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Anchor lead: Can you utilize techniques used by athletes to improve your own physical and mental performance? Elizabeth Tracey reports Integrating brain and body using training is key to superior athletic performance, research by Christopher Fetsch, a researcher in the …

March 26, 2018 – Athletic Performance and the Brain Read more »

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Anchor lead: Using surgery to remove blood clots in the brain can really help, Elizabeth Tracey reports Thrombectomy is the medical term for removing a blood clot surgically, with two studies reported recently at the International Stroke Conference showing that …

February 22, 2018 – Retrieving Clots Read more »

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This week’s topics include health and wealth, gun show sales and gun injury, management of epilepsy, and outcomes relative to robotic surgery. Program notes: 0:34 Today is last PodMed 1:19 Epilepsy management 2:19 Not a single type of surgery 3:16 …

PodMed – Week of October 30, 2017 Read more »

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This week’s topics include outcomes for payment, on- or off-pump CABG, cannabis for pain or PTSD, and the cognitive impact of a PCSK-9 inhibitor. Program notes: 0:41 Cannabis and pain or PTSD 1:41 May alleviate neuropathic pain in some 2:44 …

PodMed – Week of August 21, 2017 Read more »