Opinion

Pulmonary Hypertension

Making the Case for Earlier Palliative Care in PAH: A Clinical Opinion

By

George Marzouka

Publish Date March 19, 2019

A clinician shares his experience with palliative care in cardiology and makes the case for offering palliative care services earlier in pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Asthma

Why Does Asthma Prevail? A Clinician’s Opinion on Nonadherence

By

Tregony Simoneau, MD

Publish Date February 11, 2019

Tregony Simoneau, MD, a pediatric pulmonologist, shares her experiences with nonadherence in treating asthma.

Lung Cancer

Diagnostic Test Can Identify Biomarkers to Detect Lung Cancer

By

Leah Lawrence

Publish Date October 4, 2017

A new diagnostic test and algorithm may be able to diagnose lung cancer from tumor-educated platelets.

Practice Management

Debating the Role of Medical Scribes in Clinical Practice

Publish Date September 21, 2017

Medical scribes have been viewed as effective in improving a variety factors in the clinical setting; however, some healthcare professionals have concerns about their role.

Influenza

Public Health and Influenza: Why the Flu Vaccine is So Important

By

Tafari Mbadiwe, MD, JD

Publish Date August 10, 2017

During the 2015-2016 flu season, approximately 59.3% of children and 41.7% of adults received the influenza vaccine.

Practice Management

Q&A: Informed Consent in Medical Research

By

Brian Ellis

Publish Date July 7, 2017

Informed consent is known to obe ethically essential in most medical research, despite it being a new concept for the US.