Richard C. Wender, MD, Alumni Professor and Chair, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, presented on Cancer Screening, and Caroline M. Apovian, MD, Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine, Director, Center for Nutrition and Weight Management, and Director, Clinical Research of, Obesity Research Center of Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, presented on Risks and Benefits of Folic Acid Fortification.

Glendale, CA (PRWEB) April 17, 2013

The goals of this program are to improve cancer screening and to review the benefits and risks of folic acid (FA) fortification. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1. Implement screening protocols for cervical cancer.

2. Offer screening for prostate cancer using shared decision making.

3. Identify patients eligible for screening for lung cancer.

4. Summarize the role of folate in one-carbon, nucleic acid, and amino acid metabolism.

5. Advise patients on the risks and benefits of folic acid fortification.

The original programs were presented by Robert A. Wiebe, MD, Clinical Professor, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, and Lalit Bajaj, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, and Research Director, Section of Emergency Medicine, Childrens Hospital, Denver.

Audio-Digest Foundation, the largest independent publisher of Continuing Medical Education in the world, records over 10,000 hours of lectures every year in anesthesiology, emergency medicine, family practice, gastroenterology, general surgery, internal medicine, neurology, obstetrics/gynecology, oncology, ophthalmology, orthopaedics, otolaryngology, pediatrics, psychology, and urology, by the leading medical researchers at the top laboratories, universities, and institutions.

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