PodMed – Week of February 6, 2017
This week’s topics include heart problems and e-cigarettes, aortic valve replacement, the health impact of low socioeconomic status, and real life lung cancer screening data. Program notes: 0:33 Risk for premature death 1:33 Low SES more important than most other risk factors 2:34 Strengthen local communities 2:57 e-cigarettes and cardiovascular risk factors 3:58 Measured sympathetic […] (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News - February 3, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elizabeth Tracey Johns Hopkins Medicine Tags: All Podcasts Cancer Heart And Vascular Patient Care PodMed Smoking Surgery Source Type: podcasts

PodMed – Week of January 30, 2017
This week’s topics include at home sleep studies, an antibody for C.difficile infection, using big data to examine medical devices, and language concordance and type 2 diabetes control. Program notes: 0:35 Treatment of C. difficile 1:35 Antitoxin antibody 2:32 Phase III trial 2:55 Post market surveillance data of devices 3:55 Vascular closure devices 4:50 Registry […] (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News - January 27, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elizabeth Tracey Johns Hopkins Medicine Tags: All Podcasts Critical care medicine Heart And Vascular Infectious diseases PodMed Sleep Source Type: podcasts

PodMed – Week of January 23, 2017
This week’s topics include coronary calcium scans and hypertension, a look at tonsillectomy, asthma in adults, and diabetes in China. Program notes: 0:32 High blood pressure and calcium scores 1:32 Traditional risk factors plus scan 2:26 Asthma in adults 3:28 A third didn’t have it 4:28 If controlled test again 5:00 Diabetes in China 6:01 […] (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News - January 20, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elizabeth Tracey Johns Hopkins Medicine Tags: All Podcasts Diabetes Heart And Vascular High Blood Pressure Pediatrics PodMed Respiratory Disorders Source Type: podcasts

PodMed – Week of January 16, 2017
This week’s topics include alcohol abuse and CVD, gun violence in adolescents, social networks and gun violence, and weekend warriors. Program notes: 0:34 Weekend warriors 1:34 Compared to sedentary, they did have a reduction in mortality 2:32 For those who can’t do daily 3:00 Is gun violence contagious? 4:00 Looked at relationships 5:00 Now we […] (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News - January 13, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elizabeth Tracey Tags: Alcohol And Drug Abuse All Podcasts exercise Mental health PodMed Source Type: podcasts

PodMed – Week of January 9, 2017
This week’s topics include managing earwax, metformin and other diseases, atypical antipsychotics in palliative care, and firearm purchase without a background check. Program notes: 0:51 Managing ear wax 1:51 Industry relative to removal 2:53 Putting cotton swabs not good 3:31 Metformin use and comorbidities 4:31 Does metformin increase or decrease mortality? 5:34 Firearm purchase without […] (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News - January 6, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elizabeth Tracey Johns Hopkins Medicine Tags: All Podcasts Chronic Disease Death and Dying Diabetes Geriatrics Mental health PodMed Source Type: podcasts

PodMed – Week of January 2, 2017
This week’s topics include a review of sugar recommendations, preventing readmissions to the hospital, benefits of fish oil in pregnancy, and a look at healthcare spending. Program notes: 0:31 A look at sugar recommendations 1:30 Identified nine guidelines 2:30 All point to reducing sugar intake 3:20 Fish oil supplementation in pregnancy and asthma 4:20 Increase […] (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News - December 30, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elizabeth Tracey Johns Hopkins Medicine Tags: All Podcasts Diet Patient Care Pediatrics PodMed Pregnancy Source Type: podcasts

PodMed – Week of December 26, 2016
This week’s topics include the benefits of the Mediterranean diet, choice of underwear color, aging wine, and keeping Brussels sprouts green. Program notes: 0:35 Annual fun recording 1:35 Color prominent in underwear choice 2:32 Women prefer red 3:01 Brussels sprouts aging 4:01 Exposed to white blue light 4:42 Aging wine 5:42 Do eight experiments over […] (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News - December 23, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elizabeth Tracey Johns Hopkins Medicine Tags: All Podcasts Diet PodMed Source Type: podcasts

PodMed – Week of December 19, 2016
This week’s topics include statins and Alzheimer’s, teen substance use, national mortality data, and psychiatric drug use in American adults. Program notes: 0:33 Cause specific mortality in the US 1:35 At over 80 million deaths 2:32 Not terribly surprising to see risk factors 3:00 How many US adults take a psychiatric drugs 4:01 Only 9% […] (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News - December 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elizabeth Tracey Johns Hopkins Medicine Tags: Alcohol And Drug Abuse All Podcasts Alzheimer's Disease And Dementia Death and Dying Geriatrics Mental health PodMed Prevention Source Type: podcasts

