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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 …

PodMed – Week of May 18, 2015 Read more »

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Anchor lead:  Can a simple treatment reduce a common hospital-acquired infection? Elizabeth Tracey reports Spores of clostridium difficile, an organism often responsible for diarrhea and sometimes death of hospitalized people, may be effective in preventing reccurence of the illness, a …

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This week’s topics include Clostridium difficile treatment, cardiovascular risk factors for adolescents, lariat device for atrial fibrillation, and digoxin and mortality. Program notes: 0:40 Possible treatment for C.dif 1:40 Can we use a different strain to colonize? 2:40 Immediately after …

PodMed – Week of May 11, 2015 Read more »