Hepatitis C Perspective

• Episode 4: Retention and Care for Patients With HIV   Drs Michael Saag and Michael Mugavero discuss the connection between antiretroviral therapy, retention, and care for patients with HIV.
  Medscape, May 04, 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
• Harm Reduction Splits the Recovery Community A family medicine physician in upstate New York reflects on the challenges of running a recovery clinic.
  Medscape Family Medicine, February 14, 2022
• Treating NAFLD by Defeating Obesity: What Are the Best Options? Bariatric surgery is often the treatment of last resort, but considering it earlier may be just what patients with fatty liver disease need.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, January 21, 2022
• The Best Liver Tests in Primary Care   The Curbsiders share pearls from an expert hepatologist on which tests to order during first-round testing for a patient with a possible liver injury or disorder.
  The Curbsiders, November 30, 2021
• 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
• GI Cancer and Obesity: Fighting One Means Addressing the Other Patient awareness of obesity's link to gastrointestinal cancer is limited. This overview will help you make the case on why weight management may help them avoid serious disease.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, October 06, 2021
• Interpreting the CBC: What's Truly Important?   The Curbsiders dive into common CBC abnormalities and what they mean with hematologist Dr Mary Kwok.
  The Curbsiders, September 28, 2021
• 16 Mnemonics All Docs Can Use Physician-artist Nick Love's newest collection of clinical mnemonics will make 'medical rounds Jeopardy' champs out of you.
  Medscape News Slideshows, August 16, 2021
• ILC 2021 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from ILC 2021
  Medscape Gastroenterology, June 23, 2021
• The Alcohol Pandemic: Are We Ready for What's Next? Drinking and obesity are on the rise, creating a perfect storm for liver disorders in our patients.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, May 25, 2021
• DDW 2021 Read clinically focused news coverage of key developments from DDW 2021
  Medscape Gastroenterology, May 19, 2021
• America's Forgotten History of Supervised Opioid Injection Facilities that would allow people to openly use opioids are igniting controversy today, but were once widespread.
  Undark, April 29, 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
• New AASLD Guidelines Reconsider Bleeding Risk in Cirrhosis   Dr David Johnson comments on the paradigm-shifting implications of these guidelines on coagulation and bleeding in patients with cirrhosis.
  Medscape Gastroenterology, March 04, 2021
• The Likely Future of COVID-19? More Than Polio, Less Than Flu   Is the end goal in the fight against SARS-CoV-2 eradication of the virus or to have numbers similar to that of flu? Neither, says F. Perry Wilson.
  Medscape, March 03, 2021
• How Sjogren Syndrome Intersects With COVID-19 Physicians Robert Fox and Alan N. Baer discuss the latest research on Sjogren's, presented at the ACR Convergence virtual meeting.
  Medscape Rheumatology, December 24, 2020
• Physicians of the Year 2020: Best and Worst Physicians and other healthcare workers around the world worked tirelessly on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, and hundreds lost their lives as a result. However, with the good comes the bad.
  Medscape News Slideshows, December 18, 2020