Category: Heart And Vascular
PodMed – Week of September 7, 2015
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This week’s topics include treatment of Chagas’ disease, do tired surgeons make more mistakes, sleep and common colds, and management of chronic sinusitis. Program notes: 1:17 Management of Chagas’ disease 2:17 Prospectively treated over 2800 patients 3:15 Prevention needed 3:37 …
PodMed- Week of August 31, 2015
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This week’s topics include screening for COPD, a new drug for hyposexuality in women, a combination medicine for CHF, and light to moderate alcohol consumption and cancer. Program notes: 0:42 Flibanserin 1:42 Unrelated to psychiatric conditions 2:42 Small number of …
August 24, 2015 – Cardiac Outcomes
PodMed – Week of August 17, 2015
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This week’s topics include trans fats, testosterone supplements and atherosclerosis, frozen versus fresh oocytes, and cardiac troponin measurement in people with diabetes and cardiac risk. Program notes: 0:35 Trans versus saturated fats 1:35 Trans fats increased risk for cardiovascular disease …
PodMed – Week of August 10, 2015
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This week’s topics include appropriate therapy for those with atrial fibrillation and have also had stents placed, an Ebola vaccine, helping blind people overcome insomnia, and the benefits of oral contraceptives. Program notes: 0:48 An effective Ebola vaccine 1:49 Ninety …
August 7, 2015 – Changing Heart Disease
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Anchor lead: Are recent successes with CPR sustainable? Elizabeth Tracey reports When bystanders initiate CPR during apparent heart attacks, more of those folks survive, recent studies show. While these results are very encouraging, Gordon Tomaselli, director of cardiology at Johns …