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April 1, 2015 – Cancer at Work
March 31, 2015 – Two Pathways
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Anchor lead: Can finding a second pathway to heart failure help patients? Elizabeth Tracey reports Congestive heart failure kills hundreds of thousands of people each year, largely by one of two aberrant cellular pathways. While the first has been known …
March 30, 2015 – PDE 9
PodMed – Week of March 23, 2015
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This week’s topics include stents versus CABG, screening people without symptoms for heart disease, agreement about breast biopsies, and imaging for low back pain in older folks. Program notes: 0:47 CABG versus stents 1:49 Second generation drug-eluting stents 2:47 Stents …
March 27, 2015 – Outcome Measures
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Anchor lead: How should you compare doctors and hospitals? Elizabeth Tracey reports Do physicians game the system when measures such as 30 day mortality are used to grade their performance, as a recent report suggests? Joseph Califano, a head and …
March 26, 2015 – Premedication in Elderly
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Anchor lead: Should premedication before surgery be used in elderly people? Elizabeth Tracey reports When older people undergo surgery, delirium sometimes results, with delayed or sometimes permanently impaired cognitive recovery. Can using medicines to alleviate anxiety contribute, as a recent …