Category: Death and Dying
PodMed – Week of May 18, 2015
Podcast: Download (Duration: 10:39 — 14.6MB)
Subscribe: RSS
This week’s topics include measles vaccination benefits, smoking cessation incentives, the dangers of different testosterone delivery methods, and sonography for upper extremity DVT. Program notes: 0:30 Measles vaccination benefits 1:32 What accounts for reduced mortality? 2:31 Decreased other infectious disease …
February 2, 2015 – Sitting and Mortality
December 25, 2014 – Depression Help
Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:04 — 996.0KB)
Subscribe: RSS
Anchor lead: Simple interventions may reduce the toll of suicide, Elizabeth Tracey reports Almost 40,000 people die each year in the United States alone from suicide, with many times that number making an attempt. Michael Klag, dean of the Johns …
PodMed – Week of November 17, 2014
November 3, 2014 – A Better End
Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:05 — 1,022.1KB)
Subscribe: RSS
Anchor lead: Can a book by Maryland delegate Dan Morehaim help inform your end of life choices? Elizabeth Tracey reports Representative Dan Morehaim, an emergency medicine physician and faculty member at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, strives …