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Placebos, Pain, and Price: How Conflicts of Interest Emerge Despite Best Intentions
https://reachmd.com/programs/clinicians-roundtable/placebos-pain-and-price-how-conflicts-of-interest-emerge-despite-best-intentions/3437/Why do headaches often persist after taking a one-cent aspirin, yet disappear after taking a fifty-cent aspirin? Dan Ariely, behavioral economist and author of Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions, refutes the common assumption that clinicians and patients behave in funImplications of Graft vs. Host Disease in Modern Medicine
https://reachmd.com/programs/focus-on-public-health-policy/implications-of-graft-vs-host-disease-in-modern-medicine/3411/We know graft-versus-host disease is a common complication in transplant patients. How can this also be happening at an institutional level? Julie Salamon's recent book, Hospital-Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God and Diversity on Steroids, offers a glimpse ofTight Glycemic Control for the Critically Ill
https://reachmd.com/programs/focus-on-pharmacy/tight-glycemic-control-for-the-critically-ill/2771/When attempting to control blood sugar levels in critically ill patients, how far should we go? Host Dr. Charles Turck probes this question and more with Dr. Brian Smith, director of education in clinical services of the pharmacy department of the University of Massachussetts (UMass) Memorial MedicaThe Efficacy of the 2007-2008 Influenza Vaccines
https://reachmd.com/programs/clinicians-roundtable/the-efficacy-of-the-2007-2008-influenza-vaccines/2724/Why has this year's flu season seemed more severe than those in the past? Are the vaccines working? Are influenza strains more difficult to predict? In addressing this year's peculiar flu season, host Dr. Bruce Bloom speaks with Dr. Tony Fiore, a vaccination and immunization expert from the CDC's NaColon Cancer Screening Modalities
https://reachmd.com/programs/clinicians-roundtable/colon-cancer-screening-modalities/2555/A colon cancer screening is virtually implicit with colonoscopies. But, when should follow-up exams be performed in patients with varying degrees of risk? Dr. Carol Burke, Director of the Center for Colon Polyp & Cancer Prevention at the Cleveland Clinic, discusses colon cancer screening modalDiabetes Nutrition
https://reachmd.com/programs/clinicians-roundtable/diabetes-nutrition/1918/As the epidemic of obesity continues to grow, we can expect that the prevalence of diabetes will rise accordingly. The age distribution of type 2 diabetes is moving younger and younger. What can we do to stop these alarming trends? certified diabetes educator Jeannee Diaz discusses diabetes nutritiHIV During Pregnancy: Myths & Prejudices
https://reachmd.com/programs/clinicians-roundtable/hiv-during-pregnancy-myths-and-prejudices/1838/Before the Hepatitis B vaccine, up to one-third of obstetricians had been infected with Hepatitis B—chiefly from needle sticks or other exposures to bodily fluids. However, our modern day plague, HIV has no vaccine. What are the risks to doctors and nurses from providing care to HIV patients? In thiMaternal Stroke: Causes, Risks, and Care in Pregnancy and Postpartum
https://reachmd.com/programs/neurofrontiers/maternal-stroke-causes-risks-and-care-in-pregnancy-and-postpartum/24089/Tune in to learn more about the causes, risks, and treatment of stroke in pregnancy and postpartum.Applying CKD Interventions
https://reachmd.com/programs/kdigo-conversations-nephrology/applying-ckd-interventions/15872/What role do non-pharmacological and pharmacological interventions have in the prevention of chronic kidney disease progression?Big Data in Quality Improvement: The Clinician's Role
https://reachmd.com/programs/lifelong-learning/big-data-in-quality-improvement-the-clinicians-role/7196/Host Alicia Sutton welcomes Dr. Arif Kamal, Director of Quality and Outcomes at the Duke Cancer Institute, to talk about ways in which clinicians can become more involved or even take the reins of leadership in quality improvement initiatives within their health systems. The discussion pays close at