The Curbsiders

The Curbsiders An Internal Medicine Podcast that interviews leading experts to provide listeners with clinical pearls to supercharge learning

10/09/2026

🏴‍☠️ Vascular Disease: The Silent Killer

Vascular disease can fly under the radar until serious complications arise. 🩸 How do we recognize the warning signs, identify who’s at risk, and intervene before it’s too late?

Tune in to episode 541 for high-yield clinical pearls to help you catch vascular disease before it catches your patients.

🎧 Listen now and feed your brain hole!
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🫀 #541 High Yield Infographic Alert: PREVENT Risk ScoreHow do you turn the new PREVENT risk score into a practical plan...
10/08/2026

🫀 #541 High Yield Infographic Alert: PREVENT Risk Score

How do you turn the new PREVENT risk score into a practical plan for cardiovascular risk reduction? Start with the numbers—but don’t stop there.

This week on The Curbsiders, Dr. Daniel Edmundowicz walks us through the 2026 Lipid Management Guidelines, including how to interpret PREVENT risk, when to consider risk enhancers and CAC scoring, and when it’s time to reach for lipid-lowering therapy.

And yes… healthy lifestyle is for everyone. 😉

🎧 Tune in to Curbsiders Ep #541 and get the full lowdown on keeping lipids where they should be: low.

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10/07/2026

🖼️ Reframing ‘Normal’ Cholesterol Levels

In Curbsiders Ep 541, Dr. Daniel Edmundowicz of Temple University walks us through the 2026 Lipid Management Guidelines and breaks down what clinicians need to know to keep lipids where they should be: low. 🩺📉

🫀 A Walk Through the 2026 Lipid Management GuidelinesHyperlipidemia is a major driver of cardiovascular disease—but we h...
10/05/2026

🫀 A Walk Through the 2026 Lipid Management Guidelines

Hyperlipidemia is a major driver of cardiovascular disease—but we have the tools to change the trajectory.

In Curbsiders Ep 541, Dr. Daniel Edmundowicz of Temple University walks us through the 2026 Lipid Management Guidelines and breaks down what clinicians need to know to keep lipids where they should be: low. 🩺📉

From risk assessment to treatment strategies, we’re making lipid management practical, high-yield, and easier to navigate.

🎧 Tune in to Episode 541 wherever you listen to podcasts.

👉 Head to thecurbsiders.com to listen and claim your CME!

10/05/2026

A little dark? Or just bad puns? 🙊

09/30/2026

Blood Test for Colon Cancer Screening 🩸

Recently updated guidelines for colorectal cancer screening contain recommendations on the use of blood tests for screening. Currently, only one test has FDA approval, a cell-free DNA (cfDNA) assay marketed as Shield. In a 2024 validation study, cfDNA was only 88% sensitive for cancer, and 13% sensitive for advanced adenomas. 🎙️

For more of our thoughts on this and many other hotcakes, tune into Curbsiders episode 540!
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09/30/2026

Removing Barriers to Ni****ne Replacement Therapy

Does the provision of varenicline samples by mail, with minimal guidance or instruction, facilitate smoking cessation among adults who smoke?

29 million adults in the United States smoke ci******es – a major, reversible cause of morbidity and mortality. Varenicline, the most effective pharmacotherapy for to***co cessation, is underprescribed. Whether providing access to this safe prescription medicine to adults who smoke improves cessation rates is unknown.

For more of our thoughts on this and many other hotcakes, tune into Curbsiders episode 540!
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🥞 HOTCAKES ARE SERVED! 🥞New episode, fresh off the griddle: #540 Hotcakes 🔥We’re serving up a stack of recent practice-...
09/28/2026

🥞 HOTCAKES ARE SERVED! 🥞

New episode, fresh off the griddle: #540 Hotcakes 🔥

We’re serving up a stack of recent practice-changing articles, including:

💊 Varenicline by mail for smoking cessation
🫀 Anticoagulation for intermediate-risk AF
🩺 CAC scores + PREVENT for ASCVD risk stratification
🩸 Blood testing for colorectal cancer
💊 A new oral PCSK9 inhibitor
…and more!

Fill your 🧠 brain hole with a delicious stack of evidence-based hotcakes.

🎧 Featuring Paul Williams, Rahul Ganatra & Matt Watto

👉 Listen to #540 at thecurbsiders.com and wherever you get your podcasts.

09/28/2026

Seems like we always strike out with these puns.

Low quality puns high quality episodes. We’ll be back Monday with a brand new hotcakes episode! 🥳

🧠 DIGEST 80: Statins in the Elderly & More!What’s new in medicine? Digest 80 is here with the latest clinical updates, i...
09/25/2026

🧠 DIGEST 80: Statins in the Elderly & More!

What’s new in medicine? Digest 80 is here with the latest clinical updates, including:

💊 Statins in older adults
🫁 Automated oxygen titration
🫘 Finerenone in CKD
📚 Plus more practice-changing updates you’ll want to know

Stay up to date without spending hours digging through the literature.

👉 Read Digest 80 and get the knowledge food at thecurbsiders.com

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