PodMed – Week of June 26, 2017

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 A1c

2:52 Glucose test strips expense

3:34 ADHD and driving

4:35 Over 2400 with ADHD

5:35 On medication?

6:30 Antibiotic use while in the hospital

7:30 20% of antibiotics not indicated

8:08 Obesity worldwide

9:08 Childhood obesity often increasing faster

10:37 End

Related blog: https://podblog.blogs.hopkinsmedicine.org/2017/06/23/adhd-and-driving/