Category: Health Topics
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PodMed – Week of March 27, 2017
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This week’s topics include ‘drip and ship,’ direct to consumer ads, steroid injections for low back pain, and cancer mutations. Program notes: 0:37 Drip and ship 1:37 Best to closest stroke center 2:37 TPA helpful in expanding window 3:43 Mutations …
March 24, 2017 – Drug-Brain Interactions
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Anchor lead: When opioids are combined with another drug, the chances of overdose increase, Elizabeth Tracey reports Opioid overdose is epidemic, and now a study in the British Medical Journal shows that when these drugs are taken with benzodiazapines such …
March 23, 2017 – Brain Damage and Medicines
March 22, 2017 – Brain Meds
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Anchor lead: Many older Americans are taking three or more medicines that impact the brain, Elizabeth Tracey reports Opioids, sleep medicines, medicines for psychiatric conditions. The number of retired persons and older who are taking at least three such medicines …
March 21, 2017 – Knee Arthritis
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Anchor lead: Can an internet-based intervention help manage knee pain? Elizabeth Tracey reports Therapy for knee pain due to osteoarthritis was effectively delivered using a web-based approach, a recent study found. Mike Klag, dean of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School …
March 20, 2017 – Medical Apps
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Anchor lead: The federal government is stepping into regulation of medical apps, Elizabeth Tracey reports Do you have a medical app on your smart phone? Measuring how many steps you take, how you’re sleeping, what you’re eating? Now federal agencies …