Hepatitis B Perspective

• Why I Recommend Hepatitis B Vaccination to All My Patients   New age-based hepatitis B vaccine recommendations and available vaccine products are reviewed by Dr Sandra Fryhofer.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, May 03, 2022
• Episode 3: Antiretroviral Therapy, Maintenance, and Switching   Drs Michael Saag and Constance Benson discuss antiretroviral therapy, maintenance, and switching.
  Medscape, April 06, 2022
• ACG Offers Guidelines for Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure A conversation with the lead author behind the recently published recommendations on how to manage this major cause of mortality in patients with chronic liver disease.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, March 07, 2022
• ACIP 2022 Child/Teen Immunization Schedule: What's New? Dr William Basco outlines key changes in the 2022 ACIP child/adolescent immunization schedule and offers important reminders about pediatric vaccination.
  Medscape Pediatrics, February 23, 2022
• Adult Vaccines 2022: Who Needs What, and When?   Dr Sandra Fryhofer hits the highlights of the 2022 adult immunization schedule, just released by ACIP.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, February 17, 2022
• Organ Transplantation: Unvaccinated Need Not Apply Outrage over the denial of transplant organs to the unvaccinated is an opportunity to educate people on the complexities of organ allocation, writes Melissa Walton-Shirley, channeling her inner Ted Lasso.
  theheart.org on Medscape, February 10, 2022
• HCV Screening in Pregnancy: Casualties in the Quest for Elimination A hepatologist and an obstetrician debate the value of new recommendations to expand HCV screening to all pregnant women.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, November 22, 2021
• AASLD 2021 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from AASLD 2021
  Medscape Gastroenterology, November 15, 2021
• ILC 2021 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from ILC 2021
  Medscape Gastroenterology, June 23, 2021
• Peter Hotez Talks Russia, Lady Gaga, and the Antiscience Movement   Peter Hotez regularly counters antiscience rhetoric. He tells Eric Topol and Abraham Verghese how the movement cost lives in COVID-19, and that as clinicians, speaking up for science is ‘our lane.’
  Medscape, April 21, 2021
• Lessons Learned During COVID-19 Will Help Us Better Treat HCV In figuring out how to practice during a pandemic, we may have also learned new skills for monitoring and treating patients with HCV, says Dr William Balistreri.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, April 21, 2021
• Pandemic Shaming Can Backfire. Here's a Better Way We can’t expect people to avoid risks entirely. Instead, we should embrace the policy of harm reduction.
  Undark, December 03, 2020
• Liver Cancer Rates Are Rising; So Is Optimism Around Its Treatment Dr Nancy Reau shares the promising data leading her to believe that the trends around liver cancer can soon be reversed.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, November 20, 2020
• Vanquishing Hepatitis C: A Remarkable Success Story A look back at one of the singular achievements in medical research of the past 25 years, and what improvements are still to come.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, November 17, 2020
• AASLD 2020 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from AASLD 2020
  Medscape Gastroenterology, November 13, 2020
• PrEP Is Highly Effective; How Can We Increase Adoption? Preexposure prophylaxis has been proven to be effective when taken consistently, but treatment uptake and retention are low. What can clinicians do to expand HIV prevention?
  Medscape HIV/AIDS, June 25, 2020
• ILC 2020 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from ILC 2020
  Medscape Gastroenterology, May 04, 2020
• ACIP 2020 Child/Teen Immunization Schedule: The Highlights A quick tour of key changes in the 2020 ACIP child/adolescent immunization schedule.
  Medscape Pediatrics, February 04, 2020
• Updated Guidance for Hepatitis C Virus Treatment in Primary Care Eradication of hepatitis C won't happen without the help of the primary care provider workforce.
  Medscape Family Medicine, December 24, 2019
• Malpractice Case: Dangers When Taking Over a Patient's Care Accepting a transfer patient means accepting the issues and medication that come with that patient. Failure to understand that can result in a lawsuit if something goes wrong.
  Cooperative of American Physicians, December 09, 2019