Medscape Gastroenterology Podcast

Eric Topol speaks with author Siddhartha Mukherjee about his latest book, The Laws of Medicine, and how uncertainty, imperfections, priors, outliers, and biases affect these laws.

What goes in your stomach can influence countless disorders, from cancer to asthma. Dr David Johnson surveys the latest data underlining the ever-increasing importance of a low-fat, high-fiber diet.

Eric Topol interviews Eric Schadt on how he turned math into medicine, and his need for speed both at and outside of work.

Dr Paget discusses the potential impact of biosimilars in rheumatology and some of the unanswered questions about their use.

Eric Topol talks with New Yorker columnist and best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell on how best to tell the story of medicine.

Art Caplan and obesity expert Judith Korner discuss the science behind emerging strategies aimed at helping your patients lose weight.

Dr David Johnson explains why he does not share the news media's concern about proton pump inhibitors and cardiovascular risk.

In a moving story, Dr Eunice Lee reveals how a prenatal genetic test led to a cancer diagnosis and saved her life.

Chronic hoarseness, throat clearing, and other vocal behaviors don't always signal reflux disease. Think habituation, says Dr David Johnson, and help the patient learn to break the harmful cycle.

Martin Blaser talks with Eric Topol about how the microbiome influences health and disease, as well as what role the overuse of antibiotics may have played in the obesity epidemic.