PodMed – Week of October 31, 2016
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This week’s topics include state reckoning of smoking and cancer, promoting breastfeeding, testing for familial hypercholesterolemia, and supplemental oxygen in moderate COPD. Program notes: 0:40 State of the Union with regard to smoking 1:40 40% in Arkansas 2:40 Ban smoking …
PodMed – Week of October 24, 2016
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This week’s topics include changing therapy with a genetic assessment of breast cancer, outcomes from hernia repair, a new agent for osteoporosis, and syncope and pulmonary embolism. Program notes: 0:30 Results of hernia repair 1:32 Either mesh, or routine surgery …
October 28, 2016 – Embracing Variation
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Anchor lead: Emerging technologies may help us understand why some people respond to medical treatments and some don’t, Elizabeth Tracey reports Trying to understand why some people respond to certain medicines or treatments and others don’t is a kind of …
October 27, 2016 – Chips and Medicine
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Anchor lead: How is the silicone chip industry joining forces with medicine? Elizabeth Tracey reports The same kind of technology that’s used in your cell phone may someday soon provide a range of mobile medical testing, that will benefit not …
October 26, 2016 – High Performing Hospitals
October 25, 2016 – Trial Results
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Anchor lead: Why aren’t researchers putting complete trial data on the NIH’s website? Elizabeth Tracey reports January 2017 marks the point of no tolerance for the NIH, which has warned researchers who receive federal funds that if they don’t post …