Cancer Screening & Cost Effectiveness

This course discusses a study that sought to estimate the cost effectiveness and national effects of...

Conference Highlights: SABCS 2017

New research was presented at SABCS 2017, the 40th annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, from...

Alternative Medicine & Survival Outcomes in Cancer

Cancer patients who initially chose alternative medicine (AM) rather than conventional therapies f...

Women & Minorities in Cancer Trials: A Long-Term Look

African Americans, Hispanics, and women appear less likely to be enrolled in cancer clinical trials...

Gender & Tolerability to Immunotherapy for Metastatic Melanoma

As immunotherapy moves to first-line cancer therapy, it is important to understand the long-term co...

Conference Highlights: SABCS 2018

New research was presented at SABCS 2018, the annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, from Dece...

Advancing Personalized, Precision Breast Cancer Treatment

This course discusses novel approaches to the use of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with brea...

Advancing Personalized, Precision Breast Cancer Treatment

This course discusses the latest advances in neoadjuvant chemotherapy for the treatment of breast c...

Conference Highlights: AACR 2019

This course discusses the key findings of five studies presented at the 2019 American Association f...

Examining CAM Disclosure in Patients with Cancer & Survivors

This course discusses rates of patients with cancer and cancer survivors using complementary and al...

Renal-Replacement Therapy in Patients With AKI & Sepsis

This course discusses a study that sought to determine if mortality could be reduced with early ini...

Conference Highlights: AES 2018

New research was presented at AES 2018, the American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting, from November...

Organic Solvents & Multiple Sclerosis Susceptibility

This course reviews the findings of a study that investigated the influence of exposure to organic ...

Conference Highlights: AAN 2019

This course discusses the key findings of five studies presented at the 2019 American Academy of Ne...

Food Allergies & Disease Activity in Multiple Sclerosis

This course discusses a study that sought to clarify the possible association between allergy and t...

A Closer Look at Sleep Disorders in Patients With Migraine

This course describes a study that sought to better elucidate the association of sleep apnea and sl...

Follow-Up & Drug Adherence After Acute Myocardial Infarction copy 2

The Truth About Home Birth

Zubin Damania, MD, compares home birth with hospital delivery with Blair Duddy, MD, in this password...

Curbing Long-term Opioid Use: The Case for Early Physical Therapy

This course discusses the findings of study that sought to determine the association between early ...

Medications for Opioid Use Disorder: Addressing Barriers

This course reviews the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s 2019 consensus...

Addressing Metabolic Syndrome in Children

While there is currently no consensus regarding which of several definitions of metabolic syndrome...

Immediate, At-Home Therapy for Children With Autism

This course discusses a study for which researchers developed and assessed a machine learning-assis...

Mental Health Neglect Among Physicians

Researchers conducted an anonymous, 24-question survey that asked physician mothers representing al...

Substituting Prescription Medications With Cannabis

Review the findings of a study that sought to better understand the prevalence of patients who eli...

Depression & Lupus: Is There a Connection?

This course reviews the findings of a study that evaluated whether there is an association between ...

The Mental Health Crisis Among Teens

This course discusses the current mental health crisis among teens in the United States, based on t...

Conference Highlights: CHEST 2017

New research was presented at CHEST 2017, the annual International Scientific Assembly of the Ameri...

Capnography Monitoring Reduces Respiratory Compromise During Procedural Sedation

A meta-analysis of 13 randomized controlled trials shows clear and consistent evidence of a decreas...

A Novel Approach to Maintaining Inhaler Technique

Can a novel intervention effectively identify whether hospitalized patients with asthma or COPD wou...

Conference Highlights: CHEST 2018

New research was presented at CHEST 2018, The Annual International Scientific Assembly of the Amer...

Pediatric Asthma Medication Readiness in the Home

This course reviews the findings of a study that sought to assess asthma medication readiness among ...

Conference Highlights: ATS 2019

This course discusses the key findings of five studies presented at the 2019 annual American Thorac...

Menopause & Rheumatoid Arthritis-Associated Functional Decline

Women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who enter menopause experienced a worsening in the speed and ...

Psych Disorders & Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Diagnosis in Youth

New research supports a role for psychiatric assessment and resources for youth newly diagnosed wit...

Trends & Patterns in Arthritis Prevalence

Over a 15-year period, nearly one-quarter of American adults reported having some type of arthriti...

Conference Highlights: EULAR 2018

New research was presented at EULAR 2018, the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology of the Europ...

Characterizing the Burden of Axial Spondyloarthritis

Axial spondyloarthritis is an inflammatory condition that significantly impairs quality of life. B...

Conference Highlights: ASBMR 2018

New research and recommendations were presented at ASBMR 2018, the American Society for Bone and Mi...

Examining Exercise Counseling for Adults With Arthritis

Healthcare practitioners (HCPs) are increasingly providing exercise counseling to their patients w...

Assessing the Link Between Knee OA, Obesity, and Sarcopenia

This course discusses the findings of a study that tested the hypothesis that if obesity increases ...

Autoimmune Conditions & Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes

This course reviews a causal mediation analysis that sought to quantify the mediated effects of pre...