Host: Codyanne Murtaugh Guest: Mary Beth Pfeiffer With cases being reported in every state and across 80 countries, Lyme disease has become one of the fastest growing vector-borne illnesses in the world. But have you ever wondered how this global health threat came to be? That’s what journalist Mary Beth Pfeiffer investigates in her book, Lyme: The First Epidemic of Climate Change, and with the ReachMD team. 

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Lyme: The First Epidemic of Climate Change

Host: Scott Kopetz, MD, PhD, FACP Guest: Alberto Sobrero, MD Guest: Rui-Hua Xu, MD O cancro colorretal metastático é difícil de gerir e tem múltiplas mutações genéticas, expressões e amplificações, tais como o lado do tumor. E, apesar dos desafios em identificar estas distinções, estas também oferecem pistas essenciais sobre qual a melhor opção de tratamento para cada doente, tal como explicam o Dr. Scott Kopetz, o Dr. Rui-Hua Xu e o Dr. Alberto Sobrero. 

Melhorar a Prática Clínica na Gestão do mCRC: Ênfase no Lado do Tumor

Host: Scott Kopetz, MD, PhD, FACP Guest: Alberto Sobrero, MD Guest: Rui-Hua Xu, MD El cáncer colorrectal metastásico es difícil de tratar y presenta varias mutaciones genéticas, expresiones y amplificaciones, tal como la lateralidad del tumor. Y, tal como explican el Dr. Scott Kopetz, el Dr. Rui-Hua Xu y el Dr. Alberto Sobrero, aunque identificar estas distinciones puede resultar una tarea difícil, al hacerlo se averiguan pistas esenciales para decidir cuál es la mejor opción de tratamiento para cada paciente.

Mejorar la práctica clínica en el tratamiento del CCRm: énfasis en la lateralidad tumoral

Host: Scott Kopetz, MD, PhD, FACP Guest: Alberto Sobrero, MD Guest: Rui-Hua Xu, MD Metastatic colorectal cancer is difficult to manage and has multiple genetic mutations, expressions, and amplifications, such as tumor sidedness. And while identifying these distinctions can be challenging, they offer essential clues to which treatment option is best for each patient, as Dr. Scott Kopetz, Dr. Rui-Hua Xu, and Dr. Alberto Sobrero explain.

Improving Clinical Practice in Management of mCRC: A Focus on Tumor Sidedness

Guest: Masae Kawamura, MD Tuberculosis (TB) takes a life every 18 seconds…but you can play a part in putting a stop to the spread of this infectious disease by adopting screening best practices. Here to run down who and how you should screen for TB is Dr. Masae Kawamura, Qiagen’s Senior Director of Scientific and Medical Affairs.

Preventing TB: Who & How to Screen

Host: John J. Russell, MD Guest: Lee Reichman, MD, MPH To help us understand how primary care physicians can lead the way in proactively identifying and treating patients at high risk for TB, we caught up with Dr. Lee Reichman, Founding Executive Director of the Rutgers Global Tuberculosis Institute and Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.

TB Screening Strategies: Is It Time to Update Our Approach?

Guest: Scott Lindquist, MD, MPH Primary care physicians play a critical role in eliminating TB, which is why they need to know who they should screen for TB and how. Join Dr. Scott Lindquist, state epidemiologist for communicable diseases and Deputy Health Officer for Washington State, as he explains the importance of risk-based TB screening and the testing methods that are appropriate for these patients.

The Role of Primary Care in Eliminating TB

Host: Maurice Pickard, MD Guest: Beth Macy Beth Macy’s Dopesick is a heartbreaking trajectory that illustrates how America’s twenty-plus year struggle with opioid addiction has persisted for this long and has become so firmly entrenched in practically every corner of our country—from desolate cities to once idyllic farm towns. Tune in as Beth Macy joins Dr. Maurice Pickard to illuminate the persistent and often conflicting gaps in the treatment and criminal-justice landscapes while shining a hopeful light on the heroes battling the worst drug epidemic in American history. 

Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America

Host: Michael Greenberg, MD Guest: Michele Meltzer, MD Rheumatology services are limited or non-existent in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa. Basic diagnostic tests, biological agents, and treatments are either unavailable or not affordable for the majority of people living in that area. This shortage results in patients not having the benefit of early diagnosis and management of relatively cheap and cost-effective therapies. Instead, they present at advanced stages of disease with otherwise preventable morbidity. Host Michael Greenberg chats with Dr. Michele Meltzer, Associate Professor at Jefferson University Hospitals in Philadelphia and President of the non-profit organization, Rheumatology for All, about providing medical training and care for countries with limited or non-existent rheumatology services.