PodMed – Week of December 12, 2016
This week's topics include a biomarker for Parkinson’s disease, therapy for blood clots after casting or knee arthroscopy, avoiding sickle cell crises, and CABG versus stunting. Program notes: 0:34 A biomarker for Parkinson’s disease 1:31 Use as a seed to accumulate misfolded protein 2:35 Utility in the face of no intervention? 3:31 Blood rather than CSF? […] (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News - December 9, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elizabeth Tracey Johns Hopkins Medicine Tags: All Podcasts Heart And Vascular Joint Surgery Neurology And Neurosurgery PodMed Surgical Care Source Type: podcasts

PodMed – Week of December 5, 2016
This week’s topics include frailty and postoperative risk, smoking, age and myocardial infarction, sports and cardiovascular mortality, and artificial intelligence and diabetic retinopathy. Program notes: 0:37 AI and diabetic retinopathy 1:37 Showed over 60,000 images to a computer 2:37 Device takes a picture and computer evaluates 3:23 Presurgical assessment of frailty 4:24 Three or four […] (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News - December 2, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elizabeth Tracey Johns Hopkins Medicine Tags: All Podcasts exercise Eye Care Geriatrics Heart And Vascular PodMed Surgery Surgical Care Source Type: podcasts

PodMed – Week of November 28, 2016
Blood pressure lowering meds and fracture, LASIK surgery outcomes, treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysm, and measles and mumps outbreaks. Program notes: 0:33 LASIK outcomes 1:33 Glares or haloes after surgery 2:31 Three or four times more likely to complain online 3:10 Measles and mumps outbreaks 4:10 Much higher than previously considered 5:10 Pertussis and whooping […] (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News - November 28, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elizabeth Tracey Johns Hopkins Medicine Tags: All Podcasts Eye Care Heart And Vascular Infectious diseases Patient Care PodMed Source Type: podcasts

PodMed – Week of November 21, 2016
This week’s topics include an alternative to statins, which vessel to use for bypass, NSAID risk, and genes versus lifestyle with regard to cardiovascular disease. Program notes: 0:48 Heart risk of NSAIDs 1:45 About 2.5% experienced heart attack, stroke 2:42 Short term lose dose use is reassuring 3:03 What vessels to use for bypass 4:03 […] (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News - November 18, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elizabeth Tracey Johns Hopkins Medicine Tags: All Podcasts Chronic Disease Genetics Heart And Vascular Pain And Pain Relief PodMed Surgery Source Type: podcasts

PodMed – Week of November 14, 2016
This week’s topics include a new tool for predicting cardiovascular event risk, iPads for amblyopia, an antibody for non-small cell lung cancer, and high dose statins. Program notes: 0:42 Call out to a listener 1:30 Best way to treat lazy eye 2:30 Using Apple games that require both eyes 3:32 Only effective if child uses […] (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News - November 11, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elizabeth Tracey Johns Hopkins Medicine Tags: All Podcasts Cancer Heart And Vascular Pediatrics PodMed Source Type: podcasts

PodMed – Week of November 7, 2016
This week’s topics include transfusion outcomes in old versus new blood, use of tranexemic acid during surgery, bystander use of defibrillators, and bypass surgery outcomes on stopped versus beating hearts. Program notes: 0:45 Bystander use of defibrillators 1:42 About 10% received defibrillation 2:45 People need to be aware of where devices are 3:25 On- or […] (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News - November 4, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elizabeth Tracey Tags: All Podcasts Critical care medicine Heart And Vascular Patient Safety PodMed Surgery Source Type: podcasts

PodMed – Week of October 31, 2016
This week’s topics include state reckoning of smoking and cancer, promoting breastfeeding, testing for familial hypercholesterolemia, and supplemental oxygen in moderate COPD. Program notes: 0:40 State of the Union with regard to smoking 1:40 40% in Arkansas 2:40 Ban smoking in public places 3:20 Breastfeeding promotion 4:23 System level didn’t help 5:01 Familial hypercholesterolemia 6:01 […] (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News - October 28, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elizabeth Tracey Johns Hopkins Medicine Tags: All Podcasts Heart And Vascular Pediatrics PodMed Respiratory Disorders Smoking Source Type: podcasts