Guest: Cecil Wilson, MD Host: John Armstrong, MD It's been a big year for medicine, and the next promises to be just as significant. Although health system reform was sorely needed, there are still components that need to be addressed, not the least of which is the flawed Medicare payment formula. The new AMA president, Dr. Cecil Wilson, who is an internist from Winter Park, Florida, discusses how the AMA will work to improve the healthcare system and increase patient access to care in the comin...
Jun 18, 20100
Host: Mark Chyna, MD Tune in for the latest clinical information and findings presented by experts from around the world at the American Psychiatric Association's 2010 meeting in New Orleans.
Jun 18, 20100
Host: John Armstrong, MD Reporting from the floor of the 2010 AMA House of Delegates meeting, host Dr. John Armstrong gets reactions from key players about some of the most significant proposed resolutions. Public health issues discussed at this year's meeting include the health impacts of the gulf oil spill, mammography guidelines, smoking in multi-unit housing and personalized medicine. Tune in for a round-up of these issues and more of today's biggest questions in medicine, including the futu...
Jun 17, 20100
Host: Mark Chyna, MD Join us for updates from this year's conference, featuring the details of promising research in the diagnosis and treatment of lung, breast, genito-urinary, gastrointestinal and gynecologic cancers. This conference took place June 4 - 8, 2010, in Chicago.
Jun 11, 20100
Host: Mark Chyna, MD Listen to the latest research findings presented at Digestive Disease Week 2010. This conference was held May 1-6 in New Orleans.
Jun 04, 20100
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May 28, 20100
Host: Mark Chyna, MD Tune in for innovative science, trial results, and news of novel technologies from this year's cancer research meeting in Washington, DC, April 17 - 21, 2010.
May 06, 20100
Host: Mark Chyna, MD Tune in to coverage of research highlights from the AAN's annual 2010 meeting in Toronto.
Apr 30, 20100
Host: Mark Chyna, MD Tune in to hear important findings from the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists 41st Annual Meeting on Women's Cancer. This meeting took place March 14th through the 17th, 2010, in San Francisco. Over 1,800 attendees gathered to find out the latest research into the diagnosis, prevention and management of gynecologic cancers, included advances in chemotherapy, cancer screening, and radiation and surgical approaches.
Apr 09, 20100
Host: Mark Chyna, MD Tune into the latest research presented at the American College of Cardiology’s 59th Annual Scientific Session, held March 14 through the 16th, 2010, in Atlanta.
Apr 02, 20100
Host: Mark Chyna, MD This Conference Coverage spotlights the American Academy of Dermatology's 68th Annual Meeting, March 5 - 9 in Miami Beach, Florida. The 2010 meeting attracted a record number of attendees, and featured 370 sessions, more than 1,300 faculty, and 600 electronic posters, covering biologic drugs, light-based technologies and nanotechnologies, to name a few of the research areas.
Mar 26, 20100
Host: Mark Chyna, MD Listen to the latest research presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology's 2010 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium, held March 5 - 7 in San Francisco, California, including findings on prostate, penile and bladder cancer.
Mar 19, 20100
Host: Mark Chyna, MD Tune in for the latest clinical information and research findings from the 2010 American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology annual meeting, February 26th through March 2nd, in New Orleans. Highlights covered food allergies, asthma in children and adults and personalized medicine.
Mar 12, 20100
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference brings together more than 28,000 healthcare industry IT experts to see offerings from over 900 exhibitors. It is the largest annual gathering in the healthcare information technology field. This year's exhibit takes on special significance given federal incentives to accelerate adoption of information technology in the healthcare arena. Dr. Matthew Birnholz hosts this second of two program...
Mar 11, 20100
Host: Matt Birnholz, MD The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual Conference brings together more than 28,000 healthcare industry IT experts to see offerings from over 900 exhibitors. It is the largest annual gathering in the healthcare information technology field. This year's exhibit takes on special significance given federal incentives to accelerate adoption of information technology in the healthcare arena. Dr. Matthew Birnholz hosts this first of two programs...
Mar 11, 20100
Host: Lawrence Sherman, FACEHP, CCMEP ReachMD Presents Conference Coverage Highlights from the Alliance for Continuing Medical Education 2010 35th Annual Conference in New Orleans on January 27-30, 2010. The theme of the conference - Establishing CME as a Pathway to Better Patient Care - provided the opportunity for medical educators and planners from various specialties to share best practices and discuss broader issues and concerns. Guests on this program include: Alejandro Aparicio, MD, Direc...
