10 Rita Redberg
This week influential Editor-in-Chief of JAMA Internal Medicine Dr Rita Redberg joins Ray for a wide ranging conversation on all things health. A Professor at the University of California San Francisco and high profile contributor to The Washington Post and New York Times, Rita is also a practising cardiologist who loves to see patients. She says that ‘being a doctor is really a privilege’. Together, Ray and Rita canvas many topics including shared decision making between doctors and patients, the tricky territory of medical device approvals, the controversy surrounding both statins and CT scans, and the implications ...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - July 12, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts

Wealth Shock and Mortality, Atorvastatin for PCI, BP Targets in Diabetes, Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, and more
Editor's Summary by Edward H. Livingston, MD, Deputy Editor of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, for the April 3, 2018, issue (Source: JAMA: This Week's Audio Commentary)
Source: JAMA: This Week's Audio Commentary - April 3, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and The JAMA Network Source Type: podcasts

Jan 19, 2018 This Week in Cardiology
MRI in patients with cardiac devices, bariatric surgery, statins, the LifeVest wearable defibrillator, and spontaneous coronary dissection are the topics discussed in this week ' s podcast. (Source: Medscape Cardiology Podcast)
Source: Medscape Cardiology Podcast - January 19, 2018 Category: Cardiology Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts

Oct 27 Cardiology News
Statins tied to diabetes risk and reduced bacterial infections, a novel use for hs-troponin, mitral-regurgitation management, and His-bundle pacing are reviewed in this week ' s podcast. (Source: Medscape Cardiology Podcast)
Source: Medscape Cardiology Podcast - October 27, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts

Aug 11 Cardiology News
Statins after stroke, MI definition, dietary sodium, gene editing, and a potential new way to image coronaries are the topics discussed by Dr John Mandrola in this week ' s podcast. (Source: Medscape Cardiology Podcast)
Source: Medscape Cardiology Podcast - August 11, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts

Kathiresan and Topol on Genomics of Heart Disease
Eric Topol speaks with Sekar Kathiresan about cardiovascular genomics, why ' DNA isn ' t destiny, ' and why we still have heart attacks in spite of statins. (Source: Medscape Cardiology Podcast)
Source: Medscape Cardiology Podcast - August 2, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts

PodMed – Week of July 31, 2017
This week’s topics include football and CTE, discontinuing statins, intramuscular HIV meds, and long term risks of stroke and TIA. Program notes: 0:32 Stroke and TIA risk 1:35 Adverse outcomes five years later 2:35 Be aggressive about managing risk 3:24 Statin discontinuation risk 4:24 Those who continued 12% had a stroke 5:25 Driven by internet […] (Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News)
Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine Weekly Health News - July 28, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elizabeth Tracey Johns Hopkins Medicine Tags: All Podcasts Chronic Disease HIV Infectious diseases Nervous System Disorders Neurology And Neurosurgery PodMed Source Type: podcasts

Jul 28 Cardiology News
Obstructive sleep apnea, changes in diet, AF ablation, statin rechallenge, and prediabetes are covered in this week ' s podcast. (Source: Medscape Cardiology Podcast)
Source: Medscape Cardiology Podcast - July 28, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts

Interventions to improve people's drug-taking behaviour with lipid-lowering drugs
Statins are very widely prescribed to lower cholesterol and it ’s important to know the best ways to help patients to take them. In an updated Cochrane Review from December 2016, Mieke van Driel from the University of Queensland in Australia examines the evidence, and she tells us more in this podcast. (Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library)
Source: Podcasts from The Cochrane Library - June 21, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cochrane Source Type: podcasts

Jun 16 Cardiology News
Bleeding risk of ASA in the elderly, stopping statins, ADA wrap-up, and the importance of education level for CV health are the topics discussed by Dr John Mandrola in this week ' s podcast (Source: Medscape Cardiology Podcast)
Source: Medscape Cardiology Podcast - June 16, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts