Whenever the topic of establishing minimally invasive hysteroscopic surgery in the office setting comes up, many physicians ask why and how. Leveraging decades of professional experience, this activity answers those questions by reviewing the necessary training and staff requirements, the procedures that are most beneficial for your patients, the path to accruing a patient and referral base, and most importantly, maintaining patient safety while ensuring pain control with optimal outcomes.

About 30% of preterm labor spontaneously resolves and 50% of patients hospitalized for preterm labor actually give birth at term. Clinicians are left with the task to effectively assess women who are at risk for prenatal delivery in order to prevent preterm labor and reduce perinatal morbidity and mortality. In this activity, clinicians will learn practical strategies combining patient history, fetal fibronectin (fFN) levels, and ultrasonography imaging results to assess patient risks for preterm delivery, in order to provide adequate counseling regarding prenatal care and lifestyle changes.

To download the algorithms mentioned in this activity, click here.1

1. McCue, B, Torbenson, VE. Fetal fibronectin: The benefits of a high negative predictive value in management of preterm labor.Contemp Ob Gyn. 2017;62(10)(suppl):1-6

The treatment armamentarium for multiple myeloma (MM) has expanded significantly in recent years, with 6 new agents or indications approved by the US Food & Drug Administration since 2015. Treatment options now include immunomodulatory drugs, proteasome inhibitors, a histone deacetylase inhibitor, and immunotherapies, making clinical decisions much more complex. Additionally, best practices and consensus guidelines, such as those from the National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®) and International Myeloma Working Group (IMWG), are constantly evolving as new data are published. Approval of these new agents, revision of response criteria, and implementation of new approaches to risk assessment and monitoring residual disease are causing significant changes in the management of MM.

This activity will review areas of current controversy and topics for which consensus is not yet established, including when to initiate treatment, determining transplant eligibility, high-risk disease, duration of maintenance therapy, sequencing newly approved drugs, and choice of treatment at relapse.

Discover how hearing loss in the US is growing and how it affects young and older people alike. Protect your patients' hearing with these tips and resources in an increasingly noisy world from Dr. John Iskander and Dr. William Murphy in this session of Beyond the Data.

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In this session of Beyond the Data carrying forward ideas discussed at CDC's Public Health Grand Rounds, Dr. Phoebe Thorpe speaks with Dr. Bobbi Pritt, Director of the Clinical Parasitology Laboratory and Co-Director of Vector-borne Diseases Laboratory Services at the Mayo Clinic. The two expand on Dr. Pritt's lecture focusing on advances in diagnosing tickborne diseases.