Q&A

Weight Loss
Weight Loss
01/15/2022
Christopher Still, DO, director of Geisinger Obesity Institute, names common challenges patients encounter when it comes to changing their eating habits, and how providers can positively engage patients to...
01/15/2022
prevention
prevention
01/13/2022
Jason J. Ong, PhD, MBBS, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, answers our questions about his team’s research on STI prevalence and incidence among new and persistent users of...
01/13/2022
pregnancy
pregnancy
01/12/2022
A new study examined the relative contributions of pre-ART drug resistance mutations vs nonadherence in the etiology of elevated viral loads among pregnant women with HIV who initiate ART. Lead author...
01/12/2022
Cholesterol
Cholesterol
01/09/2022
Researcher Sara Levintow, PhD candidate, answers our questions about her research that evaluated cholesterol testing rates before and after the 2013 ACC/AHA cholesterol treatment guidelines were published....
01/09/2022
Risk Management
Risk Management
11/18/2021
In this Q&A, Edward Kuan, MD, answers our questions about nasal polyps, including their clinical characteristics, prevalence, surgery recommendations, and recurrence rates.
11/18/2021
Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
10/27/2021
Researchers conducted a study of genomic data to clarify the relationships among nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, type 2 diabetes, and obesity. Lead author Wanqing Liu, PhD, answered our questions about...
10/27/2021
Public Health
Public Health
10/19/2021
Jieyu Ding Featherstone, a PhD student at the University of California Davis, and colleagues conducted a study to better understand the discourse on social media about the flu vaccine during the 2017-2018...
10/19/2021
Screening
Screening
10/18/2021
Alexander Egeberg, MD, PhD, discusses his latest research, which suggests that 1 in 4 patients with psoriasis also has psoriatic arthritis.
10/18/2021
Medication Prescribing
Medication Prescribing
10/07/2021
In this Q&A, Marie Bradley, PhD, discusses a recent study in which researchers examined how the benefit risk of apixaban and warfarin varied by age in patients aged less than 65 years with nonvalvular...
10/07/2021
pregnancy
pregnancy
09/27/2021
Consultant360 spoke with Amy Ushry, RN, MPH, who discussed rates of maternal morbidity and mortality and ongoing endeavors to reduce these rates at the NPWH 22nd Annual Premier Women’s Healthcare...
09/27/2021