PodMed – Week of March 27, 2017

This week’s topics include ‘drip and ship,’ direct to consumer ads, steroid injections for low back pain, and cancer mutations.

Program notes:

0:37 Drip and ship

1:37 Best to closest stroke center

2:37 TPA helpful in expanding window

3:43 Mutations relative to cancer

4:43 Some inherited genes

5:43 So many people feel guilty

6:42 Steroid injections for low back pain

7:42 Would a second injection help?

8:22 Direct to consumer ads and testosterone

9:22 Even without having a blood test

10:49 End

Related blog: https://podblog.blogs.hopkinsmedicine.org/2017/03/24/random-cancers/