Medscape Transplantation Podcast

How is the FDA responding to actual and potential drug shortages?

Dr. John Marshall reflects on the progress made in the diagnosis and treatment of neuroendocrine pancreas cancer in the time since Steve Jobs’ diagnosis and the distance still needed to go to cure this disease.

Jeffrey Berns, MD, steps out of his comfort zone to talk about a recent paper that reported higher incomes among US PCPs and orthopaedists compared with their peers in other developed nations. He questions the numbers used and whether they are comparable.

Bioethicist Arthur Caplan, PhD, offers $10,000 if GOP presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann proves that taking the HPV vaccine for cervical cancer has led to "retardation," as she recently claimed.

An ethics expert says that patients who refuse to adhere to recommended care differ from those who want to but fall short of their good intentions. The way you deal with each could affect the results.

Some drugs that are currently on the market have never been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).