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
Biomarkers - miracle or marketing?
The BMJ has been campaigning for an end to “too much medicine” - the pernicious effect of marketing on the range of tests and treatments that doctors offer patients - tests and treatments which are motivated by the financial reward to the system, than the health of the individual.
A new analysis on BMJ.com takes a look at what’s happe ning in the... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - July 18, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Biomarkers - miracle or marketing?
The BMJ has been campaigning for an end to “too much medicine” - the pernicious effect of marketing on the range of tests and treatments that doctors offer patients - tests and treatments which are motivated by the financial reward to the system, than the health of the individual.
A new analysis on BMJ.com takes a look at what’s happening in the the first part of that - testing. New biomarkers for disease, and new ways of monitoring, have the potential to diagnose disease more quickly, but is the hype backed by science?
Bjorn Hoffman professor of medical ethics at Norwegian University of Science and Technology and ...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - July 18, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Research Summaries: Productivity Orientation and the Consumption of Collectable Experiences
Today’s research summary is once again from the Journal of Consumer Research. You can read the original article here.
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In the last research summary we looked at the notion of extraordinary experiences, or experiences that are rare and infrequent, and found that young people prefer them to build their experiential CV. The authors of this article refine this concept to come up with a concept of collectible experiences: experiences that are rare and infrequent, as well as novel and extreme. An example may help clarify; while staying in an Ice hotel may always remain an extraordinary exp...
Source: The Mouse Trap - July 4, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: happiness Research Summaries Source Type: podcasts
Talking With Patients About NGS Testing: Marketing vs Reality
Experts on genomic testing in cancer discuss the marketing of NGS tests, and how they talk to their patients in light of the promise of ‘ precision medicine. ’ (Source: Medscape Oncology)
Source: Medscape Oncology - May 19, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
Advertising junk food to children
In the UK, junk food advertising is banned on children ’s TV - but manufactures are still able to target children in other ways. A recent report from the WHO "Tackling food marketing to children in a digital world", takes a look at the issue.
In this podcast we're joined by João Breda, programme manager for nutrition physical activity and obesit y at the regional office for Europe of the World Health Organisation, and Mimi Tatlow-Golden, lecturer in childhood studies and developmental psychology at the open university, and the lead author on the report.
Read the full report:http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - November 4, 2016 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Advertising junk food to children
In the UK, junk food advertising is banned on children ’s TV - but manufactures are still able to target children in other ways. A recent report from the WHO "Tackling food marketing to children in a digital world", takes a look at the issue.
In this podcast we're joined by João Breda, programme manager for nutrition physical activity and... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - November 4, 2016 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Advertising junk food to children
In the UK, junk food advertising is banned on children’s TV - but manufactures are still able to target children in other ways. A recent report from the WHO "Tackling food marketing to children in a digital world", takes a look at the issue.
In this podcast we're joined by João Breda, programme manager for nutrition physical activity and obesity at the regional office for Europe of the World Health Organisation, and Mimi Tatlow-Golden, lecturer in childhood studies and developmental psychology at the open university, and the lead author on the report.
Read the full report:
http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - November 4, 2016 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
#399: the politics of pink
For over thirty years, Breast Cancer Action — a nonprofit organization — has been seeking to achieve health justice for all women at risk of and living with breast cancer while brilliantly disrupting the landscape around advocacy, cause=marketing and corporate accountability. Joining us are Karuna Jaggar (Executive Director) and Alyssa Figueroa (Campaigns Coordinator) to discuss, among other things, pinkwashing and the not-so-subtle politics of breast cancer. Survivor Spotlight on young adult survivor Jimmy Rancich. (Source: The Stupid Cancer Show - Blog Talk Radio)
Source: The Stupid Cancer Show - Blog Talk Radio - October 18, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Stupid Cancer Show Tags: Health Source Type: podcasts
Ghostwriting redefined
Alastair Matheson, independant consultant and former ghostwriter, describes how the pharmaceutical publications industry seeks to legitimise ghostwriting by changing its definition while deflecting attention from wider marketing practices in academic publishing.
Read his full analysis:
http://www.bmj.com/content/354/bmj.i4578 (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - September 9, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
