Tips to Determine if Online Health Information is Reliable
How can you tell if a source of health information is trust-worthy? […]
Tag: Dr. Linda Girgis
Basal Insulins for treating diabetes mellitus, from discovery to modernity
Basal insulin is also referred to as background insulin. It is that insulin which the pancreas produces and is present all the time. […]
Overview of hATTR Amyloidosis: New CME
Join our experts for a one-hour CME presentation as they appraise clinical safety and efficacy data for new and emerging therapeutic agents for the treatment of hATTR amyloidosis. […]
Tips to Prepare for Your Doctor’s Visit
Going to see your doctor can be a frightening experience: you may be worried you have a serious affliction, or maybe you’re just going to follow up for a chronic condition, or maybe there is a procedure you are facing that you know will be painful. […]
Overview of Ovarian Cancer: New CME
According to the CDC, ovarian cancer is the second most common gynecologic cancer, comprising 3% of all cancers in women. Approximately 11 out of every 100,000 women are diagnosed with new cases annually (over 20,000), and 7 out of every 100,000 (over 14,000) will die of the disease in the same time period. […]
Overview of Overactive Bladder: New CME
Overactive bladder (OAB) is a distressing bladder disorder marked by urinary urgency, frequency, nocturia, and urge incontinence. It often has a negative impact on the quality of life, sleep, sexual function, and mental health. […]
Overview of Follicular Lymphoma: New CME
A new follicular lymphoma CME program worth 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™, is now available on demand. Find it here. In the Western hemisphere, follicular lymphoma (FL) is the most common non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). In the US in 2018, it is expected that approximately 74,680 new cases of NHL will be diagnosed and 20% […]
Managing Your Cancer as a Chronic Disease
Current statistics estimate that this year, of the 1,735,350 new cases of cancer that will be diagnosed in the United States, over 1.1 million people will face the challenges of continuing to live a meaningful life with cancer. While everyone has heard about the rigors of and side effects than can accompany cancer treatments such […]
Exploring Our Current Knowledge of the Pathophysiology of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: New CME
Find new Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis CME on ResInsightsLive, and a program designed for patients and their families on RareDiseaseLive. Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a rare pulmonary disease caused by the formation of scar tissue in the lungs without any known triggering factor. Across the globe, five million people are affected with a prevalence […]
Carcinoid Syndrome: The Tumor and the Hormones
He lay there in the ICU bed with his family standing by in the waiting area. As the intern on call, I was called to his bedside once again because his blood pressure plunged dangerously low. Unfortunately, his prognosis was poor, in fact terminal. The medical team knew this would be the last time he […]
Taking Control of Your Diabetes by Monitoring Your Blood Sugar at Home
Most patients with diabetes end up with a glucometer for testing their blood sugar at home. However, I frequently find that many of the patients I see did not receive instructions on how or when to check their sugar, or what to do with the results when they have them. Of course, the answer to […]
Ground-Breaking PRECISION Study Results: MRI Superior for Prostate Cancer
Currently, the guidelines around prostate cancer for physicians like me follow are murky, and best practices are subject to debate by different medical organizations. A widely-known recommendation called a PSA (Prostate Specific Antigen) screening, for example, has been fraught with failings and blamed for causing an unacceptable number of unnecessary prostate biopsies. On March 19, […]
Tips to Prevent Prediabetes from Turning into Diabetes
While much research is being conducted into rising rates of diabetes mellitus around the globe, in the US an approximate 85 million people have prediabetes. Prediabetes is a condition where a person’s blood sugar is elevated outside the normal range but do not meet the criteria for diabetes. It is very important to identify these […]
Prostate Cancer Tests: How to advise patients when recommendations disagree
What do doctors need to know about prostate cancer and the tests used to diagnose it? According to the American Cancer Society, who offer the most recent data regarding cancer statistics in the U.S., an estimated 161,360 men were newly diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2017. In the same time period, over 26,000 men died […]
The Struggles of Being Diabetic
Please join DiabetesCoachLive for a special program designed for diabetic people and their loved ones. Patients and experts from Joslin Diabetes Center will be walking through insulin options, debunking myths about side effects, and answering questions from the audience. Watch on demand now >> When people think of diabetes, their mind immediately jumps to […]
Women who Have Changed the Course of Medicine
Today, medical school enrollment is nearly equivalent between men and women across the country – but most women physicians still believe that disparities exist between male and female doctors due to personal experience and staggering gender differences in medical leadership. While 73 percent of health service and medical manager jobs are held by women, only […]
Exploring the Increased Mortality Rate in Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a mental health disorder that is chronic and disabling and affects the way a person thinks, feels, and behaves. Typically, symptoms start between the ages of 16 and 30; rarely it is observed in children as well. Symptoms of this disease are categorized into 3 types – positive, negative, and cognitive: Positive symptoms: These […]