PodMed – Week of July 7, 2014

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This week’s topics include how often MDs recommend sunscreen, celiac disease and haplotype, steroids for spinal stenosis pain, and bone marrow transplantation for sickle cell disease.

Program notes:

1:00 What do physicians recommend re: sunscreen
2:01 0.07% of visits they mentioned it
3:01 Directed toward those in their 80s
3:21 Bone marrow transplantation for sickle cell
4:21 Myeloablative therapy
5:21 Very painful condition
6:09 Injection for spine pain
7:09 Lumbar stenosis and pain
8:12 Sometimes time is best therapy
8:33 Celiac disease in kids and genes
9:33 With one copy was 12% risk
10:36 End

Related blog: http://podblog.blogs.hopkinsmedicine.org/2014/07/07/injections-for-back-pain-not/