On Medical Grounds

We're talking vaccine development with the "Mother of DNA Vaccines," Dr. Margaret Liu. This episode takes a deep dive into how different types of vaccines work, how they are developed and what it takes to get approval, with a special focus on the COVID-19 vaccines. It's a must-listen episode for improving patient education on vaccines.

In Part 2 of RSV, The OTHER Respiratory Virus, we'll focus on the availability of diagnostic tools, developments on the horizon to protect against the virus and how RSV impacts older adults.

Lately, it seems that everything health-related is revolving around COVID-19, yet another respiratory virus that is commonly overlooked has raised concerns in the medical community.

Respiratory Syncytial Virus, or RSV, is on the rise across the United States and surging in some locations in the South – filling up pediatric hospital wards and posing a serious risk to the children and older adults that contract it.

This is the first of two episodes that will focus on RSV – the threat, the tools available to diagnose it, and developments on the horizon to protect against it.

Our two guests today will focus on the pediatric side of RSV.

A family devastated by a rare disease and a sister’s hope to find a cure.

In this episode of On Medical Grounds, host Dr. Jill Sellers interviews Heidi Edwards, founder of Sisters' Hope Foundation on her family’s personal struggle with Adult-Onset Leukoencephalopathy with Axonal Spheroids and Pigmented Glia, also known as ALSP.

Hear how the loss of four family members to this disease has turned Heidi into an advocate for research and funding to improve treatment options and moved her to create a community of support for other families facing this dire diagnosis.

UPDATE July 21, 2021:

Since recording this episode, we have an update on Holly. Holly was able to achieve the goal of seeing her son, Mason, graduate from high school and they celebrated his 19th birthday this summer. In addition, she also got to celebrate her nephew Braydon’s 13th birthday on July 19, 2021, before she passed on July 20, 2021. Holly was a fighter and did all she could to hold off the inevitable. Please keep this heartbroken family in your thoughts and visit www.sistershopefoundation.org to see how you can help.

What was going through hospital administrators’ minds as it became evident that COVID-19 was becoming a deadly global pandemic?

In this episode of On Medical Grounds, find out how Steve Edwards, president and CEO of Cox Health in Springfield, Missouri, leveraged lessons from the past, social media and international connections to prepare for COVID-19’s arrival in his community.

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Hyponatremia is one of the most common electrolyte disturbances that clinicians find in outpatient and inpatient settings. It can be easily detected with a basic metabolic profile test. But once discovered, how do you treat it?

Listen in as On Medical Grounds host Dr. Jill Sellers interviews Dr. Biff Palmer on diagnosing and treating hyponatremia and the effectiveness of conivaptan as a therapeutic strategy.

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Intravenous ibuprofen has emerged as an alternative to opioids for the management of peri- and post-operative pain.

Listen in as On Medical Grounds host, Dr. Jill Sellers interviews Dr. Stephen Southworth about a groundbreaking study on IV Ibuprofen and how the findings have changed the way he and his colleagues are managing pain in their orthopedic surgery patients.