Feb 11, 20100
Host: Lawrence Sherman, FACEHP, CCMEP ReachMD Presents Conference Coverage Highlights from the Alliance for Continuing Medical Education 2010 35th Annual Conference in New Orleans on January 27-30, 2010. The theme of the conference — Establishing CME as a Pathway to Better Patient Care — provided the opportunity for medical educators and planners from various specialties to share best practices and discuss broader issues and concerns. Guests on this program include: Jann Balmer, PhD, President o...
Feb 10, 20100
Host: Mark Chyna, MD These Conference Coverage Highlights are from the American Society of Clinical Oncology's Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium, held January 22nd to the 24th in Orlando, Florida. The meeting presented more than 500 abstracts on gastrointestinal cancers affecting the esophagus, stomach, hepatobiliary system, pancreas, small bowel, colon and rectum.
Feb 06, 20100
Host: Mark Chyna, MD The 32nd Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium took place December 9th through the 13th, 2009. The meeting featured more than 1,000 presentations on the experimental biology, etiology, prevention, diagnosis, and therapy of breast cancer and premalignant breast disease. These highlights cover major findings.
Dec 30, 20090
Host: Mark Chyna, MD Tune in for highlights and latest research presented at the American Association for Respiratory Care's 55th International Respiratory Congress. This meeting took place in San Antonio, Texas, December 5th through 8th. Findings included the effect of specialized rapid response teams on serious complications like cardiac arrest and respiratory failure, the ability of neonates to ventilate on Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assist, or NAVA, and research on the improved prevention...
Dec 21, 20090
Tune in to hear important highlights from research findings presented at the Radiological Society of North America's 2009 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, November 29th through December 4th.
Dec 18, 20090
Guest: Stamatia Destounis, MD Host: Jason Birnholz, MD These interviews were recorded at the Radiological Society of North America's 95th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, which took place November 29th through December 4th, 2009, in Chicago. Host Dr. Jason Birnholz talks with Dr. Stamatia Destounis, associate clinical professor of radiology at the University of Rochester, and a practicing radiologist at the Elizabeth Wende Breast Care Center in Rochester, New York. Dr. Destounis presented...
Dec 09, 20090
Host: Jason Birnholz, MD These interviews were recorded at the Radiological Society of North America's 95th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, which took place November 29th through December 4th in Chicago. Host Dr. Jason Birnholz talks with Dr. Rozemarijn Vliegenthart, from the University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands, who presented at the conference a paper entitled, "High Prevalence of Treatable Severe Coronary Artery Disease: Findings in a Randomized Controlled Trial in Ca...
Dec 09, 20090
Host: Jason Birnholz, MD This program features Dr. David Cosgrove, professor of clinical ultrasound, Imperial College School of Medicine, and honorary consultant in radiology at the Hammersmith Hospital in London. He is an expert in ultrasound, known around the world, and is the author of numerous publications. He speaks with host Dr. Jason Birnholz about a new form of ultrasound imaging— elastography, or sheer wave imaging — for detecting breast cancer. Next, Dr. Birhnolz sits down with Dr. Mic...
Dec 09, 20090
Host: Jason Birnholz, MD Host Dr. Jason Birnholz reports from the Radiological Society of North America's 95th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, which took place November 29th through December 6th in Chicago. In this segment, he speaks with Dr. Wendie Berg, from Johns Hopkins University, about early detection and breast cancer, and Dr. Alexis Kelekis, assistant professor of radiology at the University of Athens, about percutaneous disc decompression treatment for herniated disc....
Dec 09, 20090
Host: Mark Chyna, MD The American Heart Association Scientific Sessions took place Nov. 14 to 18 in Orlando, Florida, and attracted more than 20,000 attendees from around the world. Listen here for highlights from groundbreaking research presented at the meeting in both basic and clinical science.
Dec 04, 20090
Host: Mark Chyna, MD Listen to highlights from research presented at the American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology's 2009 annual meeting. The meeting took place November 5th through the 10th, 2009, in Miami Beach, Florida.
Nov 25, 20090
Host: Mark Chyna, MD Tune in for highlights from CHEST 2009, which took place October 31 through November 5th, in San Diego, California.
Nov 20, 20090
Host: Mark Chyna, MD Tune in to hear news and research from the Infectious Diseases Society of America's 47th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.
Nov 13, 20090
Host: Mark Chyna, MD Tune in for highlights from the conference floor, at the most recent American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference and Exhibition. This year's meeting took place October 17th through the 20th, 2009, in Washington, DC.
Oct 30, 20090
