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 Identify the focus 3:30 Robotic surgery outcomes 4:30 Is it that much better? 5:31 Instruments […]

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 2:54 Stents that resorb 3:52 First approved in Europe in 2011 4:50 Post marketing surveillance […]

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 Physicians need to know 3:18 Managing people with COPD 4:21 So many more people with […]

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 ink but not cancer 2:32 Not cancer just a reaction 2:46 Mutations in the Zika […]

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 Other agents for blood thinning 3:01 Use of big data and chronic lung disease 4:01 […]

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 water harder to resuscitate 3:36 Physician assisted suicide 4:36 In Oregon data gathered 5:36 Should […]

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 1:32 Took 7.3 years 2:35 Reaping in sales far outstrips R and D 3:32 R […]

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 less likely an outbreak 2:36 Total went down but others are gaming the system 3:23 […]

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 associated with lower mortality 2:47 Goes against years of research 3:31 Inflammation and CVD 4:32 […]

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 1:34 78% died in their chosen location 2:34 Achieving what the patient wants with regard […]