Rheumatology for All: The Quest for Bringing Rheumatoid Services to Underrepresented Countries

Host: Brian P. McDonough, MD, FAAFP Cigarette smoking is one of the leading cause of preventable death in North America, an unfortunate statistic that is rapidly replicating across the rest of the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) predicts based on current trends that cigarette smoking will kill a billion people this century. But what can be done to reverse this trend? Host Brian McDonough talks with David Sweanor, Adjunct Professor of Law, and Chair of the advisory committee for the Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics, at the University of Ottawa. Mr. Sweanor has been spearheading efforts to reduce cigarette smoking nationally and globally.

Rethinking Nicotine: The Campaign to Break the World's Tobacco Habit

Host: Matt Birnholz, MD Guest: Luanne Freer, MD Practicing medicine at 17,000 feet brings a unique set of challenges for doctors, including altitude-related sicknesses, IV fluids freezing, and the need for duct tape to serve as an essential medical tool. Dr. Matt Birnholz chats with Dr. Luanne Freer, Founder and Director of Everest ER, a medical clinic at Mount Everest Base Camp serving Everest climbers, support staff, and the local Nepalese population. To find out more information about Everest ER, please visit http://www.everester.org.

Everest ER: Practicing Medicine at 17,000 Feet

Host: Andrew Wilner, MD, Author of "The Locum Life: A Physician&#39;s Guide to Locum Tenens" Guest: Lawrence Loh, MD Almost two-thirds of medical students expect to join a medical mission during medical school and their medical early careers. Yet despite positive intent, such short-term experiences may exacerbate global health inequities and even cause harm. Dr. Lawrence Loh, Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto Dalla Lana School of Public Health, joins host Dr. Andrew Wilner to talk about the benefits and pitfalls of medical mission work for the communities being served.

Medical Missions: First Do No Harm?

Host: John J. Russell, MD Infectious disease has the terrifying power to disrupt everyday life on a global scale, overwhelming public and private resources and bringing trade and transportation to a grinding halt. Host Dr. John Russell sits down with Dr. Osterholm to talk about the book Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs. They talk about how we could wake up to a reality in which many antibiotics no longer cure, bioterror is a certainty, and the threat of a disastrous influenza pandemic looms ever larger. Only by understanding the challenges we face can we prevent the unthinkable from becoming the inevitable.

Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs

Host: John J. Russell, MD Host Dr. Russell sits down with Dr. Steven Hatch, an infectious disease specialist and author of the book, Inferno: a Doctor's Ebola Story, about his experience in Liberia during the heart of the Ebola crisis. Dr. Steven Hatch first came to Liberia in November 2013, to work at a hospital in Monrovia. Six months later, several of the physicians Dr. Hatch had mentored and served with were dead or barely clinging to life, and Ebola had become a world health emergency. Hundreds of victims perished each week; whole families were destroyed in a matter of days; so many died so quickly that the culturally taboo practice of cremation had to be instituted to dispose of the bodies. With little help from the international community and a population ravaged by disease and fear, the war-torn African nation was simply unprepared to deal with the catastrophe. A physician’s memoir about the ravages of a terrible disease and the small hospital that fought to contain it, Inferno is also an explanation of the science and biology of Ebola: how it is transmitted and spreads with such ferocity. And as Dr. Hatch notes, while Ebola is temporarily under control, it will inevitably re-emerge―as will ...

Inferno: A Doctor's Ebola Story

Host: Dr. Andrew Wilner Guest: John Kihm, MD Host Dr. Andrew Wilner explores different opportunities to combine medicine with outside interests when off call. Today, he talks with Dr. John Kihm, an internist in private practice in Durham, NC. who fell in love with North Carolina's Outer Banks and Ocracoke Island off Cape Hatteras while a 4th year medical student. He has found a way to combine his passion for volunteer medical work with his passion for flying by commuting to Ocracoke one weekend a month to conduct his special "house call" practice. 

Winged Medical Migrations: A Physician Aviator's Unique Career

As HIV/AIDS therapies take hold in Botswana, developing countries strive for clean and potable water, and India battles against malaria, we in the US ask - How are we working to promote health and longevity for people around the world? ReachMD investigates a range of medical issues that transcend the international landscape.

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