Dr. Andrew Greganti will review the clinical course of a patient who initially presented with a polymyalgia rheumatica syndrome and whose prolonged illness was complicated by a cardiomyopathy of unclear pathogenesis. Dr. Anil Gehi is an electrophysiologist in the UNC Center for Heart & Vascular Care specializing in pacemaker and defibrillator implantation, device extraction, catheter … Read more

The US is in the midst of an opioid overdose epidemic. Overdose deaths involving prescription opioids have quadrupled since 1999, and so have sales of these prescription drugs. Efforts to address the opioid epidemic have focused mainly on reducing non-medical opiate use. Overprescribing of opiate agents has led to a sharp increase in the prevalence … Read more