Shingrix: Is the Hype Justified?
Dr Paul Offit compares Shingrix with Zostavax ® and lays out the recommendations for the new vaccine. (Source: Medscape Infectious Disease Podcast)
Source: Medscape Infectious Disease Podcast - February 13, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
Lives Are Saved Even With a 'Less Effective' Vaccine
Dr Paul Offit explains the various ways the flu virus can mutate away from the strains in the vaccine, as it has in the 2017-2018 season. (Source: Medscape Infectious Disease Podcast)
Source: Medscape Infectious Disease Podcast - January 30, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
A Call for Early HIV Diagnosis
Increased routine and targeted HIV testing is needed to reduce diagnosis delays. (Source: Medscape Infectious Disease Podcast)
Source: Medscape Infectious Disease Podcast - January 29, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
A New Way ID Care Is Valued
Dr Paul Auwaerter urges infectious diseases clinicians to review and incorporate into their practice two new CPT codes for prolonged services without direct face-to-face patient contact. (Source: Medscape Infectious Disease Podcast)
Source: Medscape Infectious Disease Podcast - January 2, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
California Contagion: How to Control Severe Hepatitis A
Dr Paul Auwaerter discusses California ' s hepatitis A outbreak and the challenges of testing to avoid false-positives. (Source: Medscape Infectious Disease Podcast)
Source: Medscape Infectious Disease Podcast - December 14, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
Brucellosis: Patient History Is the Key
The symptoms are nonspecific, so patient history is critical to the identification of brucellosis. (Source: Medscape Infectious Disease Podcast)
Source: Medscape Infectious Disease Podcast - December 7, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
Assessing Zika Risk in International Travelers
Travelers need to be educated about their risks and decide which they are willing to accept. (Source: Medscape Infectious Disease Podcast)
Source: Medscape Infectious Disease Podcast - November 20, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
Antibiotic prescription course - an update
In July, The BMJ published an analysis article called “The Antibiotic Course has had it’s day” - a provocative title that turned out the garner a lot of debate on our site. The article said that the convention for the length of a course of antibiotics was set by Flemming, in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech - “If you use penicillin, use enough!” - and that the evidence base hasn’t moved on since then.
The article has had over 40 substantive responses, both agreeing and vehemently not - and so we thought it worth revisiting that argument, now the dust has settled.
Discussing that are Martin Llewellyn, profes...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - November 17, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
New Antibiotic Stewardship: Core Elements Guide From CDC
Hear about CDC ' s new antibiotic stewardship core elements guide for small and critical access hospitals. (Source: Medscape Infectious Disease Podcast)
Source: Medscape Infectious Disease Podcast - October 24, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
The accuracy of rapid diagnostic tests for detecting typhoid and paratyphoid (enteric) fever
Point-of-care rapid diagnostic tests which use a small amount of blood are available for infectious diseases such as malaria and HIV, and make an important contribution to patient management. Cochrane reviews of the accuracy of such tests have influenced WHO policy and, in May 2017, they were added to with a new Cochrane Diagnostic Test Accuracy review of rapid tests for typhoid and paratyphoid fevers. Lalith Wijedoru from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in UK tells us more in this podcast. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - October 23, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
The accuracy of rapid diagnostic tests for detecting typhoid and paratyphoid (enteric) fever
Point-of-care rapid diagnostic tests which use a small amount of blood are available for infectious diseases such as malaria and HIV, and make an important contribution to patient management. Cochrane Reviews of the accuracy of such tests have influenced World Health Organization (WHO) policy and, in May 2017, they were added to with a new Cochrane Diagnostic Test Accuracy review of rapid tests for typhoid and paratyphoid fevers. Lalith Wijedoru from the Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool in UK tells us more in this podcast. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - October 23, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts
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 2:54 Stents that resorb 3:52 First approved in Europe in 2011 4:50 Post marketing surveillance […] (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News - October 20, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elizabeth Tracey Johns Hopkins Medicine Tags: All Podcasts Geriatrics Health Insurance Heart And Vascular Infectious diseases PodMed Source Type: podcasts
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 ink but not cancer 2:32 Not cancer just a reaction 2:46 Mutations in the Zika […] (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News - October 6, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elizabeth Tracey Johns Hopkins Medicine Tags: All Podcasts Cancer Infectious diseases Patient Care PodMed Smoking Surgery Surgical Care Source Type: podcasts
