PodMed – Week of January 11, 2016
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This week’s topics include genetic risk of cancer, influencing kids’ food choices, the true value of cancer screening, and probiotics and type 1 diabetes. Program notes: 0:44 Number of cases of cancer due to inheritance 1:45 Follow huge population of …
PodMed – Week of January 4, 2016
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This week’s topics include low value screening tests, planned at home births, brain death, and opioid prescription after overdose. Program notes: 0:38 Brain death nationally 1:40 Every hospital that would declare brain death 2:39 Family advocates 3:01 Women who deliver …
PodMed – Week of December 28, 2015
January 1, 2016 – Remote Consult
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Anchor lead: Video links are becoming more practical for medical visits, Elizabeth Tracey reports Video links via computer or smartphone are increasingly used for consults with physicians. Dierdre Johnston, a psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins, describes how much patients like a …
December 31, 2015 – No Worries
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Anchor lead: A new grading system should reduce fears for many men with prostate cancer, Elizabeth Tracey reports Among the many prognostic indicators for prostate cancer is the Gleason score, used for decades by pathologists to identify how advanced a …