Tori Rodriguez, MA, LPC, AHC

Finding the time to get away and relax should not be treated as a luxury, especially in the high stress work environment that is the medical field.

Matthew L. Springer, PhD, Sandhya Venugopal, MD, and Kinjan Parikh, MD, discuss the effect of e-cigarettes on cardiovascular health.

Findings published in 2020 suggest that irregular sleep schedules may increase CVD risk independent of sleep quality or duration.

Sameed Khatana MD, and Barrak Alahmad, MD, discuss the impact of climate change on patients’ risk for cardiovascular disease.

Apps for detecting sleep apnea are increasingly popular, but are they effective — and is the data they generate relevant for clinicians?

Dr Seppo T. Rinne, lead author of a September 2021 study on burnout among critical care providers, discusses the pandemic, systemic causes of burnout, and what can be done.

What are the most effective pharmacologic therapies recommended for treating patients with moderate to severe COVID-19? Drs Sarina Sahetya of Johns Hopkins University, Matthew Exline of Ohio State University, and Minjoung Go of Stanford University offer their perspectives.

Experts discuss the role of the gut microbiome in health inequities and offer suggestions for improving these disparities within research and policy.

Elizabeth Profita, MD, and Gerard J. Boyle, MD, FACC, discuss myocarditis in younger populations and how pediatric cardiologists should respond with treatment.

COVID-19 has further fueled widespread burnout among pulmonologists. David Hill, MD, an American Lung Association medical spokesperson, offers perspective.

A significant number of cases of post-COVID-19 myocarditis have been reported.

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic began, concerning mental health trends and major treatment gaps were noted among adolescents. We spoke with Cécile Rousseau, MD, researcher, psychiatrist, and professor in the division of social and transcultural psychiatry at McGill University in Montreal, Canada about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescent mental health.

Higher rates of smoking, lower rates of lung cancer screening, and more diagnoses of asthma and COPD have been seen in transgender vs cisgender individuals.

About 90% of those with familial hypercholesterolemia have not been diagnosed or treated for it, leaving them more vulnerable for COVID-19 infection and its complications.

Since pulse oximetry technology was developed in nondiverse populations, racial bias may influence the accuracy of pulse oximeter readings.

An emerging body of research highlights plant-based vaccine manufacturing as a potential solution to risks posed by traditional egg-based manufacturing.

Patients with “long COVID” have described a wide array of ongoing, unpredictable impairments in physical, cognitive, emotional, and occupational functioning.

Anna Lembke, MD, discusses how patients who use drugs are affected by the convergence of 2 public health emergencies – increasing overdose rates, and the COVID-19 pandemic – and addresses controversial solutions proposed by other investigators.