Dr. Mark Kris highlights exciting studies in lung cancer to be presented at ASCO 2014: new drugs to watch, surrogate endpoints, and a potentially practice-changing abstract on brain metastases.

A key principle is that experiencing the symptoms of asthma during pregnancy is worse than the potential side effects of asthma medications.

What did investigators find when they tested 3 protocol-based approaches to treating septic shock? Is there a clear winner?

The Code of Medical Ethics promulgated by the American Medical Association is the underpinning for ethical physician behavior. Are you an adherent?

Even as an advisory panel recommends against national Medicare coverage of lung cancer screening, Dr. Mark Kris stresses the number of lives saved by this well-evidenced means of early detection.

Dr. Mark Kris reports on a study that indicates that even minimal pleural effusions are important prognostic factors in patients with non-small cell lung cancer, especially in early-stage disease.

Medscape Editor-in-Chief Eric J. Topol, MD, talks with Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD, PhD, about his career as a researcher and doctor, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and the topic for his next book.

Central venous pressure has been used as a marker for resuscitation in septic patients for years, but 2 recent meta-analyses suggest that there may be better methods to gauge fluid responsiveness.

What are the takeaways for practicing clinicians from a recent study on targeted temperature management after cardiac arrest?

A drug to treat drug-resistant TB is a welcome advance, but there are important caveats to its use.