Obesity Is a Crisis, Yet New Weight Loss Drugs Are Underused
There ' s no shortage of options, and patients are asking for help. So why are we still not using the new weight loss drugs to manage the obesity epidemic? (Source: Medscape Internal Medicine Podcast)
Source: Medscape Internal Medicine Podcast - December 8, 2017 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
How Hospitals Can Fight the Opioid Epidemic
Representatives of the Hospital for Special Surgery describe their successful three-part approach to helping patients and providers. (Source: Medscape Internal Medicine Podcast)
Source: Medscape Internal Medicine Podcast - November 2, 2017 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
Oct 13 Cardiology News
Noninvasive tests for chest pain evaluation, the obesity epidemic, the costs of cardiac device recalls, and DOAC-drug interactions are reviewed in this week ' s podcast. (Source: Medscape Cardiology Podcast)
Source: Medscape Cardiology Podcast - October 13, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
Ethical Malpractice in American Clinical Oncology
An epidemic of greed is sweeping through the field of oncology. We need to fix it NOW, says Dr Lundberg. (Source: Medscape Internal Medicine Podcast)
Source: Medscape Internal Medicine Podcast - August 23, 2017 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
Ethical Malpractice in American Clinical Oncology
An epidemic of greed is sweeping through the field of oncology. We need to fix it NOW, says Dr Lundberg. (Source: Medscape Pharmacists Podcast)
Source: Medscape Pharmacists Podcast - August 23, 2017 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
HPV Vaccination. Possible Prevention of an epidemic of Head and Neck Cancer
Direct from ASCO 2017<br />Highlights and New Approaches in Head and Neck Cancer
Author: cancergrace
Added: 08/09/2017 (Source: Oncology Tube)
Source: Oncology Tube - August 9, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: podcasts
Addressing the nation's opioid epidemic: July 27, 2017
Rebecca Cooney discusses the new National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report on opioids with members of the committee. (Source: Listen to The Lancet)
Source: Listen to The Lancet - July 28, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Lancet Source Type: podcasts
Research Summaries: Self-Control Protects Against Overweight Status in the Transition from Childhood to Adolescence
This study was a prospective longitudinal study that looked at nearly 850 children in a birth cohort, and measured their self control at age 9 and correlated it with their BMI at age 15.
Self-control at age 9 was operationalised using informant ratings by mother, father and teacher on the items related to self-control on the Social Skills Rating System (SSRS)questionnaire. Overweight status was established by classifying those with BMI z-scores falling above 85th percentile as overweight.
Other potential confounds like intelligence, pubertal status etc were also measured and used in the analysis.
The results showed tha...
Source: The Mouse Trap - July 28, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: Research Summaries Angela Duckworth self-control Source Type: podcasts
Diabetes Core Update - July 2017
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 15 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 26, 2017 Category: Endocrinology Authors: American Diabetes Association Source Type: podcasts
How to build a resillient health system
The 2014 west African Ebola epidemic shone a harsh light on the health systems of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. While decades of domestic and international investment had contributed to substantial progress on the Millennium Development Goals, national health systems remained weak and were unable to cope with the epidemic.
Margaret Kruk... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - June 8, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
How to build a resillient health system
The 2014 west African Ebola epidemic shone a harsh light on the health systems of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. While decades of domestic and international investment had contributed to substantial progress on the Millennium Development Goals, national health systems remained weak and were unable to cope with the epidemic.
Margaret Kruk associate professor of global health at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, joins us to discuss what makes a health system resilient, and how Liberia in particular has learned lessons from Ebola.
Read the full analysis:http://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j2323 (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - June 8, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
How to build a resillient health system
The 2014 west African Ebola epidemic shone a harsh light on the health systems of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. While decades of domestic and international investment had contributed to substantial progress on the Millennium Development Goals, national health systems remained weak and were unable to cope with the epidemic.
Margaret Kruk associate professor of global health at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, joins us to discuss what makes a health system resilient, and how Liberia in particular has learned lessons from Ebola.
Read the full analysis:
http://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j2323 (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - June 8, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
