Category: Patient Care
PodMed – Week of June 26, 2017
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This week’s topics include international obesity, a lack of benefit to self-monitoring glucose, driving and ADHD, and antibiotic use in the hospital and adverse events. Program notes: 0:50 Lack of benefit relative to glucose self-monitoring 1:55 No difference in hemoglobin …
May 24, 2017 – Abuse and Health
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Anchor lead: Abuse may complicate healthcare for women, Elizabeth Tracey reports Health consequences of abuse to women, whether that’s something that happened when they were children or adults, impacts on their management of chronic health problems. That’s according to Carmen …
May 10, 2017 – Precision Medicine and Drugs
May 9, 2017 – Loss of Competition
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Anchor lead: What accounts for huge increases in generic drug prices? Elizabeth Tracey reports Drug prices have been increasing astronomically, but many generic drug prices- which are usually much less expensive- have led the way, sometimes increasing by thousands of …
May 8, 2017 – Drug Prices
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Anchor lead: Drug price increases outstrip inflation, Elizabeth Tracey reports Chances are good that when you look at where your own healthcare spending dollars go, medications are number one or two. Redonda Miller, president of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, says …
May 4, 2017 – Dangers of Steroids
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Anchor lead: Steroid medications can cause of host of negative side effects, even with a single use, Elizabeth Tracey reports Blood clots, fractures, and infections in the blood- those are three of the complications that can arise when someone takes …