Influenza Perspective

• S2 Episode 1: How to Care for Older Adults With Type 2 Diabetes   Drs Carol Wysham and Medha N. Munshi discuss the unique challenges and strategies when treating older adults with type 2 diabetes.
  Medscape, February 01, 2023
• White House COVID Chief on Why Paxlovid Is Underused   Giving Paxlovid to an older adult with COVID is a clinical no-brainer. So why is there so much Paxlovid prescribing phobia?
  Medscape, January 31, 2023
• Managing Respiratory Symptoms in the 'Tripledemic' Era Readers weighed in on Dr Charles Vega's approach to a patient whose symptoms could be from COVID-19, flu, or RSV.
  Medscape Family Medicine, January 30, 2023
• 75 Years: A Look Back on Methotrexate's Fascinating History Dr David Warmflash recounts how the meandering path of early research into chemotherapy for hematologic malignancies later led to methotrexate's importance for immune-mediated inflammatory diseases.
  Medscape Rheumatology, January 25, 2023
• Three Wishes: The Changes Health Professionals Want In the spirit of suspended disbelief, we asked physicians and other contributors what their three wishes would be for their patients, practice/hospital, and health systems.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, January 18, 2023
• Practice-Changing Pediatric Updates: The Year's Best Dr William Basco brings you the important stories, updated guidelines, and new evidence you may have missed during 2022.
  Medscape Pediatrics, January 13, 2023
• Nursing Year in Review: Short Staffing, Strikes, and Suicides On the frontlines of a continuing pandemic with new variants and emerging viruses, nurses faced trauma, legal battles, and strains on safety and well-being. An experienced nurse looks forward and back.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, January 12, 2023
• ID Consult: Measles "This 2-year-old has a fever, cough, red eyes, and an impressive rash. I've personally never seen a case of measles, but I'm worried given that this child has never received the MMR vaccine."
  MDedge, January 11, 2023
• COPD: New, Simplified Treatment Guidelines   Dr Neil Skolnik reviews the new GOLD guidelines for management of COPD.
  Medscape Family Medicine, January 06, 2023
• To Stop COVID, We Must Clean Up Our Air   Two-way masking is pretty effective, but it's not sustainable. Environmental engineer and viral transmission expert Dr Linsey Marr reveals how we can fight COVID by tackling our contaminated air.
  Medscape, December 22, 2022
• Neurologic Symptoms in People With Long COVID   Dr Andrew Wilner and Dr Igor Koralnik discuss the range of neurologic symptoms that can persist after acute COVID-19.
  Medscape Neurology, December 22, 2022
• Immunity Debt and the Tripledemic Michael Pichichero, MD, discusses how surges in RSV, the flu, and COVID variants can be blamed on immunity debt built up over 2 years of sheltering in place.
  MDedge, December 21, 2022
• How to Distinguish Among COVID, Flu, and RSV An obese woman with type-2 diabetes presents with fever, cough, myalgias, and fatigue. What is the most important first step in her care?
  Medscape Family Medicine, December 15, 2022
• Medically Speaking, 2022 Was the Best Year Yet for Children Despite the headlines, we need to remember that children born today are better off than ever before.
  Medscape Pediatrics, December 05, 2022
• 5 Things to Know About This Early Flu Season In the past 2 years there was relatively little flu activity, but this time the US is experiencing an early and potentially harsh flu season.
  CDC Expert Commentary, November 28, 2022
• Sick Call 'We reached the high water mark for physicians calling out sick from my department this year. That's saying a lot. Our docs, like most, don't call out sick,' Dr Jeffrey Benabio writes in his column.
  MDedge, November 23, 2022
• A Medically Tailored Holiday Meal Providers of food as medicine to patients with chronic diseases across the United States share their favorite healthy recipes, which can be downloaded and printed.
  Medscape Family Medicine, November 21, 2022
• Burned Out? Maybe It's Time for a Medical Sabbatical What if a medical sabbatical could offer physicians both recovery and rejuvenation?
  Medscape Blogs, November 14, 2022
• Adult RSV: Q&A With the CDC's Michael Melgar, MD RSV is a common cause of respiratory disease in adults, but it can be difficult to differentiate from COVID-19 and influenza by symptoms alone.
  CDC Expert Commentary, November 10, 2022
• Right and Wrong in Medicine: LIfe, Death, and Wrenching Choices Physicians reveal how they would respond to difficult decisions and scenarios involving medical care and personal treatment of patients, sharing both their insight and turmoil.
  Medscape Features Slideshows, November 02, 2022