Bempedoic Acid in Statin-Intolerant Patients
Bempedoic acid is an effective option for some statin-intolerant patients with an elevated predicted risk of cardiovascular events. However, as JAMA Executive Editor Gregory Curfman, MD, discusses with editorialist Dhruv S. Kazi, MD, MSc, MS, bempedoic acid should not be considered a substitute for statins, which remain the first-line therapy for primary prevention. Related Content: Bempedoic Acid for Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Events in Statin-Intolerant Patients Bempedoic Acid for High-Risk Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease (Source: JAMA Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - July 11, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts

Diabetes Core Update – July 2023
Diabetes Core Update is a monthly podcast that presents and discusses the latest clinically relevant articles from the American Diabetes Association’s four science and medical journals – Diabetes, Diabetes Care, Clinical Diabetes, and Diabetes Spectrum. Each episode is approximately 25 minutes long and presents 5-6 recently published articles from ADA journals. Intended for practicing physicians and health care professionals, Diabetes Core Update discusses how the latest research and information published in journals of the American Diabetes Association are relevant to clinical practice and can be applied in a treatmen...
Source: Diabetes Core Update - June 30, 2023 Category: Endocrinology Authors: American Diabetes Association Source Type: podcasts

JAMA Cardiology : Percutaneous Microaxial Left Ventricular Assist Device for Patients With Cardiogenic Shock
Interview with Robert W. Yeh, MD, MSc, author of Comparative Effectiveness of Percutaneous Microaxial Left Ventricular Assist Device vs Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump or No Mechanical Circulatory Support in Patients With Cardiogenic Shock, and David J. Cohen, MD, MSc, and Manesh R. Patel, MD, authors of Evidence Generation for Novel Cardiovascular Devices—Putting the Horse Back in Front of the Cart. Hosted by Ajay J. Kirtane, MD, SM. Related Content: Comparative Effectiveness of Percutaneous Microaxial Left Ventricular Assist Device vs Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump or No Mechanical Circulatory Support in Patients With Cardiogenic...
Source: JAMA Specialty Journals Author Interviews - June 21, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: The JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts

Diabetes Core Update – June 2023
Diabetes Core Update is a monthly podcast that presents and discusses the latest clinically relevant articles from the American Diabetes Association’s four science and medical journals – Diabetes, Diabetes Care, Clinical Diabetes, and Diabetes Spectrum. Each episode is approximately 25 minutes long and presents 5-6 recently published articles from ADA journals. Intended for practicing physicians and health care professionals, Diabetes Core Update d     iscusses how the latest research and information published in journals of the American Diabetes Association are relevant to clinical practice and can be applied in a...
Source: Diabetes Core Update - June 8, 2023 Category: Endocrinology Authors: American Diabetes Association Source Type: podcasts

SCCM Pod-481: Everything You Need to Know About Critical Care Ultrasound
For more than 10 years, the Society of Critical Care Medicine has offered an in-person critical care ultrasound course that spanned two days, interspersing lectures with interactive training. This format has now been replaced by a hybrid format, allowing more countries to host the course, virtually or in person, to ensure that healthcare professionals continue to receive optimized ultrasound training and education. Diane C. McLaughlin, DNP, AGACNP-BC, CCRN, FCCM, was joined by Sarah E. Bain, MD, at the 2023 Critical Care Congress to discuss the critical care ultrasound course, how it has evolved, and how it is expanding ar...
Source: SCCM PodCast - iCritical Care - June 7, 2023 Category: Intensive Care Authors: The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) Tags: Medicine Source Type: podcasts

Diabetes Core Update – May 2023
Diabetes Core Update is a monthly podcast that presents and discusses the latest clinically relevant articles from the American Diabetes Association’s four science and medical journals – Diabetes, Diabetes Care, Clinical Diabetes, and Diabetes Spectrum. Each episode is approximately 25 minutes long and presents 5-6 recently published articles from ADA journals. Intended for practicing physicians and health care professionals, Diabetes Core Update discusses how the latest research and information published in journals of the American Diabetes Association are relevant to clinical practice and can be applied in a treatmen...
Source: Diabetes Core Update - April 26, 2023 Category: Endocrinology Authors: American Diabetes Association Source Type: podcasts

