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PodMed is a weekly podcast looking at the top medical stories of the week for people who want to become informed participants in their own health care. With Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine, and Rick Lange M.D., professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins and vice chairman of medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
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| This week’s topics include re-excision for breast cancer, a new drug for uterine fibroids, blood pressure readings in both arms, and surviving burns in kids. Program notes: 0:40 Blood pressure measurement in both arms 1:45 Very low tech assessment 2:19 Burn size in children and survival 3:17 Critical burn size now 62% 4:18 Doesn’t inform us about adult survival 4:50 A new drug for uterine fibroids 5:49 Luprolide exists but many side effects 6:47 Re-excision for breast cancer 7:47 If the margin was less than 1mm, re-excision more common 8:50 Need to standardize 10:15 End | ||
| This week’s topics include heart risk from fried foods, Avastin and breast cancer, proton pump inhibitors in childhood asthma, and PFCs and immune compromise. Program notes: 0:23 Fried foods and heart risk 1:24 Took over 40,000 people and followed them 2:26 Three of four studies failed to establish risk 2:44 PPIs in children with asthma 3:43 Use of PPI didn’t help asthma 4:58 PFCs and compromised immunity 5:58 Measured PFCs and antibody response to vaccines 6:56 No cause and effect relationship 7:15 Avastin and breast cancer 8:12 5 or 6% reduction in pathologic evidence of disease 9:13 Very expensive therapy and not much evidence of efficacy 10:13 End | ||
| This week’s topics include a plateau in our national obesity epidemic, overdone medical testing, appropriate intervals for osteoporosis screening, and the dangers of sleep apnea in women. Program notes: 0:32 Obesity trends 1:30 No increase since 2007-2008 2:30 Multiple factors involved 2:40 Screening tests and appropriate use 3:40 Physicians need to ask themselves why they’re ordering 4:37 People come in with ideas of what they want 5:17 Appropriate interval for osteoporosis screening 6:15 Those with low or nonexistent bone thinning 6:48 Cardiovascular mortality in women with sleep apnea 7:42 Increased risk by 350% over baseline 8:42 Work through treatment if possible 9:42 End | ||
| Program notes: 0:18 Special issue of the Lancet on illicit drug use 1:07 Heroin, cocaine, and marijuana use 2:01 Geographic distribution of drugs 3:01 Cultural variations, supply 4:10 Disability adjusted years of life lost 5:13 Screening and prevention programs have small effects 6:23 Publication of research on flu virus 7:18 Help physicians and public health officials 8:10 I would err on the side of making information known 9:10 Would be possible to manipulate the virus 10:25 End | ||
| This week’s topics include long distance running and cardiac death, marijuana smoking and lung function, dangers of a new blood thinning agent, and dementia and hospitalizations. Program notes: 0:32 Sudden cardiac death and long distance running 1:30 71% of heart attacks were fatal 2:27 Those who survived had bystander CPR largely 2:55 Marijuana smoking and lung function 3:53 Most commonly used drug in US 4:52 There is a clinical use 5:17 Dementia and hospitalization 6:17 78% more likely to be hospitalized 7:16 Looking for them in demented people much harder 7:39 Dabigatran for blood thinning 8:30 One in 400-500 patients at heart risk 9:30 Post-marketing surveillance needed 10:30 End | ||
| This week’s topics include what to do about neck pain, cardiovascular risk reduction with obesity surgery, a study looking at studies, and the global problem of drug abuse. Program notes: 0:24 Benefits of bariatric surgery 1:21 Was associated with a reduction in mortality and strokes and heart attacks 2:21 Neck pain 3:21 12 weeks of spinal manipulation, home exercise, or medication 4:22 May prefer one of these three options 4:38 Global problem of drug abuse 5:35 Only data on major drugs of abuse 6:35 Health consequences of dependence 7:36 A study on studies 8:31 At end of 51 months a third unpublished 9:31 The expectation is results will be available 10:11 End | ||
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