PodMed – Week of March 9, 2015 – Johns Hopkins Medicine Podcasts

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This week's topics include the impact of cleaner air on lung development, dangers of testosterone, drugs for coping with shift work, and anti anxiety meds before surgery.

Program notes:

0:34 Testosterone dangers
1:32 Observational studies suggest risk
2:31 Strict criteria to diagnose
3:02 Drugs for shift work
4:03 Nine trials with melatonin
5:02 Sustained working shift
6:00 Antianxiety meds before surgery
7:01 Did not improve patient satisfaction
8:02 Lung development and air pollution
9:02 Three measurements over years
10:36 End