Immunization - Adult Immunization Features

• Heart Rate Variability: Ignoring a Harbinger of Health? Many of today's fitness wearables provide HRV scores, but we may be paying too little attention to their significance in health and disease.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, October 25, 2023
• Upper Respiratory Infections: Viral Testing in Primary Care COVID has ushered in a new era in the diagnosis and management of colds, flu, and COVID.
  Medscape Family Medicine, October 23, 2023
• COVID, Flu, RSV: How the Tripledemic Impacts Your Practice   This fall's ‘tripledemic’ is already filling offices with COVID-19, flu and RSV patients. Renowned expert Dr. Eric Topol discusses the vaccine landscape to help you tackle your patients' questions.
  Medscape Family Medicine, September 21, 2023
• Left-Digit Bias and Other Random Acts of Medicine   A new book reveals how chance can change the course of a person's health, life, and death.
  Medscape, September 07, 2023
• Try a Little D.I.Y. Do we need to do a better job of preparing physicians for the realities of an increasingly challenging profession?
  MDedge, August 22, 2023
• How the Modern ICU Was Galvanized By a Polio Epidemic   The medical and dental students who kept polio patients alive by hand-ventilating them around the clock are among the cast of characters in this incredible story.
  Medscape, August 15, 2023
• Bob Wachter's Viral Tweet and Thoughts on AI in Medicine   The gig was up, but when he finally got COVID, it was pretty far down on his ER problem list.
  Medscape, July 25, 2023
• Celebs Shouldn't Get Away With Spreading Misinformation   Bioethicist Art Caplan, PhD, discusses the most powerful ways to battle misinformation in the media.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, July 05, 2023
• Change Makers: FDA Commissioner Dr Califf on Public Health WebMD Chief Medical Officer John Whyte, MD, MPH, speaks with FDA Commissioner Robert Califf, MD, about the vital role of the FDA in protecting public health and how it is responding to recent issues.
  Medscape, May 31, 2023
• 'They All Laughed When I Spoke of Greedy Doctors' Dr George Lundberg comments on unchecked greed and salve lucrum (the glorification of profit) in health and medicine.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, March 20, 2023
• Physicians and Clinicians Should Be Required to Get Flu Shots: Ethicist   Arthur L. Caplan, PhD, discusses the importance of flu vaccination for healthcare providers.
  Medscape Business of Medicine, February 23, 2023
• Change Makers: Dr Rice on Disparities and Moving From Talk to Action WebMD's Chief Medical Officer, John Whyte, MD, MPH, speaks with Valerie Montgomery Rice, MD, on cultural humility in healthcare disparities.
  Medscape, January 31, 2023
• The Mathematician Who Knows Uncertainty Is Unavoidable   Eric Topol and Abraham Verghese chat with the UK's professor Hannah Fry about taking risks and asking the right questions.
  Medscape, January 18, 2023
• Three Wishes: The Changes Health Professionals Want In the spirit of suspended disbelief, we asked physicians and other contributors what their three wishes would be for their patients, practice/hospital, and health systems.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, January 18, 2023
• Spikes Out: A COVID Mystery   Is the root cause of post-COVID vaccine myocarditis medicine's own "Glass Onion"? F. Perry Wilson lines up the suspects and eliminates them, one by one, to identify the likely culprit.
  Medscape, January 10, 2023
• Florida Heads Down a Dangerous COVID Road Gov DeSantis has set up a committee of COVID skeptics to evaluate anti-COVID guidelines. Will this lead to more sickness and death in that state?
  Medscape Business of Medicine, December 28, 2022
• Could Vaccines Provide Better Immunity Than COVID Infection?   A new study seeks to answer a question that may be outdated in regard to COVID: whether it's better to obtain immunity through vaccination or natural infection.
  Medscape, December 20, 2022
• Happy 200th Birthday, Gregor Mendel and Louis Pasteur These scientific giants presided over medicine's break from the four humors toward modernity — but it wasn't always smooth.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, December 13, 2022
• Medically Speaking, 2022 Was the Best Year Yet for Children Despite the headlines, we need to remember that children born today are better off than ever before.
  Medscape Pediatrics, December 05, 2022
• Top 10 Unproven Infertility Tests and Treatments Mark P. Trolice, MD, discusses popular but unproven fertility methods.
  MDedge, December 01, 2022