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PodMed – Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts

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10 episodes
Updated Oct 27, 2017

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PodMed – Week of October 30, 2017
This week’s topics include health and wealth, gun show sales and gun injury, management of epilepsy, and outcomes relative to robotic surgery. Program notes: 0:34 Today is last PodMed 1:19 Epilepsy management 2:19 Not a single type of surgery 3:16 … PodMed – Week of October 30, 2017 Read More »
Oct 27, 2017 · 10 min
PodMed – Week of October 20, 2017
This week’s topics include Medicare spending on frail elderly, resorbable stents, men with HPV, and procalcitonin to assess antibiotic need. Program notes: 0:41 Looking at procalcitonin to determine antibiotic use 1:42 Improve or worsen survival 2:40 Point of care testing … PodMed – Week of October 20, 2017 Read More »
Oct 20, 2017 · 10 min
PodMed – Week of October 16, 2017
This week’s topics include predicting mortality in those with congestive heart failure, bystander CPR impact, best management of stable COPD, and NOACs and bleeding risk. Program notes: 0:50 NOACs and bleeding risk 1:51 Also taking other medicines increased risk 2:49 … PodMed – Week of October 16, 2017 Read More »
Oct 13, 2017 · 10 min
PodMed – Week of October 9, 2017
This week’s topics include how the Zika virus changed, outcomes after surgery and health literacy, e-cigarettes and healthcare costs, and a reaction to tattooing. Program notes: 0:36 Case report of an outcome after a tattoo 1:32 Reaction to the tattoo … PodMed – Week of October 9, 2017 Read More »
Oct 6, 2017 · 10 min
PodMed – Week of October 2, 2017
This week’s topics include aspirin discontinuation risks, HIV in those 50 and older, big data and chronic lung disease, and genetic testing and warfarin use. Program notes: 0:34 Genetic testing and warfarin dosing 1:35 Looked at genetics to determine 2:33 … PodMed – Week of October 2, 2017 Read More »
Sep 29, 2017 · 10 min
PodMed – Week of September 25, 2017
This week’s topics include physician assisted suicide, preventing infection post-C-section in obese women, 12 year outcomes of bariatric surgery, and death among triathletes. Program notes: 0:46 Triathlon events and death 1:43 Half with previously unknown cardiac problems 2:43 Trouble in … PodMed – Week of September 25, 2017 Read More »
Sep 22, 2017 · 10 min
PodMed – Week of September 18, 2017
This week’s topics include hospital factors relative to readmission, hormone therapy, lymph node dissection in breast cancer, and the cost of bringing a new drug to market. Program notes: 0:32 Cost of R and D versus profit in new drugs … PodMed – Week of September 18, 2017 Read More »
Sep 15, 2017 · 10 min
PodMed – Week of September 11, 2017
This week’s topics include a new antibody for asthma, early treatment in COPD, mumps vaccine to curtail an outbreak, and medical exemptions from routine vaccinations. Program notes: 0:38 Avoiding vaccines with medical exemptions 1:38 More people who are vaccinated the … PodMed – Week of September 11, 2017 Read More »
Sep 7, 2017 · 10 min
PodMed – Week of September 4, 2017
This week’s topics include the right medications for a subset of people with heart disease, the PURE study, inflammation and heart disease, and the impact of neighborhoods on cardiovascular disease. Program notes: 0:47 PURE study 1:47 Fats and animal protein … PodMed – Week of September 4, 2017 Read More »
Sep 1, 2017 · 10 min
PodMed – Week of August 28, 2017
This week’s topics include advance directive impact, approval of high risk medical devices by FDA, maintenance of certification for physicians, and cardiovascular disease impact of a new agent for type 2 diabetes. Program notes: 0:37 Positive impact of advance directives … PodMed – Week of August 28, 2017 Read More »
Aug 24, 2017 · 10 min