Mayo Clinic Q&A: COVID-19 news update

Host: Darryl S. Chutka, M.D. Guests: Jae K. Oh, M.D., Tahir S. Kafil, M.D. Diastolic heart failure is also known as heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. Although we don’t hear the term all that often, it actually represents a fairly large percentage of all cases of hea ...  Show more

Host: Darryl S. Chutka, M.D. Guest: Balaji Tamarappoo, M.D., Ph.D. With advances in oncology, patients are living longer than ever following a diagnosis of cancer. Newer treatments have dramatically improved survival. However, we’re also seeing an increasing number of cancer surv ...  Show more

Last week, researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory released alarming news: At least one variant of the virus that causes Covid-19 had significantly mutated to become more contagious. If true, this would have major implications. A new variant could, for example, hamper e ...  Show more

Infectious disease experts Adam Lauring, MD, PhD, and Carlos del Rio, MD, join JAMA Associate Editor Preeti Malani, MD, MSJ, for a discussion of the newly emerged Omicron variant, the potential for a 2021-2022 "twindemic" with flu, and the latest COVID-19 clinical updates. Rec ...

How reliable are at-home COVID-19 tests? Are there shortcomings to “testing out” of vaccine mandates? IDSA members Dial Hewlett, MD, FIDSA of the Westchester County Health Department and Nira Pollock, MD, FIDSA of Boston Children’s Hospital join us to discuss the latest on COVID- ...  Show more

HIV stellt uns auch heute noch vor große Herausforderungen in der Versorgung. Wann müssen wir an einen Test denken? Und gibt es eine Chance auf Heilung?