Commentary
Commentary
Will New Obesity Drugs Make Bariatric Surgery Obsolete?
“Efficacy of drugs is measured in weeks or months, whereas efficacy of surgery is measured in decades of durability.”
Commentary
Hot Flashes: Do They Predict CVD and Dementia?
It’s important that we not alarm women about the associations seen in some of these studies because often they are not independent associations....
Opinion
‘Reform School’ for Pharmacy Benefit Managers: How Might Legislation Help Patients?
Dr. Madelaine A. Feldman writes how pending federal legislation targeting PBMs might affect patients’ access to medications and also delink drug...
Commentary
Stones, Bones, Groans, and Moans: Could This Be Primary Hyperparathyroidism?
The classic symptoms include osteoporosis and bone tumors. People can get nephrocalcinosis and kidney stones.
Commentary
Old, Frail Patients: Study More, Intervene Less?
The greatest challenge for the cardiologist of today is not a lack of treatment options, but whether we should use all options in older, frailer...
Commentary
ANA Testing: When to Tap the Brakes
There’s a high false-positive rate for an ANA test. For instance, cancers and viral infections can cause an ANA test to be positive, and certain...
Commentary
Diabetes Increases Injury Risk: A Troubling Trend
In older adults with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, the risk for falls is double that seen in older people without these conditions.
Commentary
GLP-1 RA Therapy for Alcohol Use Disorder?
Similar to what we see in obesity, these medications may work by affecting what we call reward processing, or the seeking for addictive drugs,...
Commentary
Depiction of Cancer in Movies: Not an Accurate Portrayal
“The point of this was not to tell Hollywood how to make their movies but to have the oncology community recognize that if their patients or the...
Commentary
Vacationing Doctors Intervene After Shark Attack
Two trauma doctors and other clinicians care for a teenage girl injured after a shark attack.
Commentary
Delayed Bleeding: The Silent Risk for Seniors
The way that it did change my care was to give good return precautions to patients, to make sure they have somebody with them to say, “Hey,...