Pearls
Speakers at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar's Grand Rounds, coordinated by the Division of Continuing Professional Development, share their 'pearls of wisdom' about their chosen field of interest with us.
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One in two women and one in four men over the age of 50 will suffer a fracture with minimal trauma from age-related deteriorated to bone structure , and for hip fracture the outcomes are severe, with high first-year mortality in women of 12.8% and 26.6% in men...
The kidneys are essential organs for survival in humans because they are involved in several important physiologic functions in the body. These functions include filtering and removal of toxins from...
February is Heart Month and today I am going to be talking about one of the most common cardiovascular diseases, heart failure...
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is the leading cause of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end stage kidney disease (ESKD) worldwide. Since the early 2000’s there have been no new interventions...
Palliative care is a form of specialized medical care for individuals with serious and potentially life-threatening, or life-limiting illness and disease and is best provided early1 in the clinical course concurrent with disease modifying treatments...
Obesity is a chronic, relapsing, multifactorial neurobehavioral disease that requires multi-disciplinary, individualized, long-term management...
The annual epidemic influenza illness is caused by influenza viruses type A and B. Isolated from humans as early as the 1930s, these viruses produce a contagious respiratory infection...
Appropriate use of antibiotics is increasingly becoming a top priority in everyday practice as more and more healthcare systems adopt robust stewardship programs...
Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a rare and aggressive disease – while the incidence is only 2-4% of all breast cancers in the United States...
Health misinformation has been around for centuries and is found across topics including outbreaks, chronic conditions, and treatments...