Coordinated Care to Optimize Treatment in Patients With Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease, Panitumumab vs Bevacizumab Added to Chemotherapy for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer, USPSTF Recommendation on Screening for Skin Cancer, and more
Editor’s Summary by Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, Editor in Chief of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, for the April 18, 2023, issue. Related Content: Audio Highlights (Source: JAMA: This Week's Audio Commentary)
Source: JAMA: This Week's Audio Commentary - April 18, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts

TWiV 996: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses how antibiotics don’t reduce risk of death from viral respiratory infections, norovirus infections continue to rise in the US, ABO blood types and SARS-CoV-2 infection assessed using seroprevalence data in a large population-based sample, maternal third dose of BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine and risk of infant COVID-19 hospitalization, association of treatment with Nirmatrelvir and the risk of Post–COVID-19 condition, mechanically ventilated patients with COVID-19 had a higher chance of in-hospital death if treated with high-flow nasal cannula oxygen before intubation, high-f...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - April 1, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts

The Uncertain Future of the Determination of Brain Death
JAMA Executive Editor Greg Curfman, MD, speaks with Robert D. Truog, MD, MA, director of the Harvard Center for Bioethics, who describes the 2 approaches to the determination of death (cardiovascular death and brain death) and discusses the possibility that the determination of brain death may soon undergo substantial change, with important implications for organ transplantation. Related Content: The Uncertain Future of the Determination of Brain Death (Source: JAMA Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Author Interviews - March 29, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts

JAMA Neurology : Association of Dementia Risk With Focal Epilepsy and Modifiable Cardiovascular Risk Factors
Interview with Xin You Tai, MD, author of Association of Dementia Risk With Focal Epilepsy and Modifiable Cardiovascular Risk Factors. Hosted by Cynthia E. Armand, MD. Related Content: Association of Dementia Risk With Focal Epilepsy and Modifiable Cardiovascular Risk Factors (Source: JAMA Specialty Journals Author Interviews)
Source: JAMA Specialty Journals Author Interviews - March 27, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: The JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts

Higher-Dose Ivermectin for Outpatients With COVID-19, Trends in Cardiovascular Risk Factor Prevalence and Control in US Adults, Review of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, and more
Editor's Summary by Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, Editor in Chief of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, for the March 21, 2023 issue. (Source: JAMA: This Week's Audio Commentary)
Source: JAMA: This Week's Audio Commentary - March 21, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts

TWiV 990: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update Dr. Griffin discusses confronting the evolution and expansion of anti-vaccine activism in the USA in the COVID-19 era, the effectiveness of maternal Influenza vaccination in Peru, characteristics and predictors of persistent symptoms post-COVID-19 in children and young people, parental nonadherence to health policy recommendations for prevention of COVID-19 transmission among children, community-onset bacterial coinfection in children critically ill with SARS-CoV-2 infection, bivalent booster effectiveness against severe COVID-19 outcomes in Finland, viral kinetics of sequential SARS-CoV-2 inf...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - March 11, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts

TWiV 986: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update Dr. Griffin discusses the efficacy and safety of two RSV vaccines in older adults, health care vaccine mandate remains as some push for an end, past SARS-CoV-2 infection protection against re-infection, a third vaccine dose equalizes the levels of effectiveness and immunogenicity of heterologous or homologous COVID-19 vaccine regimens, Sotrovimab retains activity against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant BQ.1.1 in a non-human primate model, effect of higher-dose Ivermectin for 6 Days vs placebo on time to sustained recovery in outpatients with COVID-19, viral burden rebound in hospitalized patients ...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - February 25, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts

Blood pressure targets in people with cardiovascular disease
Many people with heart or vascular problems also have high blood pressure, and the latest update of the Cochrane Review of using blood pressure targets in their treatment was published in November 2022. Here ' s lead author, Luis Carlos Saiz from the Navarre Health Service in Pamplona Spain, to tell us about the review and its latest findings. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - January 10, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts

TWiV 972: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update Dr. Griffin discusses the infectiousness of SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections and reinfections during the Omicron wave, virological characteristics of the SARS-CoV-2 XBB variant derived from recombination of two Omicron subvariants, antibody evasion properties of rising SARS-CoV-2 BQ and XBB subvariants, comparative effectiveness of third doses of mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines in US veterans, time to negative PCR conversion among high-risk patients with mild-to-moderate Omicron BA.1 and BA.2 COVID-19 treated by Sotrovimab or Nirmatrelvir, COVID drug Paxlovid was hailed as a game-changer,...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - January 7, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts