PodMed – Week of May 8, 2017

This week’s topics include lowering cholesterol and outcomes, a new agent for ulcerative colitis, handgun purchases after mass shooting events, and bystander CPR and long term outcomes.

Program notes:

0:31 Handgun purchases after mass shootings

1:31 Tripled over time period

2:31 Constraints on gun research

2:45 Bystander CPR and use of defibrillators

3:45 More likely to be alive one year later

4:32 PCSK-9 and cardiovascular outcomes

5:32 27,000 patients

6:33 Lower we get it the better

7:21 New agent for ulcerative colitis

8:21 Twice as effective at inducing remission

9:21 Will become part of the standard therapy

10:09 End

Related blog: https://podblog.blogs.hopkinsmedicine.org/2017/05/05/pcsk-9-and-cardiovascular-outcomes/