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In this podcast, Erin Michos, MD, talks about her latest study on how the influenza vaccine effects mortality and morbidity outcomes among patients with established cardiovascular disease. More at www.consultant360.com/cardiology

In this podcast, Megan Pinkston-Camp, MA, PhD, talks about whether a “brief advice about drinking” intervention or a “motivational interview" intervention could help reduce alcohol use among patients with HIV and hepatitis C virus—a high-risk group for liver disease progression and liver cancer.

In this podcast, Vincent Lo Re, MD, MSCE, talks about the barriers to hepatitis C virus direct-acting antiviral therapy and how they can be overcome, as well as the research question he hopes to answer by the end of his carer. More at www.consultant360.com

In this podcast, Vincent Lo Re, MD, MSCE, talks about the common pitfalls in hepatitis C virus management, as well as his best practices for reducing the risk of reinfection. More at www. Consultan360.com

In this podcast, Vincent Lo Re, MD, talks about the current knowledge gaps around hepatitis C virus screening, as well as how health care providers can implement better screening protocols in their practice. More at www. Consultant360.com

In this podcast, Evan Brickner and Trini Mathew, MD, MPH, discuss their latest research paper on evaluating for alcohol use disorder among patients with HIV in their primary care clinic, how other clinicians can implement this screening tool, and the impacts that screening can have on patients' well-being. More at www.consultant360.com/infectious-diseases

In this podcast, Peter Jones, MD, gives a preview of his presentation on the prevention of cardiovascular disease and the treatment of dyslipidemia, which will be presented at the Practical Updates in Primary Care 2020 Virtual Series on November 6, 2020.

In this podcast, Michael Peters, MD, talks about his team's cross-sectional analysis on the use of blood eosinophils and IL-6 as predictive biomarkers of the exacerbation-prone asthma phenotype over 3 years. More at www.consultant360.com/pulmonology.

In this podcast, Danielle Wales, MD, and Carina Abreu talk about their study that implemented health care provider education and electronic health record prompts for hepatitis C virus screening, as well as how these interventions impacted hepatitis C virus screening rates. More at www.consultant360.com/infectious-diseases

In this podcast, Maile Karris, MD, talks about the impact of pain and pain medication use on older adults with HIV, strategies she has used to better care for her older patients with HIV and pain, and the research questions she hopes to answer in the future. More at www.consultant360.com/infectious-diseases

In this podcast, Shravani Pasupneti, MD, talks about her team's latest study, which aimed to evaluate the role of endothelial-cell HIF-2α in the pathogenesis of emphysema in mice. More at www.consultant360.com/pulmonology

In this podcast, Allison Webel, PhD, RN, talks about the aging population with HIV, what the 6M framework is and how health care providers can implement it in practice, and the pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic therapies on the horizon. More at www.consultant360.com/infectious-diseases

In this podcast, Eloho Ajayi, MD, discusses her team's latest research that explored the rate of acceptance of the influenza vaccine among patients with limited English proficiency, as well as how she plans to use these findings to better understand why patients refuse the vaccine. More at: www.consultant360.com/infectious-diseases

In this podcast, Mark Liotta, Peter Cangialosi, and Diana Finkel, DO, discuss their latest research study, which examined the rate of adherence to the American College of Cardiology guideline on atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease prevention among people with HIV. More at www.consultant360.com/infectious-diseases

In this podcast, Greg Millett, MPH, talks about the health disparities seen among patients with COVID-19 and HIV, how the 2 pandemics are similar, and the missed opportunities for preventing the spread of COVID-19 among communities of color. More at www.consultant360.com/infectious-diseases

In part 1, Jean Liew, MD, discussed her research that showed that stress and anxiety were independent predictors of patient‐reported disease activity among individuals with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA)during the COVID‐19 pandemic. In part 2 of our podcast conversation, Dr Liew explains how her findings can be translated to other major stressors that patients with axSpA may experience and how yo...

How have the stressors of the COVID-19 pandemic affected the patient-reported disease activity among individuals with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA)? In this podcast, Jean Liew, MD, explains what she and her team discovered about the association between stress, anxiety, and axSpA during the pandemic and what it suggests about the importance of stress/anxiety management among patients with axSpA....

In this podcast, Harrys A. Torres, MD, talks about his team's study that aimed to identify the optimal screening test for hepatitis C virus in patients with hematologic malignancies and/or prior hematopoietic cell transplant. More at www.consultant360.com

In this podcast, Carol Burke, MD, discusses her team's latest research on treatment options for patients with familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP), how eflornithine plus sulindac affected disease progression over 2 years, and how patients may be able to stave off surgery. More at www.consultant360.com

In this podcast, Irum Noor, DO, talks about the challenges associated with influenza season 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic, how her patients have responded to receiving the flu vaccine, and her best practices for treating patients with chronic conditions such as asthma who want to receive the flu vaccine. For more, visit www.consultant360.com

In this podcast, Dr Bhattacharyya discusses declining trends in hip fractures seen over the last 40 years, how osteoporosis treatment efforts relate to these trends, and what factors have had the most influence on the declines.

In this podcast, Edmond Hooker, MD, DrPH, talks about his research on the trends in US emergency department visits and costs between 2010 and 2016, the factors that may have affected these trends, how the trends have affected facilities across the United States. More at: www.consultant360.com

In this podcast, Pulmonology Consultant Board Member Jaspal Singh, MD, MHA, MHS, interviews 3 early adopters of robotic bronchoscopy. Gustavo Cumbo Nacheli, MD; D. Kyle Hogarth, MD; and Michael A. Pritchett, DO, MPH, share insight into their experience with the innovative technology. They also discuss when is the right time to purchase the technology, how to choose a platform, and what innovations...

A team of researchers recently evaluated whether the Health Assessment Questionnaire‐Disability Index (HAQ-DI) is interchangeable with the Patient‐Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System‐Physical Function (PROMIS-PF) when measuring minimal disease activity (MDA) among patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA). The findings showed that there is “excellent agreement” between HAQ‐DI and PROMIS...

In this podcast, Brian C. Lentle, MD, discusses his research that addresses the lack of a precise definition of osteoporotic vertebral fractures, methods for identifying these fractures and distinguishing them from nonfracture lesions, and potential strategies for simplifying the terminology associated with these conditions. For more, visit https://www.consultant360.com/endocrinology