Johns Hopkins PodMed - Weekly Health News Podcast

Statin use and gallstones, simpler assessment of blood lipids, mood on low-fat or low-carb diets, and kidney artery blockage treatment.

Overuse of Pap smears, masks for preventing flu, off pump bypass surgery, and masks for flu transmission prevention.

Risks of antipsychotic medications in kids, aging and cardiovascular fitness, staving off type 2 diabetes and insulin regimens in those who already have type 2 diabetes.

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This week's topics include an update on CPR, chocolate and heart disease, tamoxifen and breast cancer, and a new anticoagulant medication for people with atrial fibrillation.

This week's topics include ambulatory monitoring of blood pressure, changes in medication following hospitalization, the power of food to lower cholesterol, and use of an antibiotic in COPD.

This week's topics include surgery for hip fractures and the impact of delay, coronary artery calcium scanning efficacy, emergence of resistant malaria, and a new medication for congestive heart failure.

This week's topics include soy and menopausal symptoms, geographic variations in angiography, phlebotomy and anemia in those with heart disease, and ten year results from deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease.

This week's topics include a new way to assess newborns for heart problems, texting to improve malaria care in Africa, a disappointing report about hospitalists, and guidelines for managing COPD.

This week's topics include HIV treatment in Uganda, exercise and cognitive decline, calorie content in restaurant foods, and diet and diverticulitis.

This week's topics include the impact of maternal smoking, sodium and potassium and death, placebos and asthma management, and family history of cancer over time.

This week's topics include dangers of rural hospitals, cardiac events due to a smoking cessation drug, sudden cardiac death and lifestyle factors in women, and inappropriate stent placement.

This week’s topics include use of CT to prevent lung cancer death, sunscreens and melanoma, text messaging and smoking cessation, and type 1 diabetes and congestive heart failure.

This week’s topics include possible dangers of high dose statins, chasing down the E. coli epidemic, door in door out times, and multiple blood pressure measurements.

This week’s topics include malpractice in inpatient and outpatient settings, parental attitudes toward childhood vaccines, ambulance drive-bys, and TV and mortality.

This week’s topics include screening for ovarian cancer, a new agent to prevent breast cancer in high risk women, remote management of treatment for hepatitis C, and mentholated cigarettes.

This week’s topics include sports and energy drinks in kids, sleep duration and obesity in children, two common drugs and their association with diabetes, and niacin and heart disease.

This week’s topics include a lack of benefit in coronary CT screening, aspirin versus a new agent in stroke prevention, lung remodeling in asthma and locomotion training after stroke.

This week’s topics include third agents in diabetes treatment, the utility of telemedicine, treating one partner who is HIV positive to prevent transmission, and PPI or surgery for GERD.

This week’s topics include use of medical therapy for people with heart disease, risk of NSAIDs in those who’ve had a heart attack, overuse of colonoscopy, and physician attitudes toward continuing medical education (CME).

This week’s topics include infants and supplements, asthma medications, bisphosphonates and fracture risk, and dietary salt.

This week’s topics include armadillos and leprosy, LAM treatment, IQ testing, and fatty liver disease in kids.

This week’s topics include kids who fail antiretroviral therapy, when such therapy should be started, new criteria for Alzheimer’s disease, and the significance of triglycerides.

This week’s topics include shedding of herpes viruses even when no lesions are present, treating nerve pain related to diabetes, physicians recommending one treatment to patients but another to themselves, and risks of acne treatment with antibiotics.

This week’s topics include repairing the heart through the skin, patient management of blood thinners, overdoses due to opioids, and whether PSA should be tested for at all.

This week’s topics include the dangers of social media, a new drug for hepatitis C, managing obesity in frail elderly people, and airport scanner risk.

This week’s topics include use of fibrates in the US and Canada, child safety seats, diabetes medications, and the risks of exercise and sex.

This week’s topics include high dose anticlotting drugs don’t help, bypass versus stent placement and quality of life issues, a new virus in China, and treating inner city kids with asthma.

This week’s topics include cannabis and psychosis, lack of benefit with PSA velocity, stress, infertility and pregnancy, and cause-specific death and diabetes.

This week’s topics include steroids for nasal polyps, Facebook and TB, making medical decisions for others, and BMI for Asians.

Driving after a stroke, falls from cribs, cell phones and brain activity, and life on the farm and childhood asthma.

Using asthma medications only when needed in teenagers, the impact of fiber on mortality, FDA oversight of devices, and obesity, knee arthritis and quality of life.

implantable monitor for congestive heart failure, in utero surgery for one form of spina bifida, more evidence that axillary node dissection may not be necessary, and response to vaccination in infants of HIV infected moms.

Evaluation of low back pain, new antibiotic for Clostridium difficile infection, the federal dietary guidelines, and vaccination for HPV in males.

Smoking and breast cancer, a brief intervention for insomnia, the benefits of stroke centers, and a suction device and CPR.

Antidepressant to manage hot flashes, the natural history of coronary artery disease, a new imaging technique for diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease, and storytelling to improve blood pressure control.

Treating middle ear infections in kids, a new way to test for Down syndrome, two medications for initial treatment of high blood pressure, and a lack of evidence for ‘expert’ recommendations.

Treatment of mild congestive heart failure, who is getting implanted defibrillators, antibiotic treatment for irritable bowel syndrome, and walking assessment for elderly.

Some good fats, preventing falls in older adults, Echinacea for colds, and exercise and weight gain in middle life.

Adrenal masses found incidentally, pain relievers in the elderly, when to take thyroid medication, and promoting colorectal cancer screening.

Sex in older men, aspirin and cancer prevention, new food allergy guidelines, and aspirin and screening for colorectal cancer.

Routine HIV testing, variations in dosing in kid’s OTC medications, vitamin D and calcium recommendations from the Institute of Medicine, and mitochondria defects and autism.

Best type of diet for weight maintenance, preventing HIV infection, fructose and gout in women, and dialysis 6 times per week.

High caffeine/alcohol beverages, fish oil and the heart, nerve destruction technique in controlling high blood pressure, and leaving prescriptions at the pharmacy.

Vick’s VapoRub, PPIs, pregnancy and Plavix, supervised exercise and diabetes, and vitamin E and stroke.

Pain at the end of life in elderly people, a lack of benefit with implanted defibrillators, screening adolescents for depression, and fish oil and Alzheimer’s.

Who responds to the anticlotting drug clopidogrel, the dangers of trying to kick an opiate drug habit, how to reduce your risk of colorectal cancer, and controlling high blood pressure with a visit to the barber.

Home monitoring for blood thinning, risks of hormone replacement therapy, dental procedures and cardiovascular events, and the upside of stressful life events.

Cancer screening for adult survivors of childhood cancer, screening people with HIV for cancer, advanced radiology tests in the ED, and maternal flu vaccination and benefits for the infant.

Dangers of low blood sugar, sleep and weight loss, public health effects of mass media, and compression only CPR.