PodMed – Week of July 27, 2015

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This week’s topics include bystander CPR impact, Coumadin and an antibiotic, childhood poverty and brain development, and durable weight loss in obesity.

Program notes:

0:38 Kids raised in poverty and brain development
1:38 About a fourth lived near federal poverty level
2:38 Need early intervention
2:50 Bystander CPR impact
3:50 Combination almost doubled
4:50 We have covered additional studies on this
5:18 Can weight loss be achieved?
6:18 Estimated probability of obtaining normal weight
7:18 Community-based weight intervention not working
7:37 Coumadin and dicloxacillin
8:33 Makes Coumadin a less effective blood thinner
10:00 End

Related blog:http://podblog.blogs.hopkinsmedicine.org/2015/07/24/poverty-and-brain-development/